Urgent Action: Help Bedouin Israelis Stay in Their Homes
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 11:39PM To follow up about the Bedouin rights action this past week.
The Knesset was supposed to vote on the "Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev" yesterday, but due to a crowded legislative docket, the bill's first reading was postponed until next Monday, June 10.
This give us another week to organize our communities to respond, speak out, and write to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid, and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Meir Cohen.
If the Knesset passes this bill, some 30,000 to 40,000 Bedouin Israelis in more than two dozen villages in the Negev will be at risk of being evicted from their homes and having their villages demolished.
We are close to reaching our goal of collecting at least 1,000 signatures in opposition to this bill before its first reading (in the last four days more than 700 people took the action). Help us surpass our goal by using our "tell-a-friend" page at http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5149/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_friend_KEY=9605 to share the action or by passing along the action link http://www.bit.ly/BEDOUIN to people you know. Hopefully, working together, we will be able to stop this bill.
Sincerely,
Josh Bloom
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Joshua Bloom
Director of Israel Programs
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America)
333 7th Avenue, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-845-5205
E-mail: jbloom@truah.org
Web: http://www.truah.org
Twitter: @TruahRabbis
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