Summary
The documents issued by Palestinian NGOs in Israel in 2006 and 2007 laying out what the relationship between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli state should be — described in Chapter 10 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine as three documents (PDF p.285) and in Chapter 11 as four “Vision Papers” by Musawa, the Follow-Up Committee, Mada al-Karmil and Adalah (PDF p.305); both counts stand as printed in their places.
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Two explicitly framed the issue as colonialism: the Haifa Declaration called Zionism a “settler-colonial project in Palestine” and the Future Vision described Israel as “executing internal colonial policies against its Palestinian Arab citizens”; they stressed that “Israel should be a democratic binational state that guarantees full equality between Arabs and Jews within the Green Line” (PDF p.285).
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Chapter 11 records their demand to be recognised as “a native national group” (PDF p.305), for “cultural educational autonomy” — “the Arab Palestinians in Israel — as natives — have the right to run their own educational system” (PDF p.305) — and for a separate Arab educational authority.
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They were met with widespread hostility by Jewish Israelis (PDF p.285).
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Chapter 2 of Stateless Citizenship (2013) counts three documents, published in 2006 and 2007: The Future Vision of the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel (High Follow-Up Committee), The Democratic Constitution (Adalah) and The Haifa Declaration (Mada al-Carmel), prepared in conjunction with one another by activists, public figures and intellectuals who in many cases worked on more than one. They are the first formal statements by collectives from the Palestinian community in Israel on their placement within Israeli society and politics, and are more or less in agreement that Israel must accept responsibility for injustices against the Palestinian people, including recognition of the Nakba, the right of return as per UN Resolution 194, and Palestinian national self-determination within the pre-1967 borders (PDF p.99-100). The count differs from Farsakh’s Chapter 11 four, as recorded in the Summary; both stand.
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Stateless Citizenship (2013) republishes selections from two of the three as its appendices: Appendix I, Adalah’s The Democratic Constitution (PDF p.239-246), and Appendix II, Mada al-Carmel’s The Haifa Declaration (PDF p.247-251), both reproduced in selections marked with ellipses.
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Haifa Declaration, Indigeneity, Binationalism, Stateless Citizenship (2013), Democratic Constitution