{"id":241007,"date":"2023-08-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=241007"},"modified":"2023-08-05T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T04:26:20","slug":"israeli-court-orders-eviction-of-bedouin-village-for-new-predominantly-jewish-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/08\/israeli-court-orders-eviction-of-bedouin-village-for-new-predominantly-jewish-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Court Orders Eviction of Bedouin Village for New Predominantly Jewish Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The judge rejected the claim of racial segregation claiming each individual has the right to purchase property in the new neighborhood, but it\u2019s irrelevant for an impoverished community whose members intend on living together.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_241008\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/palestine-israel-paju.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241008\" class=\"wp-image-241008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/palestine-israel-paju.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/palestine-israel-paju.webp 840w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/palestine-israel-paju-300x174.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/palestine-israel-paju-768x446.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-241008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: PAJU<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>31 Jul 2023 &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0An Israeli court has ordered the evacuation of some 550 residents of an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, to build a new neighborhood for the city of\u00a0Dimona.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Be\u2019er\u00a0Sheva Magistrate\u2019s Court accepted the Israel Land Authority\u2019s claims earlier this week, requiring the residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Ras\u00a0Jrabah\u00a0to evacuate by March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Basing his ruling on aerial photos and other evidence, Judge Menachem\u00a0Shahak\u00a0rejected the villagers\u2019 claims that they have been living in the area since the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2022-01-31\/ty-article-magazine\/.premium\/documents-reveal-israels-intent-to-forcibly-expel-bedouin-from-their-lands\/0000017f-e30e-d9aa-afff-fb5e038a0000\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0British Mandatory Palestine<\/a>.\u00a0Shahak\u00a0claimed the evidence presented in court shows that the area was first inhabited only during the 1970s.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-02-22\/ty-article\/.premium\/data-reveals-17-of-bedouins-dont-reach-12th-grade-compared-to-3-of-israeli-jews\/00000186-7802-dcba-a19e-fa33ff330000\" ><strong>Data reveals 17% of Bedouins don\u2019t reach 12th grade, compared to 3% of Israeli Jews<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/twilight-zone\/2023-06-24\/ty-article-magazine\/.highlight\/the-morning-50-israelis-15-of-them-kids-became-homeless\/00000188-eab5-d5fc-ab9d-fbfd15c30000\" ><strong>The morning 50 Israelis, 15 of them kids, became homeless<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-01-31\/ty-article\/.premium\/new-israeli-government-to-determine-fate-of-west-bank-bedouin-village-slated-for-eviction\/00000186-0728-df90-a3cf-f7bcb3630000\" ><strong>New Israeli government to determine fate of West Bank Bedouin village slated for eviction<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>He also ordered the villagers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also ordered the villagers to pay 117,000 shekels in legal charges. Their lawyers, all from the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said they would appeal to the district court.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Land Authority (ILA) first tried to evacuate the village 30 years ago. The current suit was filed again by the ILA due to the\u00a0Dimona\u00a0municipality\u2019s intention to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2022-03-31\/ty-article\/.premium\/millions-of-acres-for-israeli-jews-in-the-negev-next-to-nothing-for-the-bedouin\/00000180-5bd4-db1e-a1d4-dff5098a0000\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0build a new neighborhood<\/a>\u00a0where the village now stands, which is expected to contain about 11,000 housing units on around 2,471 acres of land, with half the area intended to be built.<\/p>\n<p>The villagers asked to be integrated into the new neighborhood in a rural complex and adapted to their lifestyle. The judge rejected the request on the grounds that he cannot intervene because only the Bedouin Authority is authorized to offer them solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also rejected the residents\u2019 claims of racial segregation and said that each of the evacuees has the right to purchase land and housing units in the new neighborhood. However, the plan was irrelevant for a community whose members do not have the financial opportunity to do so and intend on living together.