"Controversy over Golan wind turbine project prompts Israeli government to pause construction"

The head of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, has warned the government to stop the work to construct wind turbines in the Golan Heights, or face “a reaction the country has hitherto not seen.” The Druze community sees the project as a threat to their agrarian way of life, an encroachment on ancestral lands, and a solidification of what they view as Israel’s occupation of the territory. Tarif also urged Israel’s leaders to annul laws that discriminate against the Druze, which he said included the controversial 2018 nation-state law and the so-called Kaminitz Law of 2017.