Articles and Commentaries

1. Arab Collective Rights in Israel

A. The Right to Self Determination

Ayelet Harel-Shalev, "The Geopolitics of Minority Rights and Civil Rights in Nation-States: Lessons from the Republic of Macedonia," Volume 78, January 2011.

Iris Marion Young, "Self-Determination as Non-Domination: Ideals Applied to Palestine/Israel," Volume 12, April 2005.

Amal Jamal, "On the Morality of Arab Collective Rights in Israel," Volume 12, April 2005.

Hassan Jabareen, "Collective Rights and Reconciliation in the Constitutional Process: The Case of Israel," Volume 12, April 2005.

B. Political Participation

Yash Ghai, "Ethnic Conflicts and Power Sharing," Volume 13, May 2005.

Shane Kelleher, "Minority Veto Rights in Power Sharing Systems: Lessons from Macedonia, Northern Ireland and Belgium," Volume 13, May 2005.

C. Education Rights

Sawsan Zaher, "The Prohibition on Teaching the Nakba in the Arab Education System in Israel," Volume 74, September 2010

Khaled Abu Asbeh, "Arab Education in Israel: Between the Discourse of Struggling Identity and Low Achievement," Volume 63, August 2009

The Follow-Up Committee on Arab Education - Israel, "A Snapshot of the Arab Education System in Israel," Volume 18, September 2005.[Commentary]

Gadeer Nicola, "The Limitations on the Right to Education before the Supreme Court," Volume 5, September 2004.

Yoav Peled, "The 100 Terms Program: A Rawlsian Critique," Volume 27, July - August 2006.

As'ad Ghanem, "Identity and Belonging," Volume 27, July - August 2006. [On the 100 Terms Program]

Dori Spivak, "Case Review: Unrecognized Education System," Volume 5, September 2004.

Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, "Women, Education and the Policy of Control," Volume 8, December 2004. [Paper from Adalah's conference]

Ismael Abu-Saad, "Education as a Tool of Expulsion from the Unrecognized Villages," Volume 8, December 2004. [Paper from Adalah's conference]

Sharif Hamadeh, "One Hand Clapping: Applauding Tolerance and Pluralism in Israeli Academia," Volume 13, May 2005. [Commentary]

Mikhal Barak, "Civic Education in Israel," Volume 18, September 2005.

Sawsan Zaher, "Literacy as Freedom," Volume 18, September 2005.

Helen Murray, "Education is Freedom," Volume 18, September 2005. [Commentary on Birzeit University's campaign]

Sarah Ozacky - Lazar, "The Cultural and Educational Collective Rights of Arabs in Israel", Volume 30, November 2006.

D. Language Rights

Ala Mahajna, "The Arabic Language and the Indigenity of the Arabs in Israel," Volume 50, July 2008

Ayelet Harel-Shelav, "Arabic as a Minority Language in Israel: A Comparative Perspective," Volume 14, June 2005.

Muhammad Amara, "The Vitality of the Arabic Language in Israel from a Sociolinguistic Perspective," Volume 29, October 2006.

Abeer Baker, "Minorities, Law and the Media: The Arab Minority in the Israeli Media," Volume 30, November 2006.

Shane Kelleher, "Defending Minority Language Rights in Quebec and Latvia,"
Volume 14, June 2005.

Thomas Jeffrey Miley, "The Constitutional Politics of Language Policy in Catalonia, Spain," Volume 29, October 2006.

2. Law, Justice and Discrimination Policy

A. The State's Policy

Hassan Jabareen, "The Right Context of the Knesset's Laws," Volume 87, November 2011

Rawyah Handalko, "Sticker No. 5: Security Inspections, Racial Profiling, and the Violation of the Basic Rights of Arab Citizens of Israel," Volume 87, November 2011

Oren Yiftachel and Thabet Abu Ras, A Shared Struggle for Housing in the Naqab. Volume 84, July- August 2011

Haneen Naamnih, "Mazuz and Arab Citizens of Israel," Volume 69, February 2010.

