Shepherd Hotel

East Jerusalem: Friday protest moves to Shepherd Hotel

The weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah took place in front of the Shepherd Hotel yesterday, where demolitions began last Sunday to make way for the construction of a Jewish residential complex owned by Irving Moskowitz. The demolition was met with sharp criticism by the US and European community, however the Prime Minister Office’s response is…

By Mairav Zonszein January 15, 2011

Palestinian child faces Israeli riot control police in East Jerusalem (photo: Lisa Goldman)

Settlement of Sheikh Jarrah not ‘bad politics,’ it’s simply bad

Jeffrey Goldberg believes that the Jewish settlement in Sheikh Jarrah is “not necessarily” in the best Jewish self-interest. Why not? Because peace is important, and without a Palestinian East Jerusalem, there will be no Palestinian state, and hence, no possibility of peace. Israel will either cease to be a Jewish state (through the absorption of…

By +972 Magazine January 14, 2011

Shepherd Hotel demolished, to be replaced by settlement

Bulldozers razed a big chunk of the Shepherd Hotel in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah early morning Sunday to make way for a new residential complex for Jews (a.k.a settlement). The Shepherd Hotel was owned by Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini until 1967, when Israel expropriated it under the Absentee Property Law (Read…

By Mairav Zonszein January 9, 2011

Latest