<\/p>\n<p>The Bedouin Settlement Authority has offered compensation to the villagers for their eviction with 5,360 square foot lots in the towns of Qasr al-Sir, but this was rejected because these lands are amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/business\/real-estate\/2022-04-26\/ty-article\/.premium\/plan-to-set-up-rural-communities-in-israels-negev-would-block-bedouin-expansion\/00000180-69c3-d892-a7c1-fdf340480000\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an ownership dispute<\/a>. The authority also proposed to transfer them to the Negev town of Arara, but this was also denied because it could damage the social fabric of the village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll move us to a place we\u2019re not used to and then the problems will start,\u201d said Ras\u00a0Jrabah\u00a0resident Ibrahim Al\u00a0Hawashleh\u00a0last year to Haaretz. \u201cMany Bedouin who\u2019ve moved to other Bedouin cities have deteriorated into crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no crime, violence or drugs here,\u201d Ibrahim added. \u201cWe won\u2019t let them change our lives and our culture. We\u2019ll stay and raise animals and earn our living from animals. That\u2019s how we were raised. We\u2019re Bedouin and the sons of Bedouin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freij Al\u00a0Hawashleh, one of the elders of Ras\u00a0Jrabah, also told Haaretz last year that \u201cAll our lives we\u2019ve helped people from\u00a0Dimona\u00a0and have had a good relationship. We supplied them with water from the well, goat\u2019s milk, they bought sugar and tea from us and got any help they wanted. What happened now that they want to house people at our expense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to take our land and humiliate us and they expect us to be silent, but we\u2019ll stay here and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/2022-06-01\/ty-article\/we-will-die-here-bedouin-village-fights-israel-resettlement-plan\/00000181-2077-da91-a1fd-6ef790580000\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we\u2019ll die here<\/a>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Adalah Center said in response that the ruling is \u201can illustration of how Israel\u2019s land regime and the legal proceedings establishing it, create a methodical system of racial segregation that amounts to the crime of apartheid according to international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center further stated that, as in the cases of other Bedouin villages that were displaced, such as Umm al-Hiran in the Negev, \u201cthe verdict clearly shows that the rights protected by Israel\u2019s Basic Laws are not sufficient to defend the constitutional rights of Palestinians, or to heal the racist principles at the basis of Israel\u2019s settlement policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-07-28\/ty-article\/.premium\/israeli-court-orders-eviction-of-bedouin-village-for-new-predominantly-jewish-neighborhood\/00000189-9bad-de97-af9f-fbaf00500000\" >https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-07-28\/ty-article\/.premium\/israeli-court-orders-eviction-of-bedouin-village-for-new-predominantly-jewish-neighborhood\/00000189-9bad-de97-af9f-fbaf00500000<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PAJU NOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The illegal and immoral eviction of a Bedouin village to make way for a Jewish neighborhood is a prime example of ethnic cleansing given a legal framework via an apartheid system based on institutional discrimination against non-Jewish populations. This is simply Jewish supremacy dressed up as \u2018democracy\u2019 but it is Democracy-For-Jews-Only. This should be viewed in the light of tens of thousands of (Jewish) Israeli protestors railing against the judicial overhaul of a Supreme Court and court system which enforces the rule of Israeli apartheid. Note that there are no Palestinians or Bedouin among the thousands of Israeli protestors. One can understand why. Democracy for Jews only is no democracy at all. If Israel\u2019s apartheid system constitutes \u2018democracy,\u2019 then it can be stated that the South African apartheid system was also a \u2018democracy\u2019 \u2013 for White Afrikaners only! We know that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The <\/em>Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)<em> is a human rights organization that explicitly recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to national existence and to live in security. We condemn all violations of human rights. <\/em>PAJU <em>was co-founded in Montreal by Bruce Katz, a Jewish Canadian and Rezeq Faraj, a Palestinian Canadian who have been friends for more than 25 years. Our group is comprised of Jews, Palestinians and other Canadians of good conscience who work together to promote peace in the Middle East and to educate the public on the Palestinian question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/paju.org\/israeli-court-orders-eviction-of-bedouin-village-for-new-predominantly-jewish-neighborhood\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; paju.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Jul 2023 &#8211;\u00a0The illegal and immoral eviction of a Bedouin village to make way for a Jewish neighborhood is a prime example of ethnic cleansing given a legal framework via an apartheid system based on institutional discrimination against non-Jewish populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":241008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[928,532,101,100,2414,2416,767,85,2897,99,92,886],"class_list":["post-241007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-colonialism","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine-israel","tag-sociocide","tag-structural-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241010,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241007\/revisions\/241010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}