Key Historical Events
Land Day (30 March 1976)
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. (Added 30 March 2004)

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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