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What my daughter’s school trip taught me about anti-occupation activism
Our liberal Tel Aviv school wanted students to visit a project run by a settler group in occupied East Jerusalem. Here's what I learned from speaking up.
By
David Zonsheine
December 27, 2022
Why are Israeli soldiers harvesting Palestinians’ olive groves?
Soldiers were seen picking the trees after receiving permission from a settler group. When Palestinians went to harvest the next day, police prevented them.
By
Oren Ziv
and
Meron Rapoport
October 19, 2022
PODCAST: Will this Palestinian matriarch get to keep her Jerusalem home?
Amal Sumarin has been fighting Jewish settlement and a discriminatory legal system for years. An Israeli court may decide her family's fate next month.
By
Unsettled
March 30, 2021
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Tel Aviv University to cooperate with settler group on East Jerusalem dig
Tel Aviv University’s spokesperson refuses to explain why its archaeologists will work with Elad, an organization notorious for its pursuit of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. Haaretz reported on Thursday that Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology plans to start digging in al-Bustan, located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem, in cooperation with…
By
Mairav Zonszein
October 25, 2012
Court prevents eviction of Palestinian family by JNF
After two decades of legal struggle, the Ruweidi family from Silwan has been granted recognition by the courts that they are indeed the rightful owners of their home. The decision rejects the Jewish National Fund’s claim that the home is the property of the State of Israel. Moriel Rothman contributed to this report. The Jerusalem District…
By
Mairav Zonszein
May 9, 2012
Foreign influence, transparency problems of NGO Monitor
Right-wing NGO that went after progressive and human right groups is financed from abroad, including through large grants from undisclosed donors Last week, Haaretz’s Uri Blau had a short expose – available only in the Hebrew edition – regarding the rightwing non-profit NGO Monitor. As some readers might remember, NGO Monitor recently attacked the German Heinrich Böll…
By
Noam Sheizaf
February 20, 2012
‘National Parks’ in East Jerusalem: New tool in occupation toolkit
The establishment of national parks in East Jerusalem may sound like a nice idea that fosters the preservation of natural reserves – but in reality, it is a crafty method the Israeli government and its institutions have found to keep East Jerusalem under Israeli control and prohibit Palestinian territorial contiguity, rights and independence. By Zvi…
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+972 Magazine
January 14, 2012
Israel’s war of attrition on non-Jews
The eviction of the Sumarin family was delayed but not canceled, leaving the family in limbo. Other groups live with uncertainty as Israel wages a psychological war of attrition on non-Jews. According to Haaretz, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has delayed the eviction of the Sumarins, a Palestinian family who lives in the East Jerusalem…
By
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
November 28, 2011
Activist group opposes cultural events in City of David
While I am not a member of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, I have been active with them and decided to post their appeal as I think it is an important cause and call to action By Silan Dallal and Ella Elbaz-Nir Under the misleading title “Israeli Culture at Heritage Sites” a series of musical…
By
Mairav Zonszein
August 23, 2011
Israel privatizing national parks to sustain occupation
The Knesset approved a first reading of a bill that would privatize the administration of its national parks, all in an effort to protect the control of a settlement organization over an archeological site in East Jerusalem. While thousands of Israelis are protesting the price of goods and housing in Israel, reminding the Knesset it…
By
Aziz Abu Sarah
July 29, 2011
WATCH: Palestinian youth abducted by police in E. Jerusalem
While Israelis are busy pitching tents across the country, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, life under occupation goes on as usual, far away from the media’s eyes. In the shocking footage below, taken with a surveillance camera last Friday, July 22, Palestinian teens playing soccer in the street are suddenly abducted by Israeli…
By
Mairav Zonszein
July 26, 2011
The “Religiousization” of the conflict in Jerusalem
By Mairav Zonszein and Aziz Abu Sarah Crossposted from commongroundnews.org Jerusalem – Jerusalem, home to Christianity, Judaism and Islam – and highly significant to Palestinians and Israelis alike – continues to be a crucial focal point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Holy Basin in Jerusalem is home to some of the most sacred sites to…
By
Mairav Zonszein
January 20, 2011
Palestinian grassroots activist to be expelled from East Jerusalem
On November 28th, Adnan Gheith, a member of the Al-Bustan Neighborhood Committee and a dignitary of Silwan, was served with a letter informing him that Yair Golan, the Israeli Home Front Commander, is intending to expel him from Jerusalem for a period of four months. The expulsion is to be executed based on an Administrative…
By
Joseph Dana
December 20, 2010
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