The Haifa Declaration

Over 50 years after the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, a group of Palestinian intellectuals, academics, and activists from different fields and political viewpoints drafted a consensual statement of a collective vision that Palestinian citizens in Israel articulate about themselves. The statement, known as ???The Haifa Declaration,??? is a project begun in 2002 under the auspices of Mada al-Carmel ??? Arab Center for Applied Social Research, in Haifa. The project sought to create a forum for Palestinian Arab citizens from as broad a social and political base as possible, beyond the boundaries of power politics to freely their collective future and status in the homeland, the major challenges facing Palestinian society, and relations with the state of Israel.