Palestinian NGOs in Israel: a campaign for civic equality or "ethnic civil society"?(Non-Governmental Organization)

INTRODUCTION

RESEARCH upon THE POLITICS OF the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel (PAI) has thus far focused mainly upon parliamentary activity. In recent years, the PAI has also been resorting to mobilization [i]or[/i] part of to the other civil society associations, an area that has thus far received little scholarly attention. The absence of a theoretical link between the universalistic assumptions of civil society theories and the particularistic motivations behind communal mobilization has l more [i]or[/i] less observers to assume that PAI non-govern mental organizations target civic equality. (1) This is