Adalah's web site claims:
Adalah's mission is to promote human rights in Israel in general and the rights of the Palestinian minority, citizens of Israel, in particular (around 1.5 million people, or 20% of the population). This work also includes promoting and defending the human rights of all individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Israel (e.g. Palestinian residents of the OPT) [ed: Occupied Palestinian Territories]. Adalah is the first Palestinian Arab-run legal center in Israel, and the sole Palestinian organization that works before Israeli courts to protect the human rights of Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT.
Implementing HKOPS would see Adalah no longer having to defend the human rights of the Palestinian Arab residents of the OPT – its major client base.
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Adalah is funded by the following overseas foundations and private trusts:
- Open Society Foundations (USA)
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Switzerland)
- The European Commission
- New Israel Fund (USA)
- Bread for the World (formerly EED) (Germany)
- Christian Aid (Great Britain)
- Broederlijk Delen (Belgium)
- Sigrid Rausing Trust (Great Britain)
- Medico International (Germany)
- Diakonia (Sweden)
How would they regard continuing to fund an organisation that seems more interested in perpetuating the Jewish-Arab conflict rather than seeing it ended?
Creating fear and anxiety in the Arab population of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) is not in anyone's interest.
Intrigued by Adalah's stance I posted the following comment in response to Adalah's claim that the Netanyahu Government intended to impose sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank):
Is Adalah aware of the 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution which calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one sovereign entity? Implementation of this plan would see the current Palestinian Arab residents of this newly-merged entity acquiring citizenship of that entity and being freed from Israeli occupation. Non-resident Palestinian Arabs living elsewhere would also be offered such citizenship. Does Adalah support such a plan to end the conflict between Arabs and Jews?
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I'm still waiting for Adalah's reply.
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