Adalah sent a letter of complaint by businessman Ibrahim Jabarin regarding  a car rental company’s refusal to rent him a car. Jabarin sought to rent a car from Cal Auto’s branch in Afula on the 21^st of January 2014, but was informed that they could not complete the transaction and that he was prohibited from renting cars from the company. When Jabarin tried to clarify the situation, the representative claimed that there is a “general problem” with car rentals to members of the Jabarin and Ighbariya families. Jabarin then called Cal Auto’s branch in Haifa and recorded the conversation (in Hebrew). He was once again refused a car, with the company representative stating the same reasons.

Attorney Shehadeh also stated that, “the link between a ‘security official’ and a privately-owned firm is illegal and very disturbing. This is a serious violation of the family members’ right to privacy. Intelligence about them, the nature of which is unclear, as are its sources, is being given to civilian-business agencies.” In this case, the transfer of information allowed for the racist stigmatization of two large Arab families compromising of 30,000 citizens, and presented them as suspects, when the majority have no connection to the matters raised by the security officials. This constituted smearing of the families’ reputations violats their constitutional rights and their right to dignity.