Posts Tagged ‘al-Araqib’
This is why Israel, 70 years after ‘independence’ is a settler-colonial state
A Beginner’s Guide to the Unrecognized Villages of Israel If there is one thing Israel fears more than anything it is delegitimisation. That is why Israel hates BDS because it challenges the legitimacy of the Israeli state. All political parties in Israel know that, despite pretensions and its claims to be the only democracy in…
Read MoreWhy Israel is a Settler Colonial State – Colonisation did not stop in 1948
Despite its pretence that it is a Western democracy, Israel is the only active settler-colonial state in the world. It’s not just that it has Administrative Detention (in Ireland this was known as Internment) i.e. indefinite imprisonment without trial, a permanent state of emergency, censorship and a system of segregated schools, employment and residential…
Read MoreThis is Apartheid – Thousands of Israel’s Bedouin citizens have had their citizenship revoked
Because Israel is a ‘Jewish’ state – this could not happen to Jews Israel is engaging on a plan to ‘Judaify’ the Negev desert area in the south. It is sparsely populated and most of its inhabitants are Bedouin. Thousands of them were expelled into neighbouring countries from 1948 until the mid 1950’s and those…
Read MoreLand – the Basis of Israeli Apartheid
In which other country would one group of citizens be prevented, through planning laws, from building houses, whilst the dominant group is allowed to build? In Israel not only are half the Palestinian villages ‘unrecognised’ and liable to instant demolition, but even those which are recognised are not permitted to expand. Apartheid? Perish the thought.…
Read MoreFilm Release: Two Villages, One Story
From Al-Araqib to Susiya (English)
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