Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
פורום דו-קיום בנגב לשוויון אזרחי
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NCF calls the SDP to withdraw its involvement in the German States Forest

24.12.2012

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHapM4Xeetg&feature=youtu.be

The German Social-Democratic party (SPD) published a call for donations for trees planting in the German States Forest last week. The German States Forest is located in the Israeli Negev, and it was planted on lands of Bedouin citizens of the country. Negev Coexistence Forum wrote a letter to the party’s members, urging them to stop the donations project, and explaining the complex reality in the Negev. In addition, NCF produced a video in cooperation with Dr. Awad Abu Freich, one of the owners of the lands where the forest is planted. In the video, Dr. Abu Freich describes the injustice caused to his family and to him, as a result of the planting of the German States Forest, and explains how expulsion of Bedouin from their land is being done through practices of forestation.

Click here to read the letter

Click here to watch the video