Two days ago, on Wednesday 18 January, Israeli forces conducted a dawn raid to demolish the village of Umm al-Hiran in Israel. This resulted in several al houses demolished and two deaths. In view of this escalation of the situation, we need you to take action and write to your MP asking them to bring this …
This is an urgent appeal to help save the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the northern Negev. The Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to be sending his army’s bulldozers in at dawn on Tuesday 22nd November to demolish this peaceful Bedouin village in Israel. This has now been delayed, reportedly due to strong …
This is an urgent request for action as the communities of two Bedouin villages are under the immediate threat of demolition. Earlier this year we wrote to you about two Bedouin villages under threat of demolition. Almost six thousand of you wrote to your MPs asking them to demand the foreign secretary protests in the strongest terms …
Join us for Nakba Week Please join us for Nakba Week of Action, a series of events and actions commemorating the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’ in English) the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. During the creation of the state of Israel, around 750,000 (90%) Palestinians were driven out of their homes and never allowed to return. Whilst the rights to campaign for …
Join Gillian Slovo, Antony Gormley, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Julie Christie, Brian Eno, Bella Freud, Peter Gabriel, John Akomfrah OBE, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Bidisha, Jeremy Deller, Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman, MP, Jemima Khan, Dr. Susie Orbach and many others by signing our letter against the Prawer Plan. John Akomfrah OBE artist, film director, writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author, journalist Rodney Bickerstaffe Bidisha writer, broadcaster Howard …
Palestinians are uniting to oppose the Prawer Plan, and they urgently need our support. If the Prawer Plan is enacted it will forcibly remove up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their homes and villages in the Naqab (the Negev). Although it has not yet been passed fully by the Israeli Parliament, villages are already under threat with a …
Palestinians called on us to join them in a ‘day of rage’ on Thursday 1st August against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Naqab (also known as the Negev). The protest is to stop Israel from going ahead with their plan to ethnically cleanse 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their homes and land. If you haven’t already Send …