Ameer Makhoul, "Akka (Acre) and Beirut – A Relationship Beyond Israeli Law," Volume 71, April 2010.

Antwan Shalhat, "Do We Have the 'Luxury' Not To Seek Legal Achievements, No Matter What?" Volume 71, April 2010.

Marzuq Halabi, "The 'Hlehel' Case: The open door in Tel Aviv is closed in Beirut!" Volume 71, April 2010.

Alaa Mahajna, "Loyalty to the Values of Zionism as a Condition for Acceptance to Community Settlements in Israel," Volume 67, December 2009.

Mustafa Shala'ta and Su'ad Dia, "Disabled Palestinians in Israel: Between Discrimination and Social Exclusion," Volume 67, December 2009.

Haneen Naamnih, "Prohibiting Contact with Enemy Aliens: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel," Volume 66, November 2009

Sawsan Zaher, "On Institutional Discrimination in the Implementation of Israeli Supreme Court Decisions," Volume 63, August 2009

Hassan Jabareen, "The Israeli Regime of Hafradah (Separation in English and Apartheid in Afrikaans)," Volume 47, April 2008

Hassan Jabareen, "Comments on the Unreasonableness of the Attorney General's 'Reasonable Discrimination Policy,'" Volume 1, May 2004.

Ramzi Suleiman, "From Hegemony to Partnership," Volume 14, June 2005. [Commentary]

B. The Courts' Role in Making Justice

Marwan Dalal, "Bridging Between Law, Life and Assassinations," Volume 32, January 2007.

"Reflections on South Africa," Volume 54, November 2008

Haneen Naamnih, "Anti-Arab Legislation," Volume 50, July 2008

Jamileh Asleh, "South Africa: Its Blackness is Lily-White," Volume 48, May 2008

Hassan Jabareen, "Ignoring the Other," Volume 14, June 2005 (Book Review of Barak).  

Geoff Budlender, "South Africa: Law and the Search for Justice," Volume 2, June 2004.

3. Constitutionalism

"Interview with Rene Antezana on a New Constitution for Bolivia: Rights Protections for Native Peoples 'Los Pueblos Originarios'," conducted by Rana Asali, Volume 57, February 2009

"Interview with Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal on the Publication of "The Democratic Constitution" by Adalah," Volume 34, March 2007

Dr. As'ad Ghanem, "The Democratic Constitution-The Question of the Occupation and Bi-Nationalism," Volume 34, March 2007

Dr. Thabet Abu Ras, "The Democratic Constitution: The Refugees and the Principle of Corrective Justice," Volume 34, March 2007

Ilan Saban, The "Democratic Constitution": Justified Aims Overshadowed by the Bi-National Claim," Volume 34, March 2007

Nadim N. Rouhana, "'Constitution by Consensus': By Whose Consensus?" Volume 7, November 2004.

Amir Avramovitz, "Constitution by Consensus," Including Certainly the Consensus of the Arab Minority in Israel: Response to the Article "Constitution by Consensus': By Whose Consensus?" by Nadim N. Rouhana, Volume 8, November 2004.

Nadim Rouhana, "The Jewish Institute for Ethnic Democracy: A Response to the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)," Volume 9, January 2005.

Jonathan Cook, "Israeli Constitutional Committee Faces Double Bind," Volume 7, November 2004.

Marwan Dwairy, "Pluralism, Nationalism and the Constitution: Internal and External Dimensions," Volume 7, November 2004.

Baruch Kimmerling, "Constitution or Prostitution?" Volume 9, January 2005.

Aeyal Gross, "A Constitution for Israel: With Whose Consent and at Whose Expense?" Volume 9, January 2005.

Z. M. Yacoob, "Issues and Debates in the South African Constitutional Negotiations in the Context of the Apartheid Evil and the Struggle for Democracy," Volume 1, May 2004.

4. Identities Jurisprudence and Politics

Hassan Jabareen, "The Legal Saga of Abu Nabka," Volume 60, May 2009

Sharif Hamadeh, "From the Nakba to Absurdistan," Volume 48, May 2008

Nimer Sultany, "Towards Defetishing 1967: Preliminary Thoughts on the Subject and the Concrete," Volume 37, June 2007

Ilan Saban, "Identities, Jurisprudence and Politics: Interim Appraisal and Words for the Future," Volume 31, December 2006.

