Support the Bedouin!
Israel’ s right-wing government continues to persecute Israel’ s Bedouin population. Plans are underway for the mass resettlement of tens of thousands in cities. But the Bedouin are refusing to go. Israel has 200,000 Bedouin, with a further 40,000 in the West Bank and millions beyond, in Jordan, Sinai and Gaza. Nearly half the Negev’ s Bedouin live in un-registered villages. Many settlements predate the state, but are unrecognised and so are refused road, public transport, water and electricity. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank 2,000 Bedouin are to be shifted to the edge of a rubbish dump to...