In light of the controversy I stirred up with my blog post Does Israel Have A Profoundly Democratic Political System?, I thought I would provide some pointers for further research.
A Google search of Prawer Law gives about 195,000 results.
Below are the links on the first page of search results, along with some biased excerpt selections from some of the articles.
Demolition and Eviction of Bedouin Citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev) – The Prawer Plan
Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev
The bill is described as part of a campaign to develop the Negev; bring about better integration of Bedouin in Israeli society, and significantly reduce the economic and social gaps between the Bedouin population in the Negev and Israeli society.[2] By contrast, Jewish families have been encouraged to settle in this part of the country to make the desert bloom and small, gated farming communities – fully serviced with water and electricity – have sprung up close to the Bedouin villages.[8]
The “Criticism” section of the above WikiPedia article says the following:
A United Nations committee has called for the withdrawal of the draft law that would move 30,000 Bedouin living in the Negev to permanent, existing Bedouin communities. Furthermore, the United Nations human rights chief urged Israel to reconsider a proposed law that would result in the demolition of up to 35 Bedouin villages, displacing as many as 40,000 members of these communities from their ancestral homes. “If this bill becomes law, it will accelerate the demolition of entire Bedouin communities, forcing them to give up their homes, denying them their rights to land ownership, and decimating their traditional cultural and social life in the name of development,” Ms. Pillay said. According to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Law for the Regulation of the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev is discriminatory and would legalize racist practices. Further critics of Prawer Plan include an independent human rights organization and legal center, Adalah Adalah which works to promote and defend the rights of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, 1.2 million people, or 20% of the population, as well as Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The center describes the Bill – which was approved by the Israeli Knesset on 25 June 2013 with 43 votes for and 40 votes against, as discriminatory. It adds that the Bill calls for the mass expulsion of the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of Israel. If fully implemented, the Prawer-Begin Plan will result in the destruction of 35 “unrecognized”Arab Bedouin villages, the forced displacement of up to 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel, and the dispossession of their historical lands in the Naqab. Despite the Arab Bedouin community’s complete rejection of the plan and strong disapproval from the international community and human rights groups, the Prawer Plan is happening now. Adalah further elaborates that Prawer-Begin Bill is an unacceptable proposition that entrenches the state’s historic injustice against its Bedouin citizens.
The European Parliament heavily criticized the plan.[9] In January 2012 hundreds of people protested the Prawer Plan, calling for the relocation of about 30,000 Beduins to recognized villages, in front of the Beersheba courthouse.[10] In September 2013 both Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued statements condemning Israel’s ongoing destruction of Palestinian homes and other structures, particularly in the occupied West Bank and the Negev desert in southern Israel.[citation needed]
Under the Prawer Plan it is estimated that some 30,000 to 40,000 people in at least 25 of the unrecognized Bedouin villages would be forcibly relocated. The Israeli government would then level these villages.
The Israeli government officially announced that Knesset discussions about the Prawer plan will be halted. The meaning of this is that the government has backed away from attempts to pass the Prawer law and to threaten the Arab residents of the Naqab (Negev). This is first and foremost a huge victory for the popular struggle – the struggle of the Bedouins of the Naqab, the struggle of the determined young women and men who led the struggle, and for everyone who identified with the struggle and supported it. The radical right-wing also wanted to bury this law, but this occurred only when the regime understood that the Naqab will not resign itself and will not accept the law. It is alright to rejoice!
Prawer Plan buries the two state solution
Prawer Plan Back in Knesset, Causing Heated Debate
The controversial Prawer Plan to resettle residents of illegal Bedouin settlements underwent a second and third reading on Monday, despite earlier announcements that the bill would be dropped.
The plan would grant Negev Bedouins 180,000 dunam (45,000 acres) of state-owned land for free, as well as “compensation” for their relocation from illegal outposts.
The bill garnered controversy from both sides of the political spectrum. Arab and leftist groups objected to the forced relocation of 30-40,000 Bedouin Arabs; nationalist MKs argued that the plan rewarded the Bedouin population for engaging in illegal land grabs.
Government Drops Prawer Plan for Bedouins
Netanyahu vows to advance Beduin resettlement plan despite violent protests
Adalah: Withdrawal of the Prawer Plan bill is a major achievement
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to research the rest of the 195,000 items.