Activists plaster JNF building with photos of razed Bedouin homes
The photos were posted "to protest the JNF's complicity in the crime of pushing the Arab and Bedouin residents of the Negev from their lands," according to a statement.
By Jack KhouryActivists protesting demolitions in the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib covered the walls of the Jewish National Fund building in Tel Aviv with photographs documenting the destruction.
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A Bedouin boy carries timber after police removed temporary shacks from the site earlier, in the village of El Araqib, on August 4, 2010. |
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The photos were posted "to protest the JNF's complicity in the crime of pushing the Arab and Bedouin residents of the Negev from their lands," according to a statement.
As part of the effort to "Judaize" the Negev, the government leased much of the unrecognized village's lands to the JNF, for forestation purposes, said the activists.
In 2005, the JNF inaugurated the "Ambassadors' Forest" on the village's lands.
"We demand the JNF stop taking part in land grabs and pushing the Bedouins from their land," the statement read.
Dr. Awad Abu Farih, the spokesman for the local committee, told Haaretz he welcomed the protest.
"The JNF entered the picture as the operational wing of Israel Land Administration. This is a dangerous move for us - as long as there was a dispute with the ILA some agreement could be reached, but the JNF is a single-nation organization and leasing the land to it means it's not meant for Arabs."
The JNF was not available for comment by press time.
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Yes the state wants to judaize the Negev. For decades governments have talked about Judaizing the Negev & Galilee. Right now there is also alot of money being spent at last to develop the Negev region something the bedouin will have to get used to the way one day the arabs in the Galilee arab triangle will have to get used to lots of jews moving into the area when the investment comes. Already Nefesh B Nefesh are offering money to olim who want to move to the Galilee & Golan. As for th decission to raze this ILLEGAL village was made by the courts after a long process ( not the JNF ) and the land this illegal village occupied will not be going to the JNF. This land is already state land. The state is also allowed to decide how this land should be used but unlike JNF land they cannot make any clauses saying it can only be used by jews. The bedouin should also remeber despite what ancient bedouin culture says the Negev is not bedouin property. This land belongs to the state except for the areas that the JNF already owns and only JNF land ( which belongs to a private trust ) can be exclusivly used by jews. i I would hope that the left wing would encourage the judaization of the Negev and Galilee considering they hate the settlements so much ... those people will have to live somewhere if they are one day forced to move.
I wonder how American Jews or Jews anywhere would feel if one day a government came in saying that cities that have a large number of Jews must be Christianized and that Jews would have to move out into special enclaves so that Christians can move in. There would The
Israel can do whatever they want with it. Just like how the US can kick you out of your house with eminent domain.
No one is going to let the agency's role go either in the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews from their land. It remains so ugly and cruel... I imagine, it dishonors Jews everywhere... .Dutch
Donators, both here and abroad, should know where their money is going. They should designate exactly what projects they support. Planting forests on Bedouin lands is unacceptable.