Khalil, due to unexpected circumstances, will arrive in London on Friday (tomorrow) and stay until after his talk on Thursday. He flies out on Thursday night. We urgently seek members or friends who would host him for a few nights. It doesn't have to be for the duration, but stretches of at least two nights would be helpful, as we do not want him to constantly have to move round. Please let us know if you can host Khalil in London. If you are out of London and can help him get to you, and hopefully arrange a little talk for him, that would be great too, but at the moment the urgent thing is to simply accommodate him. Please let me know ASAP whether you can help. On a personal note I'd like to add that Khalil is a charming, fascinating and urbane man. His work for his community of Negev Bedouins is invaluable and awe inspiring. It would be a privilege and joy to host him. Warm regards, Daphna and the ICAHD UK team.
Khalil Alamour is the Director of the Alhuquq Centre for Empowerment and Human Rights. He is an activist and an advocate for the social and political rights of Bedouins in the Negev. He is a teacher who a few years ago qualified as a lawyer to represent his community in the Israeli courts. Despite a few impressive victories, the determination of the current Israeli government to push the Bedouins out of the Negev seems stronger than ever.
From his home village of Alsira in the Negev, Khalil can see the abundant water and constant electricity supplied to the Jewish inhabitants of the Negev including to lone Jewish farmers, but which are denied to Bedouin communities. Meanwhile, other Bedouin communities under Israel's control, such as Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, face imminent threat of displacement and demolition. The Israeli government incites the Jewish population against the Bedouins in both the state of Israel and within the West Bank and presents them as a "lawless" and "violent" people to justify their persecution.
Khalil Alamour will speak of the current predicament of the Bedouins in the Negev, their struggle to maintain their rights, and the importance of support and solidarity from activists around the world. Come and find out what you can do to help stop further demolitions and displacement.
ICAHD UK's Director, Daphna Baram, will introduce Khalil and moderate the Q&A.
ICAHD UK, BM ICAHD UK, London WC1N 3XX Email: ** info@icahduk.org
Dear ICAHD UK members,
I am writing to ask for your help on an urgent matter. As you hopefully remember, we are hosting a talk with Khalil AlAmour (https://icahd.org/2018/06/09/28-june-2018-icahd-uk-hosts-kalil-alamours-talk-bedouins-urbanization-or-forced-displacement/) on Thursday 28 June at the Amnesty in London. Khalil is a great friend of ICAHD UK'S and whenever our friends and members visited him they were received with fantastic hospitality.
ICAHD UK PRESENTS - KHALIL ALAMOUR
"The Naqab/Negev Bedouin in Israel: Urbanization or Forced Displacement?" Thursday 28 June 7pm, Amnesty International, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA Under the premise of "modernization" Israel is trying to push Palestinian Bedouins off their land, away from their agricultural way of life, and into crowded crime-stricken townships which offer no employment. Recently, following years of struggle, the people of Umm Al-Hiran were bullied into sacrificing their rights by signing contracts to leave their homes. They must be gone by September to make way for the Jewish-only town of Hiran that will be built on their land while they are displaced to Hura where they will face an unclear future. Their request to remain in a separate neighbourhood next to the new town was rejected with scorn. Which village is next in line to be pushed off its land?
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