Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Convicted Bedouin-Rights Activist
Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a leading activist in the fight over land rights in the unrecognized Arab-Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, leaving in place a 10 month jail sentence against 69-year-old Sheikh Sayekh Abu Madi’am al-Touri for trespassing on his own land. The court rejected Abu Madi’am’s argument that the state was criminalizing…