East Jersualem

Schoolchildren in EAST JERUSALEM (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

City Hall gets ever more creative in ignoring E. Jerusalem school shortage

As the Jerusalem municipality is gradually forced to acknowledge a catastrophic shortage of classrooms in the city’s Palestinian districts, it also finds brave new ways to avoid tackling it. By Aviv Tatarsky Let’s start with the bottom line: there is a shortage of 2,000 classrooms in East Jerusalem schools. In effect, that means Israel prevents more than…

By +972 Magazine September 2, 2016

The Palestinian soccer league: A microcosm of a national struggle

Originally founded in 1928, the Palestinian Football Association endured the many trials of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ahead of the conclusion of an eventful season, we look at one of the only national institutions that unifies the Palestinians these days. By Yoni Mendel The Palestinian soccer league is experiencing one of the most dramatic moments in…

By +972 Magazine May 1, 2015

WATCH: ‘My Neighbourhood’ – the human impact of settlements in Sheikh Jarrah

Just Vision’s Peabody Award winning film, My Neigbhourhood (directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi), tells the story of Mohammed El Kurd, a Palestinian teenager in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah whose family is forced to share a section of their home with Israeli settlers. Mohammed comes-of-age in the midst of unrelenting tension…

By +972 Magazine May 17, 2013

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