Constitution and the Arab Minority
Related Links:
- General Information:
T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA Index of Constitutions, Charters, Amendments, and other related Documents. Nations are listed alphabetically
Vivien Hart, "Democratic Constitution Making", Special Reports, No. 107, (United States Institute of Peace, July 2003)
Hanna Lerner, "The People of the Constitution: Constitution-Making, Legitimacy, Identity", Columbia University
- General - Israel:
Protocols of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in the Knesset(Hebrew)
The Basic Laws of Israel (Hebrew); (English)
The proposed draft for constitution by the Israel Democracy Institute (Hebrew)
Nimer Sultany, Citizens Without Citizenship, Chapter 1: Legislation and Resolutions in the Knesset, 2000-2002.
- Articles:
Shlomo Avniri, "Be careful: A constitution!", Ynet, 24 March 2005 (Hebrew)
Azmi Bishara, Position-paper submitted to the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in the Knesset: (Hebrew)
Azmi Bishara, "Jewishness versus Democracy", Al-Ahram Weekly, 28 October 2004: (English), (Arabic, Arabs48 website )
Azmi Bishara, Position Paper No. 2, submitted to the Constitution Committee of the Knesset, "Return and Citizenship", April 2005 (Hebrew)
Jonathan Cook, "Israeli Constitutional Committee Faces Double Bind", Adalah Newsletter, vol . 7, November 2004: (English)
Marwan Dalal, "A Constitution for Jews Only", Ha'aretz, 19 February 2004: (English)
Ruth Gavison, "A Constitution for Israel: Lessons from the American Experiment", Azure, vol. 12, winter 2002: (English)
Aeyal Gross, "A Constitution for Israel: With Whose Consent and at Whose Expense?" Adalah Newsletter, vol. 9, January 2005: (English)
Baruch Kimmerling, "Constitution or Prostitution?" Adalah Newsletter, vol. 9, January 2005: (English)
Baruch Kimmerling, "Danger that lurks in a Constitution", Ha'aretz, 31 March 2005 (Hebrew)
Nadim N. Rouhana, "'Constitution by Consensus': By whose Consensus?" Adalah Newsletter, vol. 7, November 2004: (English)
Nadim N. Rouhana, "The Jewish Institute for Ethnic Democracy: A Response to the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)", Adalah Newsletter, vol. 9, January 2005: (English)
Nimer Sultany, "A Jewish Constitution Preserving Arab Inferiority", Arabs48 Website: (Arabic)
- International Conventions:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries
- Arab World:
Arab Human Development Report 2004, (English, Arabic)
- Mada al-Carmel's Position:
Nadim Rouhana & Nimer Sultany, A letter sent to MK Michael Eitan, Head of the Knesset's Constitution Committee regarding the current constitution-making process, 30 March 2005 (English, Arabic, Hebrew)
Nimer Sultany, "Mada al-Carmel's position regarding the constitution-in-making", submitted to the Follow-Up Committee of The Arab Citizens in Israel, April 2005
(Arabic, Hebrew)