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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

New Arab Undercover Police Unit Constitutes Discrimination and Racial Profiling Against Arab Citizens of Israel and is Illegal

Adalah
On 13 October 2009, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Internal Security, and the Chief Commander of the Israeli police demanding that they refrain from activating a new undercover police unit—whose officers, referred to as mista’aravim, infiltrate the Arab community—against the Arab minority in Israel. The existence of the unit was revealed by the Ha’aretz newspaper on 13 October 2009. Adalah further demanded the publication of the working directives and standards of the unit, as well as the rules that guarantee against racial profiling in the work of the police, if they exist. Ha’aretz disclosed that the unit had been established on the pretext of fighting Arab “crime families” in Israel and gathering intelligence information on them.

Full Press Release
at 10/14/2009 03:44:00 PM