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Sent to prison for trespassing on his own land
Israeli authorities have demolished Al-Araqib over 100 times. Before heading to prison for rebuilding and staying on his land, the village’s leader says he knows justice is on his side. “I have a good feeling I’ll be in prison alongside Netanyahu,” Sheikh Sayeh Abu Madi’am jokes, sitting in a tent in the unrecognized Bedouin village of…
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Oren Ziv
December 11, 2018
In Be’er Sheva, coexistence is ‘political,’ and can get you evicted
The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Quality has been a fixture in the city of Be’er Sheva for decades. Now, following pressure from far-right activists, the city is evicting it. By Yehudit Keshet The city of Be’er Sheva is trying to evict the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, the only place where Jews and…
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January 8, 2018
Is Israel turning its Bedouin citizens into a stateless people?
Israel has been systematically revoking citizenship from its Bedouin citizens without as much as telling them. Is this a harbinger of things to come? In Israel’s relentless war against its Arab citizens, there are few things that one can still reasonably claim to be surprised by. Jack Khoury’s article in Haaretz a few weeks ago, however,…
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Orly Noy
September 15, 2017
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For Arab citizens, ‘Jewish and democratic’ means demographic war
While much of the world justly focuses on land theft in the occupied territories, we must not forget that Israel uses the pretense of ‘Jewish and democratic’ to actively dispossess its own Arab citizens. Israeli citizens who may be feeling doubtful about the efficiency of their country’s institutions should take a hard look at the…
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Orly Noy
August 22, 2017
Israel is razing a Bedouin village to build a Jewish-only town on its ruins
Israeli authorities have promised the courts that the displaced Bedouin residents would have an opportunity to live in the new community. New documents show that is far from the case. Despite assurances made to Israel’s High Court of Justice, a new town being built on the ruins of a Bedouin village in southern Israel is…
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Edo Konrad
August 10, 2017
Bedouin village braces for a new round of demolitions
It has been half a year since Israeli police killed Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an during the demolition of his home. Now the police are back to demolish structures donated to provide shelter to his children. By Yael Marom It has been nearly a year and a half since a police raid on the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran…
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July 3, 2017
WATCH: How Israel discriminates against its Bedouin citizens
From suffering home demolitions to persistent demonization in the media, Israel’s Bedouin citizens are frequently the targets of the very attitudes they’re accused of. Read more: Israel Supreme Court: Bedouin have no indigenous rights Bedouin town slated for destruction is true test for Israelis
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June 7, 2017
Creeping censorship in a southern Israeli town
Verbal attacks by right-wing groups and politicians in Be’er Sheva are threatening both NGOs and the local university. By Daniel Beller Over the past year various entities, including right-wing movements, have been trying to close down a joint Jewish-Arab cultural institution in the southern Israeli town of Be’er Sheva. The Multaqa-Mifgash Center, founded by the…
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May 31, 2017
Israel aims new Nakba-style weapon at Arab citizens
A new law paves the way for a fresh wave of home demolitions in Palestinian towns and villages throughout Israel. Its passing is proof that the land grab begun by Israel in 1948 never ended. By Myssana Morany What Jewish Israelis call their War of Independence, Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic.…
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May 15, 2017
The fight for justice begins at home
Rather than focusing exclusively on Israel-Palestine, Western leftists should use the occupation as a starting point to examine their own role in oppression at home. By Jakub Zahora In early October last year, dozens of activists staged a “Global Sukkot against Demolitions” demonstration in front of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) building in Jerusalem. I…
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March 6, 2017
Residents of Bedouin village protest government’s forced relocation plan
An Israeli government plan to forcibly transfer thousands of Bedouin residents out of the Negev village of Al-Zarnug is being met with fierce criticism. By Daniel Beller Around 200 residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Zarnug demonstrated in the southern city of Be’er Sheva on Sunday morning in protest at a government plan to forcibly…
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January 30, 2017
Shin Bet detains Arab activists — to stop them from attending funeral
Three well-known Bedouin activists were detained and interrogated on the way to the funeral of Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an, who was killed by police last week. Attorney Gaby Lasky: ‘This has all the marks of a police state.’ Israeli police and the security authorities continue to persecute the Arab residents of the Negev. On Tuesday, the…
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Rami Younis
January 26, 2017
PHOTOS: This is what it looks like when your village is demolished
When the bulldozers turned up in Umm el-Hiran last week, they were accompanied by hundreds of armed Israeli police, who locked down the village as residents were forced to watch their homes being destroyed. By Michal Rotem “It was the first time that the police had acted so violently towards us. We knew the night…
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January 23, 2017
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