unrecognized villages

Israel will soon put a plan to forcibly displace up to 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins on its statute books.

Despite an Israeli high court ruling to open a high school in a Bedouin village, students remained deprived of basic educational facilities.

A Bedouin activist has filed an appeal to Israel’s highest court in an attempt to make the state recognize his land rights.

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.

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.

More than 70 percent of Bedouin girls drop out of school in Israel, where access to education is restricted.

Unemployment and poverty rates among the Negev Bedouin in unrecognized villages are the highest in Israel.

A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discriminatory and ignores the Bedouins’ historic connection to the land.