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Key Historical Events
Land Day (30 March 1976)
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| "In memory of those who fell on Land Day. They died so that we can live, and their spirit lives on". Text on the memorial site at Sakhnin (Photo: Makbula Nassar, 2003) |
For a quarter of a century, the Palestinian minority in Israel has celebrated Land Day on 30 March 30 as a protest against Israel's discriminatory policies toward its one million Palestinian citizens and to underline its collective and individual rights. Land Day, or Yoam al-'Ard in Arabic, is also a commemoration of the bloody confrontations with state "security" forces that took place in 1976 when six Palestinians were killed and some 100 injured.
Overviews
The Forgotten Million: Land Day and Israel's Palestinian Minority, Marwan Bishara (30 March 2001)
What is it that Palestinians commemorate on Land Day?, Arjan El Fassed (30 March 2001)
The First Yum El-Ard Protest: An interview with Fr. Shehadeh Shehadeh, Sharif Hamadeh (31 March 2005)
The Media
Unqualified use of the term "Arab Israeli" instead of "Palestinian", Arjan El Fassed (30 March 2001)
Activism
Yom al-Ard in Bethlehem, Juliette G. and Shihad (31 March 2005)
Palestine Shrinks as an Ineffectual World Watches, BADIL (28 March 2004)
Palestinian Land Day 2003, BADIL (30 March 2003)
Palestinian Land Day 2002, BADIL (29 March 2002)
Palestinians in Israel
Identity Crisis: Israel and Its Arab Citizens, International Crisis Group (4 March 2004)
Adalah petitions Supreme Court to cancel discriminatory land distribution, Adalah (20 October 2003)
The Or Commission indeed discriminated, Marwan Dalal, Ha'aretz (13 October 2003)
Special Report: Or Commission, Adalah
Special Report: Family Unification, Adalah
Defining Apartheid: Israel's Record, Uri Strauss (19 September 2002)
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on Israel to revoke Nationality and Entry into Israel law (14 August 2003)
Knesset passes racist law barring family unification of Palestinians married to Israeli citizens, Adalah (31 July 2003)
Websites
Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Special report: Official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events
The Arab Association for Human Rights
Association of Forty
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