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Mahmoud Al-Hajj, a third-generation Palestinian resident of Ur Hanoun, outside his home / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

With Israel’s Help, Settlers Lead Building Projects in Flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah

Jessica Buxbaum November 7, 2022 Jessica Buxbaum

The threat of displacement still looms over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah as new settler building projects could demolish existing homes and leave residents homeless within months. The plans would double the number of Israeli settlers, reports Jessica Buxbaum.

Ola Nababta prays at her son's grave in east Jerusalem's al-Yusufiya cemetery, over which Israel is threatening to build a park / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

‘Picnics Alongside Graves’: Jerusalem to Build Biblical Park Over Palestinian Cemetery

Jessica Buxbaum May 20, 2022 Jessica Buxbaum

Al-Yusufiya cemetery in East Jerusalem remains under threat as the city’s government plans to build a promenade over the land, as part of a proposed "Bible Trail," a string of national parks, reports Jessica Buxbaum.

Residents of the Palestinian neighborhood, Jabal al-Mukaber, protest proposed demolition of their homes to make way for an expansion of a highway that would connect Israeli settler neighborhoods / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

Hundreds of Palestinian Homes May Be Demolished to Expand Highway Connecting Israeli Settler Colonies

Jessica Buxbaum March 28, 2022 Jessica Buxbaum

For the fifth week in a row, residents of Jabal al-Mukaber, a Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem, demonstrated outside city hall against a municipal plan to demolish their homes to expand the American Road, a highway largely viewed as a bypass serving illegal Israeli settlements throughout Jerusalem, reports Jessica Buxbaum.

Several thousand people marched in Philadelphia on May 15 against the state-sanctioned violence, settler-colonialism and apartheid occurring in Sheikh Jarrah and all of Occupied Palestine / credit: Joe Piette

Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic

Ramzy Baroud January 31, 2022 Ramzy Baroud

Israel is no longer the party shaping events in Palestine and controlling the discourse around these events. Palestinians, and a growing international movement of supporters, are proactively shaping global perceptions of the realities on the ground, writes Ramzy Baroud.

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