Ramzi Suleiman, "On Identities, Jurisprudence and Politics," Volume 31, December 2006.

Hassan Jabareen, "A Decade of Adalah: On the Recognition of "National Identities" and "Civil Equality" in Law, Volume 32, January 2007

Ruth Gavison, "The Conflict Cannot Be Ignored," Volume 32, January 2007

5. Cause Lawyering and Litigating Minority Rights

Hassan Jabareen, "Discrimination is the Solution," Volume 70, March 2010.

Hassan Jabareen, "Transnational Lawyering and Legal Resistance in National Courts: Palestinian Cases before the Israeli Supreme Court," Volume 13 (1) Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (2010), p. 239

Neta Ziv, "Hanging by the Cloak: Advocates for Social Change in Israel - Between the Legal and the Political," Volume 2, June 2004.

Yuval Elbashan, "And Justice to All: On Community Lawyering," Volume 2, June 2004.

Stephen Wizner, "Litigation and Minority Rights," Volume 10, February 2005.

Gad Barzilai, "The Evasive Facets of Law: Litigation as Collective Action," Volume 10, February 2005.

6. Citizenship: Family Unification

Hassan Jabareen and Sawsan Zaher, "The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case," Volume 89, January 2012.

Sawsan Zaher, "Paths to Citizenship in the State of Israel," Volume 48, May 2008

Chaim Gans, "Unification of Palestinian Families in the Jewish State," Volume 10, February 2005. [Commentary]

Shalom (Shuli) Dichter, "Citizenship in Great Danger: A Proposed Discussion," Volume 15, July 2005. [Commentary]

Sawsan Zaher, "When the Right to Family Life Clashes with the Right to a United Family," Volume 20, November 2005. [Polygamy]

Orna Kohn, "Initial Comments on the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law," Volume 25, May 2006.

Roundtable Discussion of the Supreme Court's Decision on Nationality and Entry into Israel Law, June 2006: Jamil Dakwar, Ilan Saban, Nimer Sultany,

Sawsan Zaher, "Gender and Nationalism in Court Rulings: Family Unification Decisions Rendered by Women Supreme Court Justices," Volume 26, June 2006.

Aeyal Gross, "'The Philosophers and Intellectuals Can Say Whatever They Say'," Volume 26, June 2006.

Brad Rubin, "Breaking Away from the Israeli Model," Volume 26, June 2006.

7. Land and Planning Rights

A. General

Haneen Naamnih and Suhad Bishara, "The Law of the Promised Land 2011: Between Absentees and Foreigners". Adalah's Newsletter, Volume 82, May 2011.

Haneen Naamnih, The Two Sides of Return: Palestine and the Refugees, Volume 79, February 2011

Suhad Bishara, "From Plunder to Plunder: Israel and the Property of the Palestinian Refugees," Volume 64, September 2009

Salah Muhsin, "Modern Displacement of Palestinians in Yaffa," Volume 48, May 2008

Hana Hamdan, "The status of The Palestinian Minority in the Israeli Planning System," Volume 34, March 2007

Hana Hamdan and Yosef Jabareen, "A Proposal for Suitable Representation of the Arab Minority in Israel's National Planning System," Volume 23, March 2006.

Suhad Bishara, "On Class and Nationality in Housing Rights," Volume 11, March 2005.

Sherene Seikaly, "The Day After," Volume 13, May 2005. [Commentary]

B. Land and Planning in the Naqab

Thabet Abu Ras and Oren Yiftachel, "Four Reasons to Reject the 'Prawer Plan'," Volume 89, January 2012.

