Adalah

December 21, 2011

Website: www.adalah.org
Founded November 1996, located in Haifa, aims to “promote and defend the rights of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel.”
Describes itself as “an independent human rights organization and legal center.”
In 2007-2010, the New Israel Fund (NIF) authorized grants worth $1,146,896 to Adalah (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).
Adalah’s donors include the European Union, Switzerland, Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, Oxfam-Novib, Christian Aid, ACSUR, NDC (joint funding of Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands), and UN Development Programme. (Click here for Adalah’s 2010 financial submission to the Israeli Registrar of Non-Profits.)
Drafted a 2007 “Democratic Constitution,” which calls for replacing the Jewish foundation of the state with a “democratic, bilingual and multicultural” framework. Jewish immigration would be permitted for “humanitarian reasons.”
Adalah officials, in conjunction with radical Palestinian NGO Al-Haq, wrote and edited large portions of a May 2009 pseudo-academic study that refers to “a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid.” The report delegitimizes Israeli self-defense measures as “inhumane act[s] of apartheid...perpetrated in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another.”
Participated in a May 2009 NGO “town hall meeting” in Geneva that helped shape the course of the UN’s Goldstone Mission. Adalah was subsequently cited 38 times in the Goldstone report.
In its lobbying in support of the Goldstone report and its recommendations, Adalah issued a press release urging governments to “re-evaluate their relationship with Israel.”
Submitted a legal opinion to a Spanish court in support of PCHR’s lawfare case against Israeli officials.
In March 2010, an Adalah representative was scheduled to speak at “Israeli Apartheid Week” at Al Quds University “on Apartheid as it is experienced by Palestinian citizens of Israel.”