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Sheikh Jarrah, July 9, 2010
By David Shulman I’ve been thinking about truth. About what the word means, and how we know what it means. This comes in the wake of yesterday’s demonstration, with its by now habitual rituals...
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TODAY: Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah!
Today has been declared a Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, and activists from all over Israel will protest the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in this East Jerusalem...
View ArticleSumming-up Sheikh Jarrah solidarity day
reprinted from the Just Jerusalem Blog. August 8, 2010. A year has passed since the eviction/expulsion of the Ghawi and Hanoun families from their homes. A year in which we have struggled together, not...
View ArticleSheikh Jarrah Sukkot
September 22, 2010 It may sound unlikely, but we’re in ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Street in Sheikh Jarrah and, together with Salah and other Palestinian friends from the neighborhood, we’re building a sukkah....
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Israeli court welcomes pre-1948 land claims, from Jewish Israelis only
By Jesse Bacon One of the Palestinian families that could be evicted from their homes as a result of a September 26 court ruling. Photo by: Michal Fattal It has been pointed out repeatedly, but now...
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East Jerusalem update: 1 Palestinian organizer drops his appeal, another...
By Jesse Bacon Adnan Gheith, whose plight we mentioned earlier, dropped his appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court and will be expelled for four months from East Jerusalem. Ha’aretz reporter Mairav...
View ArticleReport from Sheikh Jarrah’s 65th weekly demo
By David Shulman February 11, 2011 Sheikh Jarrah It took the Planning Committee of the Jerusalem City Council less than fifteen minutes to approve plans for the next wave of evictions in Sheikh Jarrah....
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Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by police for “incitement”
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for...
View ArticleRas al-Amud
May 27, 2011 We gather at 4:00 outside the settlers’ multi-story stone building opposite the old police station at Ras al-Amud, on the Mount of Olives. This was the week of Netanyahu’s speech before...
View ArticleNew Sheikh Jarrah Video from Just Vision
Just Vision, the folks I interned for last spring, are out with, “Home Front is a new series of four video portraits chronicling the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most...
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