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Members of the Abu Saab family seen after being evicted from their home by Israeli police in Jerusalem's Old City, February 17, 2019. (Activestills.org)

Palestinian family evicted from Jerusalem home to make room for settlers

The Abu Assab family home, located in Jerusalem’s Old City, is expected to be occupied by right-wing Jewish Israeli settlers. Nearly 200 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are under threat of eviction by settler organizations. By Aviv Tatarsky Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday…

By +972 Magazine February 18, 2019

An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a home in Ras al-Amud, East Jerusalem, September 13, 2017. (B'Tselem)

When the walls of your home come crumbling down

In East Jerusalem, entire families have their homes demolished and are thrown into the street. Just a few miles away, Israelis live without having to worry about losing everything they have. By Sahar Vardi Two children in uniform came down from the second floor to say hello to us before our ride left. With broken Arabic…

By +972 Magazine September 13, 2017

A Palestinian woman in front of policemen in Sheikh Jarrah, April 23 2010 (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

Former attorney general stands with Palestinians facing eviction

Former Attorney General Michael Ben Yair, whose former family home in Jerusalem is now occupied by Palestinians facing eviction, says he will reclaim the property in order to legally hand it over to them. The feeling of déjà vu that enveloped the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah last Thursday was especially somber. Here we…

By Orly Noy August 13, 2017

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A restaurant in West Jerusalem, closed in solidarity with Palestinians traders affected by the 'March of the Flags,' May 24, 2017.

Jerusalem Day: W. J’lm businesses shutter in solidarity with Palestinians

Each year on Jerusalem Day, Palestinian businesses located along the route of the March of the Flags are ordered by police to shut up shop during the parade. This year, Jewish business owners in West Jerusalem closed up early in solidarity. By Yael Marom On Wednesday afternoon, as on every Jerusalem Day, Palestinians in and…

By +972 Magazine May 24, 2017

An Israeli military police officer checks IDs at the checkpoint at the entrance to Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, December 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The cops at the checkpoint always remind me which side I’m on

Until I learned Hebrew, I saw Jews as frightening, scary, armed people who expelled us from our land in 1967, now working on finishing us off. Does that surprise you? By Suleiman Maswadeh My name is Suleiman, I am 22 years old and I was born in Jerusalem’s Old City. Despite the fact that it…

By +972 Magazine February 13, 2017

A Palestinian father stands in the ruins of his son's family home a few hours after it was demolished by Israeli authorities, East Jerusalem, May 20, 2013. He is holding a portrait from 1983 in which he and his own father are seen standing near their demolished home in the Anata neighborhood. Seven family members, including 5 children were displaced due to the demolition. (Activestills.org)

The home demolitions Israel’s media isn’t talking about

The Jerusalem municipality has repeatedly refused to come up with master plans for its Palestinian neighborhoods. The result? It has taken to demolishing illegally-built homes. By Michal Haramati and Sahar Vardi Forty Israeli Jews set out for a tour beyond Jerusalem’s hills of darkness last week, paying a visit to the neighborhood of Ein al-Loza in Silwan.…

By +972 Magazine February 6, 2017

Seven Nights 4: Contact point

Chapter four in the nighttime journey is a tale of two parties. For other nights click here. If you think the nights I skip in this chronicle are uneventful, think again fast. On Wednesday I was rushed to the airport with an immigration scandal. A young American who flew in to intern with a company for…

By Yuval Ben-Ami August 10, 2015

Jerusalemites protest against racism in Zion Square on August 18, 2012, two days after a Palestinian youth was seriously injured alongside two others in a mob attack by Israeli youth in crowded central Jerusalem. When paramedics sought to help the injured and get them medical help, bystanders shouted "death the Arabs" and taunted the rescuers, asking "Why do you want to help them? They're just Arabs". (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

A night of violence in West Jerusalem

For years now young Palestinian men have found themselves the targets of groups of Jewish youths roaming the streets of West Jerusalem on weekend nights. As warm weather returns, so are the attacks. One such attack raises the question: who are the police protecting? By Aviv Tatarsky (Translated by Ofer Neiman) Thursday night, Zion Square,…

By +972 Magazine May 25, 2015

All That's Left American occupation of West Jerusalem action (Photo by A. Daniel Roth)

The American occupation of West Jerusalem

A group of activists attempts to show Israelis and American tourists the occupation that’s taking place just a few blocks away, by simulating an American occupation of West Jerusalem. By Moriel Rothman What do you do when rammed by a man in an electric wheelchair who’s fundraising for needy Holocaust survivors? Just walk away. OK,…

By +972 Magazine May 10, 2014

Beit Safafa residents at construction site of Highway 4 (YotamRonen/Activestills)

A divided Palestinian neighborhood, torn in two by an Israeli highway

Beit Safafa is a Palestinian neighborhood just south of West Jerusalem, inside annexed and occupied East Jerusalem, all within the boundaries of Israel’s vast Jerusalem municipality. It is situated between the Green Line to its northern perimeter, and the Israeli settlement of Gilo on its southern perimeter. (To find Beit Safafa on Ir Amim’s map below, move your…

By Mairav Zonszein March 2, 2013

E1 doesn’t matter: One-state reality is here

Those who think that E1 is the nail in the coffin of the two-state ‘solution’ are willfully blind to the fact that a one-state outcome is already on the ground and that the Zionist militias started building it before there ever was an Israel. I know this is a little late. The big brouhaha about…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 27, 2012

A view of Jerusalem from the village of Beit Iksa. (photo: Yuval Ben-Ami)

Stepping over the line by accident: Still possible, ever more disturbing

A stroll west of West Jerusalem can lead to a surprising discovery, confronting the casual walker with various layers of the Palestinian tragedy. I just finished an ordeal at the Knesset. The next thing on the agenda was a long phone call, one that would last for at least an hour. Instead of walking about…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 26, 2012

Jerusalem encounter: racism seeps into my yard

I’d stepped into the alley to grab a few sage leaves for my tea. In my West Jerusalem neighborhood, the alley is more like a massive, shared garden. Branches loaded with plums, pomegranate, berries, apricots, oranges, lemons and olives bend over fences. Sage and rosemary are everywhere. When I first moved into the neighborhood, I…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat July 8, 2012