East Jerusalem
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Watch: Inside the Battle for Jerusalem
Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed 213 people and Hamas rockets into Israel have killed 13. The latest violence between Israel and Palestine came after weeks of police aggression towards Palestinians in East Jerusalem. We embed with protesters in Sheikh Jarrah who face losing their homes as they wait to hear their fate in a… Continue reading
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The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe. Continue reading
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The untold story of Sheikh Jarrah
The obvious story is that of the nightly raids and violence meted out by Israeli police and Jewish extremists against Palestinians in the devastated East Jerusalem neighbourhood. For weeks, thousands of Jewish extremists have targeted Palestinian communities in Jerusalem’s Old City. Their objective is the removal of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh… Continue reading
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Palestine/Gaza News Links 14 April – 12 May 2021
12 May 2021 18:49 — The New Dark Age Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan I have anxiety in my heart tonight. I have friends in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and I am truly fearing for them. Several of them have reported Continue reading
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State Department buries Israeli occupation in word salad
Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden personally intervened to keep the word “occupation” out of the Democratic Party’s platform regarding Israel. Continue reading
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Settlers, soldiers seize Jerusalem home from Palestinian family
Israeli forces expelled a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday and handed it to Jewish settlers. The Abu Asab family lived in the house for the past 67 years. Continue reading
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A new capital? Palestinians say Abu Dis is no substitute for East Jerusalem By Jonathan Cook
The entrance to Abu Dis could not be more disconcerting, given reports that Donald Trump’s administration intends it to be the capital of a future Palestinian state, in place of Jerusalem. The wall, and the security cameras lining the top of it, are the legacy of battles for control of Jerusalem’s borders. Sections of concrete… Continue reading
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Video: Jewish mob chanting ‘Death to Arabs!’ stops cars in Jerusalem to check drivers’ ethnicity By Adam Horowitz
The video below was shot last night by Ronnie Barkan in Jerusalem. In perhaps the most frightening scene they start flagging down taxis presumably looking for Palestinian drivers (they let cars pass once they see a driver is Jewish). Continue reading
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Video: Jewish mob chanting ‘Death to Arabs!’ stops cars in Jerusalem to check drivers’ ethnicity By Adam Horowitz
The video below was shot last night by Ronnie Barkan in Jerusalem. In perhaps the most frightening scene they start flagging down taxis presumably looking for Palestinian drivers (they let cars pass once they see a driver is Jewish). Continue reading
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Video: Girl rapper tells of sharing stairs to her Jerusalem house with Jewish settlers who flash pistols By Annie Robbins
This is a short film produced by Defence for Children Palestine. Tayma ‘Fteiha is a 13-year-old girl rapper who must share the steps to her home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, with settlers who have colonized her neighborhood and aim to demolish Palestinians houses. They flash their pistols at her as they walk up the steps.… Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland By Vacy Vlazna
Archaeology has become a state apparatus for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Zionist fairyland aka the City of David Archaeological Park located in the Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 10 June 2011: Palestine-UN | East Jerusalem | Jordan Valley
10 June 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over Palestinian UN bid East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations? B’Tselem Jordan Valley report: Dispossession and Exploitation Palestinians in America: an intelligent socialist’s guide to Tony Kushner, with Continue reading
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A Matter of Civil Rights By Sarah Leah Whitson
15 April 2011 — Huffington Post Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Washington earlier this month, hot on the heels of an announcement that Israeli authorities had approved yet more housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank. In a week when the U.S. paused to recall the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, President Continue reading
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“The biggest Yerushalayim in Jewish history”
PA offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, a historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 October, 2010: Woman filmed by soldiers describes torture, humiliation
7 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eleven Palestinians Wounded In Several Israeli Military Attacks In Gaza IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Friday October 08, 2010 – 04:30, Palestinian medical sources reported that eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday after the Israeli army conducted several aerial attacks, and attempted to assassinate Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 October, 2010: “Jewish State” loyalty oath to become Israeli law
6 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers looted olive trees in Nablus IMEMC – 6 Oct 2010 – Wednesday October 06, 2010 – 16:46, On Wednesday afternoon,Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees and looted the harvested fruits from villages of Yanoun and al-Hawara near the city of Continue reading
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Video of Clashes in Silwan, East Jerusalem
The streets of Silwan were on fire Wednesday (22 September), as residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood expressed their anger in light of the shooting death of a member of their community. 30-year-old Palestinian man Samir Solhan was shot and killed by an Israeli settler guard at approximately 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. Silwan residents clashed with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 September, 2010: Official: Israel to cut off East Jerusalem villages
19 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Syrian Aid Ship Arrives In Al Arish Port IMEMC – 19 Sep 2010 – Monday September 20, 2010 – 00:54, Lieutenant Hisham Al Janayni, assistant-director of Al Arish Port, stated that a Syrian aid ship heading to Gaza had arrived at Al Arish Port Continue reading
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Rebuilding a Demolished Palestinian Home By Ellen Davidson
Rubble covers the tile floor at the site of the demolished home we are beginning to rebuild in the East Jerusalem section of Anata, a Palestinian town divided between occupied “East” Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Activists from the United States, Britain, Germany, and Iran, reinforced daily by local Palestinian and Israeli activists, have… Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 6 new items 19 July, 2010
19 July, 2010 — Israeli Occupation Archive Israel eyes ‘legal’ takeover of abandoned East Jerusalem properties Netanyahu: “At that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accord” (video) Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord Israeli doctors in Congo to aid burn victims get slammed for occupation Gideon Levy: Tricky Continue reading
The New Dark Age 