Renounce Theft of Bedouin Land

The cabinet's decision on Sunday to build the new town of Hiran on the lands of the Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran will require the village to be evacuated and demolished. This constitutes a new low in the state’s treatment of the Bedouin of the Negev, and a new stage in Israel’s becoming an ethnocracy: a regime that exists for the good of a single ethnic group, and that grants rights on the basis of ethnic affiliation rather than the principles of equality.