Who Owns Jerusalem?
- Suleiman Mourad
Since Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, the issue of “ownership” of the city has been a bitter conflict between the Palestinian and Israeli communities. It has major political, religious, social and legal consequences. ...
The tragic hike that tas nothing to do with the landscape and land
- Amira Hass عميرة هاس עמירה הס
The spring of Ein Bubin, where Rina Shnerb was killed, is still accessible to the villagers of Dir Ibzi. Neighboring springs have been taken over by Israeli settlers proudly boasting that Palestinians are 'rarely seen there anymore'
In the past ...
If there’s such a thing as a murderous culture, then it exists in Israel
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
This is what the editor of Haaretz’s Culture and Literature supplement, Benny Ziffer, wrote on his Facebook page upon returning from paying a condolence call in the settlement of Ofra: “En route I looked at the Palestinian villages alongside ...
Is Lisbon the New Jerusalem?
A soaring number of Israelis acquired Portuguese citizenship
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
In 2015, the governments of both Spain and Portugal passed laws to allow descendants of Sephardic Jews to apply for citizenship and a passport. Four years later, we learn that the Israeli press has proclaimed that “millions” of ...
Nakba II is here
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The Israeli media reported yesterday that the Jewish State is “actively pushing Palestinian emigration from Gaza.” A senior Israeli official confirmed that Jerusalem is looking for other countries to take in Gazans.
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Israel willing to let Gazans who want to emigrate to fly out via its territory, official says
- Haaretz
Official says Israel ready to pay for flights, but that no country has agreed to accept emigrants
Some 35,000 Gazans left via Egypt in 2018
Palestinians gather at a makeshift bus station as they wait to get permits to take a bus to travel through ...
Conspiracy theories from the Elders of Zion to Epstein’s Youngsters
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Following Jeffery Epstein’s alleged suicide last week we have been deluged by a tsunami of narratives that do not adhere to the shifting official reports of his death. Presumably a few of the intimate secrets of the most powerful ...
The trip Rashida Tlaib didn't get to take
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
A visit to Upper Beit Ur, where the mother and grandmother of the Palestinian-American congresswoman were born, and where she married in 1998
The house owned by Muftiya Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother. The landscape seen from the yard is ...
Israeli court orders Bedouins to pay cost of their eviction from unrecognized village
- Almog Ben Zikri الموج بن زكري אלמוג בן זיקרי
The $372,000 [€333,000] to be paid by six people is the latest chapter in a years-long battle by Bedouin in the south to remain on land the courts say they have no right to
Protesters at the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in the ...
Isawiyah: Why Israeli police are terrorizing this Palestinian village
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Some say Jerusalem police's harassment of Isawiyah's residents was inspired by a now infamous documentary series shot there (read here); but there might be another reason
Mohammed Obeid's picture on a door, his brother next to it. Photo ...
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