Bedouins And The Government Of Israel

EDM number 2195 in 2010-12, proposed by Bob Russell on 15/09/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Ethnic groups, International politics and government and Middle East.

That this House is appalled at proposals by the Israeli government to re-settle Bedouin people living in so-called unrecognised villages in the Negev Desert into larger recognised settlements; notes that this will affect tens of thousands of Bedouin, and is a policy more in keeping with historic American Indian reservations and South Africa in the apartheid era than what should happen in the 21st century; condemns the Israeli government for what is tantamount to ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Bedouin way of life; and calls on the Government to seek the urgent support of other European Union countries for a concerted approach, also involving the United Nations, to stop Israel proceeding with its attack on Bedouin people under its control.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.