Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced explained

The Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (ADRID) (Arabic: جمعية الدفاع عن حقوق المهجرين) is a non-governmental Palestinian organization in Israel that focuses on defending the right of internally displaced Palestinians, often known as "present absentees," to return to their lands and their homes.^{[1] [2]}

Among the association's activities are organizing the annual March of Return to commemorate the Nakba.^{[3] [4] [5]} These marches began in the late 1990s, coinciding with Nakba Day and Israel's Independence Day.^[6] ADRID has worked in cooperation with other NGOs, among them the High Follow-Up Committee and Zochrot, in coordinating such activities.^[7]

History

The association was created in the mid-1990s, prompted by the perception of many Palestinians at the time that the negotiations processes in Madrid and Oslo were not adequately defending the right of return of refugees, including those residing both inside and outside of historic Palestine.^{[8] [9] [10]} Although their conventions and activities began in the 1990s, they only became legally registered as an NGO in Israel in the year 2000.

See also

• High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel
• Land Day

Notes and References

1. Web site: Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel Receives International Human Rights Award . 2024-11-04 . BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights . en.
2. Web site: 2024-05-14 . جمعية الدفاع عن حقوق المهجرين تدعو لأوسع مشاركة في مسيرة العودة . 2024-11-04 . موقع عرب 48 . en.
3. Web site: Bishara . Amahl . July 2023 . My Impossible Ethnography: Gaza's March of Return . 2024-11-04 . Insaniyyat Society of Palestinian Anthropologists . en-US.
4. Web site: 2024-05-14 . The March of Return . 2024-11-04 . Zochrot . en.
5. Book: Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej . Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba . 2023 . Stanford University Press . 978-1-5036-0270-0 . 1 . 271.
6. Mendilow . Jonathan . 2012 . Cohen . Hillel . Haklai . Oded . Jamal . Amal . Pappé . Ilan . Peleg . Ilan . Waxman . Dov . Reiter . Yitzhak . Israel's Palestinian Minority: From 'Quietism' to Ethno-nationalism . Israel Studies Review . 27 . 1 . 142–160 . 2159-0370.
7. Book: Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples . 2021 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-80073-129-5 . 1 . 393.
8. Wakim . Wakim . 2001 . The "Internally Displaced": Seeking Return within One's Own Land . Journal of Palestine Studies . 31 . 1 . 32–38 . 10.1525/jps.2001.31.1.32 . 0377-919X.
9. Web site: 2018-04-18 . واكيم: "صوت الضحية يُعلن بعد 70 عاما أنها ترفض أن تموت" . 2024-11-04 . عرب 48 . en.
10. Autumn 1999 . The National Committee for the Internally Displaced . Al-Majdal Magazine . Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights . 3.