Polygamy violates the basic human rights of women involved in it. It is an institution that is usually shaped by multiple factors that are not limited to gender discrimination, such as race, ethnicity, and economic status. Within the Bedouin community in Israel, polygamy is the product of internal and State-endorsed patriarchy, and of discriminatory land policies and the forced relocation of Bedouin tribes in the Negev. This article criticizes Israel’s approach to polygamy by highlighting its two key failures: the failure to view polygamy as a form of intersectional discrimination, portraying it solely as a cultural issue; and treating polygamy primarily as a threat to demographic and other controversial interests and prioritizing the latter over the rights of the victims of polygamy.

一夫多妻制侵犯了参与其中的妇女的基本人权。它是一个通常由多种因素构成的机构，这些因素不仅限于性别歧视，例如种族，种族和经济地位。在以色列的贝都因人社区内，一夫多妻制是内部和国家认可的父权制，歧视性土地政策以及内盖夫的贝都因部落被迫搬迁的产物。本文通过强调以色列的两个主要失败之处来批评以色列的一夫多妻制：一夫一妻制未能将一夫多妻制视为一种交叉歧视形式，仅将其描述为一个文化问题；一夫多妻制主要是对人口和其他有争议利益的威胁，并将后者置于一夫多妻制受害者的权利之上。