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[email protected] Website: www.arabhra.org Website: www.no-racism.org The Arab Association for Human The Center Against Racism is Rights (HRA) was founded in 1988 a registered non-profit organization by a group of lawyers and community that aims to monitor all cases and activists to promote and protect the incidents of racism committed by civil and political, economic, social and the Israeli authorities and by Jewish cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab citizens against Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from an international citizens of the State of Israel. The human-rights perspective. In 2003, Center also aims to combat these the HRA expanded its activities to cases and incidents wherever possible include a human-rights monitoring through public action and within the program, whose methodology relies framework of the law. The idea of on field research and interviews and establishing the Center was born legal analysis of the domestic and following the events of October 2000 international human-rights standards. (the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Intifada), The idea of establishing a Research and when 12 Arab citizens of Israel were Reporting program was first developed murdered and hundreds injured by the by the HRA in the wake of the events of October 2000, when 13 Palestinian Israel Police, which received a green Arabs (twelve citizens of Israel and light for these actions from the Israeli one from the Occupied Palestinian government.