On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestral lands and into seven Indian reservation-style communities the Israeli government has constructed for them. The land will then be open for Jewish settlers, including young couples in the army and those who may someday be evacuated from the West Bank after a peace treaty is signed. For now, the Israeli government intends to uproot as many villages as possible and erase them from the map by establishing “facts on the ground” in the form of JNF forests. See video of of al-Arakib’s demolition here.
via The “Summer Camp Of Destruction:” Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town.
Not seeing a repeat of the article T Pessah posted on Mondoweiss, I'm commenting here.
1. Pessah is a student, not a sociologist. His degrees or tenuous relationship to same does not impress me.
2. Pessah is apparently in luuv with his sense of Jewish privilege. No wonder Weiss posted Pessah — Weiss is enamored of Jewish "privilege."
We Americans who do not flit back & forth between US and Israel don't see the clout that Jews in US wield as 'privilege,' we see it as intimidation. Censoring. Silencing. Bullying. That's not privilege, that's the behavior of a two-bit gangster.
We Americans who are paying the taxes that Israeli Jews and their American counterparts are extorting from US don't need your permission to delegitimize Israel, whether by BDS or other means — I think BDS is a gambit that Israel would love to see tried, so that Israel can laugh at BDSers while it hasbaras and freiers and pilpuls and extorts even more money from US taxpayers, just to add to their Israel-induced misery.