Making the desert bloom? Israel’s greenwashing in the Negev

This month, Bedouins in the Naqab (the Negev) faced off against Israeli-state-backed bulldozers aggressively attempting to seize their land. The official line of the Israeli state is that it is preparing the land for “afforestation” projects, but locals contend the government’s tree-planting initiative is merely a ploy to seize land from the indigenous population. “We are not against planting trees, but not in this way,” Adv. Khalil Alamour, a Bedouin activist, said. “Because the forestation here is a tool to put new facts on the ground — not to help the people.” Alamour described how the Jewi…

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