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Israel Supreme Court: Bedouin have no indigenous rights
A recent Supreme Court ruling refusing to recognize Bedouin land rights sets a legal precedent for the state to endlessly appropriate Palestinian lands. A Bedouin man confronts Israeli policemen...
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Bedouin village of Atir to be replaced with forest of ‘Yatir’
Atir is hardly the first case in which forestation has been used by the Israeli government and the JNF as a method of displacement and land grabbing against Palestinians — on both sides of the Green...
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A living legacy of displacement
The impulses that drove the dispossession of the 1948 war are still acted on today, on both sides of the borders it forged. A Bedouin woman is seen near the ruins of her house in the unrecognized...
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The ‘new Zionism’ is turning Negev Bedouin into a myth
As the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran prepares to be replaced by a Jewish town with a near-identical name, its residents are offering solutions based on real co-existence. By Ariel Dloomy The...
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Who wants to talk about the murder of Bedouin women?
The Israeli media has time to talk about Iran, the security budget, and Beit El. That means that when Arab women are murdered, there are always more important issues to cover. Women from the West Bank...
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PHOTOS: Construction for Jewish town to replace Bedouin village draws ire
Israel is moving forward with a controversial plan to outright replace a Bedouin village with a Jewish town in the Negev/Naqab. Protesters march as construction begins for Jewish town to replace...
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Photo exhibit challenges Zionism’s most popular myth
Using haunting aerial photographs of the Negev Desert, American artist Fazal Sheikh challenges the notion that the desert was an unpopulated land before Zionism made it bloom. By Tom Pessah In...
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15 years on, it seems October 2000 killings weren’t an aberration
Israel’s ‘new’ policy of shooting stone throwers is directed exclusively against Arabs from East Jerusalem and the Naqab (Negev), while ensuring that customary rules of engagement are applied to Jewish...
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Israel demolishes Bedouin village of Al Araqib — for the 90th time
Things have been quiet in the Negev lately. So the authorities decided to take advantage of this period of relative calm and, while everybody’s attention was elsewhere, sent the bulldozers to destroy...
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New Jewish settlements planned ‘on top of’ Bedouin villages
The Israeli government approves a plan for five new settlements in the Negev/Naqab. Rights group says the plan, like Israel’s overall policy regarding its Bedouin citizens, is discriminatory. A man...
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Bedouin town slated for destruction is true test for Israelis
The Negev comprises two thirds of Israel’s territory, but only 10 percent of citizens lives there. It is thus no coincidence that the Jewish settlement of Hiran is being planned directly atop the ruins...
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PHOTOS: Arabs and Jews protest planned expulsion of 1,200 Bedouin
Demonstrators march outside Be’er Sheva court, calling on the government not to evacuate two unrecognized Bedouin villages. Text by Yael Marom, photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Bedouin women take...
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How colonialism and climate change displace the Negev’s Bedouin
A new book examines the ways in which Israel’s policies of displacement in the Negev are also drastically changing the environment where hundreds of thousands live. By Tom Pessah Bedouin children...
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Recognizing the grief of the Nakba
In appointing itself the gatekeeper of historical memory, Israel has shackled the promotion of its own narrative to the suppression of the Palestinian narrative. Thousands of Palestinian citizens of...
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Nearly 1,000 Bedouin structures demolished in past year
Over 1,700 structures were self-demolished by their owners over the past three years following pressure by police and state inspectors. Around half the demolitions were carried out in recognized...
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Israel demolishes Bedouin village al-Araqib for 100th time
Al-Araqib is one of 35 ‘unrecognized’ villages in Israel that authorities refuse to provide with water, electricity or basic infrastructure. Israeli security forces demolish structures in the...
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100k Bedouin Israelis couldn’t watch Netanyahu’s ‘apology’— they don’t have...
In a video shot in his office, Israel’s prime minister apologizes to the country’s Arab citizens for inciting against them. But a large portion of them couldn’t watch it — they live in ‘unrecognized...
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West Bank home demolitions hit 10-year high
Israeli military authorities have demolished at least 180 Palestinian homes since the start of 2016 alone, and over 1,100 in the past decade, according to B’Tselem and the UN. A Palestinian woman sorts...
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As Arab women become statistics, their killers walk free
Sana al-Zana was murdered and buried in the desert late last year. The media didn’t report it, the police did little to nothing, and the killer is still walking free. Arab women protest gender violence...
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Time’s up? State announces imminent demolition of Bedouin village
Authorities will begin demolishing the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Tuesday morning — in order to replace it with a Jewish town. Residents of Umm el-Hiran tow potable water to their...
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