Discriminatory Laws & Practices Against Palestinians

http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-Discriminatory-Law-Database

Click to access New_Discriminatory_Laws.pdf

Click to access Adalah_The_Inequality_Report_March_2011.pdf

The Law of Return is a discriminatory law that gives one racial/religious group precedence over all others in immigration. No matter what ties they have to the land. Jewish people are not the only native population to the land, and thus any comparison with the jus sanguinis laws of the other countries are false.

The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law bars Israel’s subjects from West Bank attaining citizenship, even if they have been born in Israel proper or have relatives there.

The Jewish National Fund is a discriminatory organization ensuring that Jews will have a dispropotionate amount of ownership of the land in Israel, supported by the government. If Jewish National Fund gives land to an Arab (which it does rarely) the government has to give the exact same amount of land back to it. This has ensured that Arab ownership of Israel’s land is only three percent.

Arab citizens of Israel are not permitted to start settlements on the West Bank or living in already existing settlements if the settlement council doesn’t tolerate Arabs. Arab subjects of Israel in West Bank have no rights at all.

70,000 Bedouin inhabitants of Israel live in villages not recognized by the government, despite a majority of these villages having been there even before there was an Israel. As a result, they are barred from participating in municipal politics, and recieve little, if any water, electricity or sewage services. The government has repeatedly sent in planes to spray Bedouin crops with herbicides, and demolished Mosques in Negev.

The Israeli government has a long-standing policy of denying state recognition to holy places that aren’t Jewish.

The government spends far less the amount of money per every Arab student then it does per every Jewish Student. Human Rights Watch has found systematic discrimination in the number, quality and condition of the buildings, classroom sizes, provision of teaching resources and government funding.

Few Jews learn even basic Arabic, whereas Arab children are required to learn Hebrew to advanced level. Despite both ostensibly being official languages of the state.

University courses in Israel are in Hebrew or English. Arab citizens hold fewer then 60 of Israel’s 5000 university faculty positions.

It’s clear from the bare makeup of Knesset that Arabs are not equally represented in the government. 20% of the population is represented by 5.3% of active Knesset members, who have been periodically banned by the government from taking part in legislation or elections.

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