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Israel wipes out non-Jewish village, replaces with Jewish only plans

Posted on August 8, 2017September 25, 2018 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Israel wipes out non-Jewish village, replaces with Jewish only plans
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Israel wipes out non-Jewish village, replaces with Jewish only plans

No non-Jews allowed: New Israeli town of Hiran, to be built upon ruins of Bedouin village, is open to Jewish residents only contrary to state’s representations before Supreme Court

Hiran planned for construction in place of Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran; state had earlier committed: ‘Hiran is planned as a general community into which any Israeli of any background or religion may integrate’.

The new town that Israel is building in the Naqab (Negev) desert upon the ruins of a Bedouin village slated for demolition will be open to Israeli Jews only.

The new Jewish town of Hiran is slated for construction once the existing Bedouin community of Umm al-Hiran is demolished and its residents are forcibly displaced.

According to a document uncovered by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Hiran’s regulations are that: “an individual may be approved by the admissions committee and become a member of the Hiran cooperative society if they meet the following qualifications: a Jewish citizen or permanent resident of Israel; religiously observant according to Orthodox Jewish values…”

An Israeli government map illustrating the planned Jewish town of Hiran on top of the existing Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran. (Govmap). Photo courtesy of Adalah
An Israeli government map illustrating the planned Jewish town of Hiran on top of the existing Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran. (Govmap). Photo courtesy of Adalah

In a letter sent yesterday, 7 August 2017, to the National Planning and Building Council, Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara wrote that Hiran’s regulations allowing only Jews to apply for residency stand in opposition to the state’s earlier commitments before the Israeli Supreme Court that any Israeli citizen would be able to purchase a home in Hiran.

The state, in response to an appeal filed against the planned evacuation and demolition of Umm al-Hiran, had said, “Hiran is planned as a general community, into which any Israeli of any background or religion may integrate.”

The National Council is scheduled to convene today to discuss the state’s request to “organize” Bedouin residency in the Naqab region by moving 500 Umm al-Hiran residents into temporary housing in the nearby town of Hura.

Residents prepare for the demolition and evacuation of Umm al-Hiran on 22 November 2016. (Photo by Mati Milstein)
Residents prepare for the demolition and evacuation of Umm al-Hiran on 22 November 2016. (Photo by Mati Milstein)

An Israeli government map illustrating the planned Jewish town of Hiran on top of the existing Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran. (Govmap)

Attorney Bishara emphasized that Hiran’s regulations contradict the National Council’s own regulations which state that, “this is a community intended for a general population… [Umm al-Hiran residents] and members of any other population sector or public will have the option of obtaining plots and living in the new community.”

In parallel, Adalah Attorney Myssana Morany sent a letter yesterday, 7 August 2017, to Israeli Attorney General (AG) Avichai Mandelblit demanding that he move to prevent the allocation of plots in Hiran to the “core” group of religious Jewish Hiran settlers and act to ensure that residents of Umm al-Hiran are included in the planning of the new town to be built upon their lands.

Attorney Morany wrote that, “this land is being allocated [by the state] to a group that discriminates and is racially motivated and which limits membership to a specific national [ethnic] and religious group to the exclusion of other groups. There is no doubt that the allocation of plots to the Hiran core [group] constitutes discrimination against Arab citizens. The establishment of a town for Jews only is forbidden by law, stands in opposition to statements made by the state’s representatives to the Supreme Court, and contradicts the court ruling regarding the displacement of Umm al-Hiran residents – which was based on the statement that this would not be the establishment of an ethnically-based town.”

Residents prepare for the demolition and evacuation of Umm al-Hiran on 22 November 2016. (Photo by Mati Milstein)

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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.

Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.

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