Summary
The umbrella coalition of Palestinian civil society groups in Israel whose former director Ameer Makhoul’s arrest Stateless Citizenship (2013) examines, and one of the Haifa-based organisations — with Mada al-Carmel and Adalah — at which Molavi held posts during the research for her book (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.15-16, p.102-103).
Details
- Ittijah serves as a medium of communication between various Palestinian civil society groups in Israel, encouraging them to meet regularly and network to develop communal and political ties; central to its mandate is advocacy around the socio-cultural, political and economic needs of Palestinian-Arabs at the local Palestinian, regional Arab and international levels (PDF p.102-103).
- In August 2004 Ittijah was granted Special Consultative status from the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the first Palestinian civil society organization in Israel to achieve consultative status with a United Nations body (PDF p.103, footnote 75).
- On the night of May 6, 2010 the security services raided the Ittijah office in Haifa in the operation that arrested its director, Ameer Makhoul (PDF p.103).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Ameer Makhoul, Mada al-Carmel, Adalah