Prawer Plan

Israel’s Prawer plan aims to forcibly displace up to 50,000 Palestinian Bedouins in the Naqab desert, confiscate 800,000 dunums of land, and confine the Bedouins to one percent of the land. Palestinian across the country are calling for a day of “Anger Strike” and plan to take to the streets in their thousands.

Reporter Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks about Israel’s historic and ongoing plans to forcibly displace the Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Naqab region.

Sixty-five years after the Nakba – Israel’s expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians – began Palestinians still face forced removal from their land.

In a report last month on Israel’s racist “Judaization” policies in the Negev, BBC reporter Tim Whewell wrote that “Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel are guaranteed full equality by law.” Responding to my complaint, the BBC’s Middle East desk has acknowledged that this is not the case, and “agree the wording of the sentence in question is inaccurate.”

I refuse to be silent as the European Union abets Israeli apartheid.