Thabet Abu Ras, "The Arab Bedouin in the Unrecognized Villages in the Naqab: Between the Hammer of Prawer and the Anvil of Goldberg". Volume 81, April 2011

Ala Mahajneh, "Defend Rights as Well as Sites: Israel's Attempt to Evict Arab Bedouin from their Land in the Naqab (Negev)," Volume 66, November 2009

"The Unrecognized" an Adalah film discussing the Arab Bedouin in the Naqab, Volume 34, March 2007

Morad el-Sana, "The Official Data on the Absent-Present Arab Bedouin," Volume 14, June 2005. [Commentary]

Nili Baruch, "Spacial Inequality in the Allocation of Municipal Resources," Volume 8, December 2004. [Paper from Adalah's conference]

Hana Hamdan, "The Policy of Settlement and "Spatial Judaization" in the Naqab," Volume 11, March 2005.

Sawsan Zaher, "The Right of Arab Bedouin Women to Adequate Housing and Accommodation," Volume 23, March 2006.

Oren Yiftachel, "Inappropriate and Unjust: Planning for Private Ranches in the Naqab," Volume 24, April 2006.

Thabet Abu Ras, "Land Disputes in Israel: The Case of the Bedouin of the Naqab," Volume 24, April 2006.

Adel Badir, "Hundreds of Arab Bedouin are without Water, Because of Political Considerations," Volume 30, November 2006.

C. Israel Land Reform

Suhad Bishara and Hana Hamdan, "Position Paper - On the Privatization of the Lands of the Settlements on the Golan Heights and in East Jerusalem," Volume 63, August 2009

Suhad Bishara and Hana Hamdan, "Position Paper - Critique of the Draft Bill: Israel Land Administration Law (Amendment No. 7) 2009," Volume 62, July 2009

Yosef Rafiq Jabareen, "The Geo-Political and Spatial Implications of the New Israel Land Administration Law on the Palestinians," Volume 62, July 2009

8. Arab Women's Rights

Adalah Attorney Sawsan Zaher, "Mandatory Pensions Agreement Discriminates against the Arab Minority". Volume 83, June 2011

Rawia Abu Rabia, "Excluded, Against their Will: Arab Bedouin Women and the Phenomenon of Polygamy in the Naqab," Volume 55, December 2008

Abeer Baker, "On Gender, Nationalism and Universalism: The Legal Issue of Representation for Women in Israel," Volume 20, November 2005.

Samar Khamis, "Twofold Discrimination: The Status of the Arab Woman as an Individual and as a Member of a National Collective Struggling for its Rights," Volume 20, November 2005.

9. Prisoners / Detainees

Majd Bader, secret prisot For "UFOs". Volume 80, March 2011

Grietje Baars, "Palestinian Political Prisoners: Unfair Game for Israel's Persecution," Volume 68, January 2010

"Interview with Attorney Lea Tsemel," conducted by Salah Mohsen, Volume 61, June 2009

Lisa Hajjar, "Torture American-Style," Volume 61, June 2009

Anat Matar, "Israel's Internal Matter: The Palestinian Prisoners of Zion," Volume 59, April 2009

Abeer Baker, "Dilemmas of Representation in Defending the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners," Volume 59, April 2009

Hadas Ziv and Ze'ev Weiner, "Take the Physicians out of the System and it Will Cease to Exist," Volume 49, June 2008

Jamil Dakwar, "Observations on Guantanamo's Kafkaesque System of Justice," Volume 49, June 2008

Abeer Baker, "Two Policies for Two Peoples," Volume 49, June 2008

"The Foreign Agent, the Punishment and the Prison," Adalah's Media Coordinator Amal Ziadah interviews former political prisoner Areej Shahbari, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth, Volume 35, April 2007

Anat Matar, "Objects or Subjects? Theoretical Comments on the De-Politicization of the Issue," Volume 35, April 2007

Felicia Langer, "The Experience of the Past Through the Mirror of the Present: Israel and the Human Rights of the Palestinians," Volume 13, May 2005 (Delivered at Adalah Study Day on the 13.5.05)

Smadar Ben Natan, "The Unbelievable Lightness of False Confessions," Volume 4, August 2004.

