Guardian: Privatising Zionism.
- the Guardian: Neve Gordon and Erez Tzfadia.
- Photo: Wadi al-Naam, unrecognized Negev, Bedouin Village, February 2006.
Increasingly, Israel is handing over its ‘Judaisation’ project to private firms
– leading to a corrosion of accountability…
For less than four dollars an hour, the Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from the homes and loaded them on to trucks. As they worked diligently alongside the many policemen who had come to secure the destruction of 30 houses in two unrecognised Bedouin villages, Bedouin teenagers stood by watching their homes being emptied.
When all the belongings had been removed, the bulldozers rapidly destroyed the homes. All those present, Jews and Bedouins, were Israeli citizens; together they learned an important lesson in the discrimination characterising civic life in the Jewish state.
