#bedouins

( وَمِمَّنْ حَوْلَكُم مِّنَ الْأَعْرَابِ مُنْفِقُونَ وَمِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ مَرَدُوا عَلَى النِّفَاقِ لَا تَعْلَمُهُمْ نَحْنُ نَعْلَمُهُمْ سَنُعَذِّبُهُم مَّرْتَينِ

ثُمَّ يُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ عَذَابٍ عَظِيمٌ )🕊️.

صدق الله العظيم

by Channa Rifkin

Israeli Bedouin Arab Qaid Farhan al-Qadi was rescued by the Israel Defense Forces from a Hamas tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. He was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 and held in captivity since. In the face of this miraculous news, however, the mainstream media were quick to turn the event in relation to al-Qadi’s identity as a Bedouin, into a political narrative.

It’s a political narrative with distorted information about the Bedouin community in Israel as well as impossible-to-make assumptions about Hamas.

Here are some of the ones that HonestReporting caught this week.

Hamas “targets” everyone in their path, and this was proven on October 7

On October 7, Bedouins and other people of minority groups in Israel’s south on that day suffered at the hands of Hamas terrorists and its followers. This is evidence that even when Hamas send rockets from Gaza, they have no “specific” intent to avoid Muslims, Christians, Buddhists or any other people inside Israel.

The point is, despite the fact that al-Qadi is a devout Muslim himself, he was still brutally taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 and kept as a hostage in horrific conditions for 11 months in Gaza. He was one of five other Muslims taken hostage on that day, and two are still in captivity. There is also one additional Israeli Bedouin civilian, Hisham al-Sayed, who has been infamously held hostage by Hamas for a decade. 

Despite the families’ pleas for Hamas to send them home in good faith as fellow Muslims, the response was silence.

For fuck's sake, there are scores of Thai visa workers sitting in Hamas tunnels who were there trying to sustain a family back home.

We are not Colonizers.

We are Refugees.

We are Indigenous.