Tel Aviv protest against the Discriminatory Policies of Housing in Israel toward Bedouins

The chants: "No to house demolitions, recognize the [unrecognized Bedouin] villages"
"The conclusions of the [Prawer] committee: racism and discrimination"
"There are no unrecognized villages, there are only racist laws"
"There is no unrecognized village, these are lies of the regime"
"We want housing and recognition [of the villages], not banishment and uprooting [of Bedouin villages]"

The Bedouin man tells the policeman: "I swear to you on everything that is dear to me, on my children, my village was demolished 29 times [he's referring to al-Arakib]."


Tel Aviv, September 18, 2011. We marched from HaBima to the government complex, HaKirya, to protest against the Prawer report. If it is carried out, 30,000 Bedouins will lose their homes in the Negev as their villages will be demolished, many Bedouins would lose their land, and Bedouins would be forbidden from living beyond a certain area in the Negev. About 500 Jews and Arabs (Bedouins) participated in the protests.

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• Bedouin
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• demonstration
• dispossession
• Negev
• Tel-Aviv
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