Marwan Dalal, "Politics of Security in the Islamic Movement Trial," Volume 9, January 2005. [Commentary]

Abeer Baker, "Lawyers under Suspicion," Volume 10, February 2005. [Commentary]

Abeer Baker, "Ideological Legislation in the Name of 'Security'," Volume 19, October 2005.

Walid Daka, "Security Prisoners or Political Prisoners?" Volume 24, April 2006. [Commentary]

10. October 2000

A. Conference on October 2000

1. Keynote Address

Peter Madden, "The Northern Ireland Experience", Volume 6, October 2004.

2. Panel: Protest and the Or Commission

Yoav Peled, "The Or Commission Compared to the U.S Kerner Commission", Volume 6, October 2004.

Ahmed Sa'adi, "The Concept of Protest and its Representation by the Or Commission," Volume 6, October 2004.

Marwan Dalal, "Comments on the Tense Dialogue between Truth and Power," Volume 6, October 2004.

B. Mahash Report

Haneen Naamnih, "Shendar, Shraga and the Rule of Law," Volume 36, May 2007

Adalah's Initial Analysis of the Report of the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash"). Volume 17, September 2005.

The Response of the Committee of the Victims' Families (October 2000) to the Recommendations of Mahash. Volume 17, September 2005.

Marwan Dwairy, "October 2000: Defined Goals and New Mechanisms," Volume 19, October 2005. [Commentary]

11. The Occupied Palestinian Territory

Sharon Weill, "A Survey on the Follow‐up to the Goldstone Report," Volume 72, May-June 2010.

Fady Khoury, "No Right to Compensation," Volume 87, November 2011

John Reynolds, "Five Years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Wall: Barriers to Enforcement," Volume 62, July 2009

Fatmeh El-'Ajou, "On the Criminal Responsibility of the Israeli Army in Gaza," Volume 59, April 2009

Fatmeh El-'Ajou, "Position Paper - Israeli Military Attacks on the Civilian Police Force and Government Buildings and Institutions of Hamas in Gaza," Volume 57, February 2009

Darry Li, "From Prison to Zoo: Israel's "Humanitarian" Control of Gaza," Volume 44, January 2008

Stefan August Luetgenau, "Sponsor Wanted! Human Rights at the Annapolis Summit," Volume 41, October 2007

Diana Buttu, "The ICJ Ruling: Looking Back," Volume 62, July 2009

A. The Wall and the Disengagement from Gaza

Anne Massagee, "Property Destruction as a Collective Punishment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," Volume 11, March 2005. [Commentary]

Anne Massagee, "The Missing Element of the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion: Enforcement," Volume 15, July 2005.

Marwan Dalal, "Another Brick in the Wall: Between Israeli Law and the ICJ's Advisory Opinion," Volume 15, July 2005.

Jamal Juma'a, "The Racist Separation Wall in the West Bank: A look at its economic and social effects and its ramifications on the future of the Palestinian People," Volume 3, July 2004.

Ilan Pappe, "The Gaza Disengagement and the Prospect of Further Human Rights Violations," Volume 16, August 2005.

Netta Amar, "International Humanitarian Law Concerns - The Wall and the Disengagement Plan," Volume 16, August 2005.

Sharif Hamadeh, "Slicing off Gaza is Just a Diplomatic Nose Job," Volume 16, August 2005. [Commentary]

Gaby Lasky, "Bilin: A Test Case for Immunity - The Culture of Violence and Deception among the Israeli "Security Forces"," Volume 19, October 2005.

B. The Palestinian Elections 2006

Riaz Hassan, "The Hamas Victory in the Palestinian Elections: Local and Global Perspectives," Volume 22, February 2006. [Commentary]

Larry Garber, "Observations on the Palestinian Legislative Council Elections," Volume 22, February 2006. [Commentary]

12. Remedies in International Law

Hala Khoury-Bisharat, "Israel and the Culture of Impunity," Volume 37, June 2007

Jamil Dakwar, "In the Name of Justice," Volume 19, October 2005. [Commentary]

Fiona McKay, "The International Criminal Court: A New Role for Victims in International Criminal Proceedings," Volume 15, July 2005.