41st Land Day
On 30 March 1976, Israeli police killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel during protests against the government's expropriation of massive tracts of Arab-owned land. This tragic event is commemorated annually as Land Day.
Forty-one years later, the land and housing rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel remain under threat.
As official data about land tenders in 2016 reaffirms, the land and housing crisis in Arab communities is not the result of specific failures or unintentional neglect, but the product of a systematic and deliberate policy of inequality and racism since 1948.
Ahmad Abu Al-Qi’an, for example, was forced by Israel to destroy his own home in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm...