Admissions Committee Law - Israhell's euphemism for apartheid

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The Haaretz article shows that the Israeli authorities are intensifying their policies of discrimination and segregation against the indigenous Christian and Muslim Palestinian citizens.

Israeli authorities have imposed discriminatory land practices since 1948 in Israel against the nearly 2 million Christian and Muslim Palestinian citizens, who represent 21% of the country's population.

Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel currently make up 53% of the population of the Galilee and 25% of the population of the Negev. The Galilee and Negev regions comprise two-thirds of the land in Israel.

Haaretz article states that Israeli authorities are taking major steps to further "Judaize" the Galilee and Negev by intensifying discriminatory land practices and housing policy, mainly by expanding the Law Admissions Committee, so that it applies to communities with up to 1,000 households.

The Israeli state directly controls 93 percent of the country's land, including occupied East Jerusalem. A government agency, the Israel Land Authority (ILA), manages and allocates these state lands. Almost half of the members of the governing body belong to the Jewish National Fund (JNF), whose explicit mandate is to develop and lease land for Jews and not for any other segment of the population. The JNF owns 13% of Israel's land, which the state is mandated to use "for the purpose of Jewish settlement". their.

Currently, Israeli law allows towns in the Galilee and Negev with up to 400 households to maintain admissions committees that can reject applicants to live there for being "unsuitable for the social life of the community" or for being incompatible with the "socio-cultural fabric" . ."

This authority effectively allows Christian and Muslim Palestinians to be excluded from small Jewish towns, which Adalah, a Haifa-based human rights group, estimated in 2014 to be 43% of all towns in Israel, though a smaller percentage of the country's population . In a 2015 study, Yosef Jabareen, a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, found that there are more than 900 small Jewish towns in Israel, including kibbutzim, which can limit who can live there and have no Christians and Muslims . Palestinian citizens living in them.

By expanding the Admissions Committee Law to apply to communities of up to 1,000 households, Israel would prevent its 2 million indigenous Christian and Muslim Palestinian citizens from living in 900 communities that would be home to approximately 3 million Israeli Jews.

Canada must condemn these discriminatory and racist policies that violate the human rights of 2 million Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens and everything enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.




Israel advances law preventing Palestinian citizens from living in 'Jewish areas'
Human rights groups have promised to challenge the bill that would see more Israeli towns vetting Palestinians from buying land
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-advances-law-preventing-palestinian-citizens-living-jewish-areas

The Israeli government is advancing legislation to "Judaize" the Galilee, a region in northern Israel with a significant Palestinian population.

The move is part of a deal that was struck to form Israel's new government last year with far-right politicians Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who want to expand Jewish settlement in the region.

As part of the plan to "save Jewish settlement in the Galilee," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to significantly strengthen a controversial 2011 law that would give small communities powers to vet prospective newcomers.

When the law was passed the goal was to bypass a Supreme Court ruling forbidding residential communities from leasing land only to Jews.

The laws give "almost complete discretion" to these small communities to choose who lives there, said Suhad Bishara from Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

"In practice, this arrangement is, principally, a tool for screening out Palestinian citizens and preventing their residence in these communities and constitutes a legal mechanism for residential segregation in many localities in the State of Israel," said Bishara, speaking to Middle East Eye.

Earlier this month, Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin said that the purchase of houses by Palestinians in towns and cities in Israel was pushing Jewish people to leave these areas.

"Arabs buy apartments in Jewish communities in the Galilee and this causes Jews to leave these cities because they are not ready to live with Arabs," said Levin.

Now the Israeli government is to "expand this system and deepen it," said Bishara.

The government has committed to increase the number of towns able to select newcomers from those with 400 households to those with up to 1,000 households.

The expansion of the law is also supported by a number of opposition parliamentarians. The first reading of the bill that would have allowed towns with up to 600 households to screen who moves in was passed under the former government.

The law officially does not allow acceptance committees to reject resident candidates for reasons of race, religion, gender, nationality, disability, class, age, parentage, sexual orientation, country of origin, views or party political affiliation.

However, the wording of the 2011 law allows committees to reject candidates who they deem to be "inappropriate for the social and cultural fabric" of the community.

'Blatant violation of human rights law'
The Israeli cabinet earlier this month also discussed a new proposal to assert "Zionist values" in government policy, which critics have argued could enable Jewish Israelis to receive preferential treatment in housing planning and construction.

Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in the Negev (Naqab) region have long accused the Israeli government of attempting to uproot them through various tactics.

Those include confiscation of lands from Palestinians and turning landowners into tenants. Additionally, the Israeli government has been accused of preventing the expansion of Palestinian villages and encircling them with new Jewish settlements.

The new law is set to also be expanded to the occupied West Bank in areas where Israel has annexed territory that also includes Palestinians.

Bishara said the bill, if passed as is, could be "open for constitutional examination in regard to its applicability in Israel."

"This is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law, which apply to the West Bank, as an occupied territory," warned Bishara.

"If passed, this will lead to the deepening of the mechanism of de facto annexation of occupied territories and could be considered part of a de jure annexation process, in absolute contravention of the laws of occupation," she added.