Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 05/31/2013 - 20:41
Reporter Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks about Israel’s historic and ongoing plans to forcibly displace the Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Naqab region.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 11:37
Sixty-five years after the Nakba – Israel’s expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians – began Palestinians still face forced removal from their land.
Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 14:00
This week’s podcast includes several reports of home and property demolitions by Israeli forces against West Bank Palestinians as well as Palestinians with Israeli citizenship; an interview with BDS organizer and activist Nada Elia; and more!
Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 20:25
Last week, Israeli bulldozers razed homes and livestock pens in a wave of demolitions in the occupied Jordan Valley in the West Bank. And on 6 March, the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab was destroyed for the 33rd time since July 2010.
Because of the efforts by Palestine solidarity activists to expose the colonization project of the Jewish National Fund, 2012 could perhaps be the organization’s last year holding charity status in the UK.
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks to The Electronic Intifada about her new film focusing on the Bedouin village of al-Araqib and the women, men and children who resist displacement by the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund.
While attention is focused on the Palestinian Authority’s UN recognition initiative, Israel is quietly taking hugely significant steps to transfer 30,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev) desert from their ancestral lands.
