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Tell the JNF what you think: Sign the petition for Bedouin rights in the Negev
Meretz USA invites you to join us and many Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, in support of equal rights, sustainability, and a development plan for Israel's Negev that does not dispossess Israel's Bedouin citizens.
We encourage you to add your name to an open letter to the leaders of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), calling upon them to no longer aid and abet the discriminatory policy of the Government of Israel and the Israel Land Administration (ILA).
Join our urgent call to the leadership of JNF to:
1. Stop forestation activities in areas of existing Bedouin villages as well as on lands for which Bedouin have made legal claims of ownership, pending final court decisions.
2. Fund projects for Israel’s Bedouin citizens and communities at levels that are proportional to the size of this population in the Negev-nearly 30%-recognizing the contribution of the Bedouin to the flourishing of the Negev.
3. Join with human rights organizations in Israel to allow the Bedouin to live on their traditional lands, as they have for many generations.
4. Reconsider JNF’s development plans for the Negev and commit, henceforth, to working toward truly sustainable development of the Negev for ALL its inhabitants, Jews and Arabs alike.
Meretz USA is co-sponsoring this petition with 35 other Israeli and American organizations, including the Jewish Alliance for Change, Rabbis for Human Rights, the Shalom Center, Sikkuy - The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, Bimkom: Planners for Planning Rights, and The Regional Council of Unrecognized Bedouin Villages.
Sign the petition here.
Learn more about the issue:
Haaretz: 'JNF using trees to thwart Bedouin growth in Negev'
Joseph Dana (972 blog): The Bedouin village of Al-Araquib is destroyed for the fifth time
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