Publications In The Media

Listen to the full interview with Alon Liel conducted by Maya Hasson Kraus : Alon Liel on the Morning News with Maya Hasson Kraus

The fact that some 20,000 Bedouin students in the Negev may be left without an educational framework is not a technical failure or an accidental budgetary delay. It is a stark expression of an ongoing policy of civil discrimination and communal exclusion. When the Ministry of Education budgets only a portion of the necessary amount – until December only – and leaves local authorities facing a broken trough, the message is clear: There are citizens whose rights are conditional

By: Tamim Abu Khait Mohammad Bakri—the artist, actor, director, and politician—passed away yesterday in the village of Bi‘ina in the Galilee, after heart disease overcame him, even though the official Israeli machinery of repression and discrimination never succeeded in breaking him. Those who wanted his art not to convey the painful and bitter truth pursued him, and pursued one of his films for nearly twenty years until it was banned—blatantly trampling the principles of dem

By: Dr. Warda Sada Note:  This is a response article to Naama Lazimi’s most recent piece on her Facebook page.Link to the original article: https://www.citizens.org.il/en/post/on-jewish-arab-partnership-in-the-next-coalition In her article, Lazimi presents an important moral position:not to be drawn into the poison machine, but to offer a value-based, upright, and hopeful alternative. The choice to focus on life itself—on the lives of all the groups living here—strengthens t

By: Dr. Warda Sada On citizenship, identity, and the line at which Israeli democracy is tested Public discourse in Israel tends to frame the exclusion of Arab elected officials as a security, moral, or ideological stance. In reality, this is a far deeper question: Is democracy in Israel based on equal citizenship—or on a preferred ethnic identity? The demand by some elected officials that only those who define themselves as “Zionist” may be partners in government imposes an i

We in the “All Its Citizens” Party  uphold the principles of Jewish–Arab partnership and full equality among all citizens of the state. We welcome any position and any call of this kind coming from any political or civic actor in the country that contributes to this struggle. Accordingly, this post by Knesset Member Naama Lazimi, published on her Facebook page, makes a meaningful contribution to this effort. From the Facebook page of Knesset Member Naama Lazimi: I am followin