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NEW YORK TIMES
May 23, 2012
“Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal”
MSNBC
January 12, 2012
“Israeli high court keeps Israeli, Palestinian spouses apart”
BBC
January 12, 2012
“Israel upholds citizenship bar for Palestinian spouses”
The Guardian
January 12, 2012
“Court upholds law banning Palestinian spouses from living in Israel”
+972 Magazine
January 12, 2012
“Court okays Citizenship Law, legalizing discrimination of Arabs”
AlJazeera
January 12, 2012
“Human rights equated with national suicide”
January 16, 2012
“Israel’s ‘national suicide’”
Video interview with Hassan Jabareen, from Adalah: the Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel
Haaretz
December 19, 2012
“What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?”
January 11, 2012
“Israel’s High Court rejects petitions against ‘Citizenship Law’”
January 12, 2012
“Israeli-Palestinian couples on Citizenship Law: Supreme Court guided by Israeli racism”
January 12, 2012
“Cabinet expected to extend law withholding citizenship from Palestinians who marry Israelis”
January 13, 2012
“A glimpse into the life of an Israeli-Palestinian couple”
January 13, 2012
Supreme Court thrusts Israel down the slope of apartheid
January 17, 2012
“Israeli Arabs have never been equal before the law”
Individual Cases:
Taher Moslimany and Rita Isaac
Radio Netherlands Worldwide, February 14, 2012
Tunnel of Love, Valentine’s Special
Lina al Safin
Mondoweiss, November 5, 2010
“The reunification of my Parents”
Ghassan Abdullah
Electronic Intifada, December 6, 2006
“Why is Israel separating me from my wife?”
Susan a-Zir
B’tslem, September 2007
http://www.btselem.org/video/2007/09/susan-zira-jordanian-citizen-married-resident-territories
Mai Ahmed
January 25, 2012
Mai Ahmed, a bride from Qalandia/West Bank, travels through tunnels to get to her husband in Gaza after Israel prevents her from getting a permit to do so.
Institute for Middle East Understanding, October 13, 2009
“The bride who crawled through a tunnel”
Taiseer and Lana Khatib:
EIectronic Intifada, January 27, 2012
“Palestinian families denied rights by Israel’s racist marriage laws”
The World: Global Perspectives for an American Audience, January 24, 2012
“No Israeli citizenship for Palestinian Spouses” (Audio and text)
Abir Kobty, January 16, 2012
“Open Letter from Taiseer Khatib: Raise your voice against Apartheid”
Palestine Monitor, February 8, 2012
Israeli law finds new ways to keep out Palestinians
Additional Resources:
Summary of Supreme Court Judgment in the Citizenship Law Case: http://www.adalah.org/newsletter/eng/jan12/docs/Summary%20Citizenship%20Law.pdf
Jurist Legal News and Research
February 10, 2012
“Israeli Citizenship Laws are Unconstitutional”
B’tselem: the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights
On Family Reunification:
http://www.btselem.org/family_separation/east_jerusalem
Videos, Residency and Family Separation:
http://www.btselem.org/video/search/68