Bedouins
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Apartheid lives on in Israel, rampant, disguised, and despised — says ‘Le Monde’ correspondent Philip Weiss
After saluting the demise of a “moral leader of the first order ,” Netanyahu decided not to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela because of the cost of the trip. The reason given is surprising to say the least when the world is paying tribute to the heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle. The Israeli Prime… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 April 2013: Jahalin Bedouins face new eviction
22 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinians Injured As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protest In JerusalemIMEMC – Monday April 22, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was shot and injured in the face after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians holding a nonviolent protest in solidarity with Palestinian detainees, in Abu Dis town, Continue reading
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Israel finds new “home” for Bedouins: a garbage dump By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Quietly unveiled to local aid organizations in early October, Israel’s Civil Administration, the body that governs Area C of the occupied West Bank which is under full Israeli military and administrative control, plans to expel approximately 27,000 Bedouins from their communities in Area C within three to six years. Continue reading
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Israel’s Negev ‘frontier’ By Ben White
On this year’s Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present systematic discrimination. But with the focus on Israel’s policies of land confiscation, there was significance in a second protest that day. In the Negev (referred to as… Continue reading
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What happened to Ezra Nawi?
Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists. His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region. Nawi, a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent,… Continue reading
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