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The residents of Jabal Al-Baba Bedouin community, east of Occupied Jerusalem held a rally a week after receiving an eviction notice from the Israeli authorities. The protest, in cooperation with the Avazz organisation and international activists aimed to send the message they are refusing Israeli orders and are determined to remain on their land. The […]
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Video: Bedouin community resists imminent house demolitions and Israel’s E1 project
November 28th, 2017 
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No Comments »Israeli occupation demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 119th time
October 4th, 2017 Awake Goy Israeli occupation forces demolished Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in Al-Naqab on Tuesday for 119th time since 2010. Aziz al-Turi, a local activist said that the Israeli bulldozers accompanied by Israeli police forces raided the village and demolished its makeshift homes “without any consideration for their residents, and despite of the bad weather conditions.” “The […]
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Posted in World News Tags: 119th, bedouin, demolish, forces, israeli, palestinian, village No Comments »israel rendering Bedouin stateless
September 6th, 2017 Awake Goy Israel rendering Bedouin stateless Bedouin women react to the destruction of houses on January 18, 2017 in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, which is not recognized by the Israeli government, near Beersheba. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP How Israeli citizens are becoming stateless Palestinian lawmakers, residents say an Israeli policy rendering thousands of Bedouins stateless […]
‘Honor killing’: Bedouin woman ‘murdered by relatives,’ body burned in Israel
June 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Hanan al-Bahiri went missing on May 3 after speaking on the phone to her mother on the way home in the town of Lakiya. Her mother, Dalal al-Bahiri, contacted the police, prompting a search. The woman indicated her suspicion of Hanan’s uncle and two other relatives, Haaretz reports. The victim’s uncle, Younis al-Bahiri, 45, his […]
Posted in World News Tags: bedouin, burned, honor, killing, murdered, relatives, woman No Comments »Israel blocks Bedouin road, prevents 100 kids from school
June 13th, 2017 Awake Goy Israeli occupation has installed guardrail on Israeli highway, isolating Palestinian Bedouin community, preventing around 100 children from schools. A report issued by the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said that the Israeli occupation effectively sealed off Umm Bidoun, a Palestinian Bedouin community in Al-Naqab, by blocking off the only dirt road […]
‘We shall remain’: Bedouin of Jabal al-Baba face an uphill battle to keep their land
May 11th, 2017 Awake Goy Forty-two-year-old Atallah Mazara’a from the Jahalin Bedouin tribe recalls a time when residents were free to move, unhindered by concrete walls and unobtainable permits. “Life was so simple before the [separation barrier] because you could leave for vacation, for weddings; you could take your car and go to Jerusalem,” Mazara’a said. “You could pray Maghrib [prayer just after […]
Lessons on living and dying from a man who has seen 12,000 deaths
June 23rd, 2016 Awake Goy What Can We Learn from the Dying? Rooted in the hearts of many Hindus is the belief that if you breathe your last in Kashi (Varanasi) you attain what is popularly known as ‘Kashi Labh’ or ‘the fruit of Kashi’—moksh or “release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma”. Kashi […]
Posted in World News Tags: bedouin, demolitions, driving, home, israel, negevs, Palestinians No Comments »Before Nightclub Shooting, FBI Pursued Questionable Florida “Terror” Suspects
June 13th, 2016 Awake Goy While it’s unclear whether gunman Omar Mateen’s inspiration was hatred of gays, the Islamic State, or something else, attackers like him are the intended targets of the FBI’s post-9/11 prevention program. Federal law enforcement’s top priority today is to stop the attacker of tomorrow. But Mateen’s mass shooting is an example of how […]
Video: #BDS is “democracy in action”
June 8th, 2016 Awake Goy Video: BDS is “democracy in action” On Monday I spoke with Sharmini Peries of The Real News about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Signed in the presence of Israeli government and Israel lobby officials on Sunday, the measure orders New York bureaucrats to create a blacklist […]
Posted in World News Tags: 1000, bedouin, demolished, israel, Jewish, mentality, structures, year No Comments »‘Say Hello to Zenobia’: A report from Palmyra rising from the ashes
April 20th, 2016 Awake Goy ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the people of that beleaguered country and for the world. However, the Syrian tragedy is far from over and rebuilding the country, even under the best circumstances of an end to the war, will take many years. Our little international delegation — […]
‘Say Hello to Zenobia’: A report from Palmyra rising from the ashes
April 20th, 2016 Awake Goy ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the people of that beleaguered country and for the world. However, the Syrian tragedy is far from over and rebuilding the country, even under the best circumstances of an end to the war, will take many years. Our little international delegation — […]
13-year-old Palestinian boy shot in head (and no one is executed for the attack)
April 5th, 2016 Awake Goy Violence / Detention — West Bank / Jerusalem Israeli forces shoot, injure 13-year-old Palestinian in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 2 Apr – Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teen in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was walking to school in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, […]
Posted in World News Tags: bank, bedouin, demolishes, home, israel, video, village, west No Comments »Meanwhile In San Francisco – $400/Month To Live In A Box In Someone’s Living Room
March 31st, 2016 Awake Goy We’ve spent quite a lot of time documenting the inexorable rise in housing prices across some of the world’s red hot markets. Take Vancouver, for instance, where according to National Bank, one third of all homes sold in 2015 went to Chinese buyers whose voracious demand has driven prices into the stratosphere […]
Posted in World News Tags: 40th, bedouin, Commemoration, day, evictions, land, march, negev, Palestinians, protest No Comments »Pollster Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference most US Jewish students don’t see Israel as ‘civilized’ or a ‘democracy’
February 22nd, 2016 Awake Goy Here’s the story in Hebrew. In a nutshell: Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel. American right wing pollster Frank Luntz [who has earlier stated that Zionism is becoming a dirty word for US elites] presented statistics: – The Ministry of Tourism’s attempt to market Israel […]
Posted in World News Tags: bedouin, community, demolishes, elementary, israel, Jerusalem, school No Comments »Israel arrests human rights campaigner Ezra Nawi and puts gag order on case as part of growing ‘witch hunt’ against activists
January 20th, 2016 Awake Goy In the last nine days, Israeli authorities have cracked down on activists associated with Ta’ayush, the Jewish-Palestinian partnership that works to stop settlement growth in the occupied territories. There is a gag order on the case, but details have emerged. Israeli authorities have arrested Ezra Nawi, the great campaigner against human rights abuses in the […]
Posted in World News Tags: alhiran, approves, bedouin, court, demolition, hiran, israeli, Jewish, supreme, town, umm, village No Comments »Israeli society is crumbling under the weight of occupation
October 19th, 2015 Awake Goy According to classical political theory, human beings enter into a social contract and renounce their right to exercising unlimited violence in order not to fall prey to the violence of others. In Thomas Hobbes’s vision of the Leviathan, they invest the sovereign with that right, so as to be better protected from arbitrary force in […]
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