Ethnic Cleansing

Backgrounder Settler State: Guide to the Israeli Settler Groups That Work to Dispossess Palestinians in Jerusalem

A collaboration becomes a symbiosis.

Blog Post Musrara Café across from Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate Faces Closure

A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.

Feature Story Supreme Court Rules to Expel a Palestinian Family in Silwan from Property It Bought in 1966

The Shehadeh family in Silwan has been fighting an Israeli Supreme Court eviction order, and the outcome affects dozens of families.

Blog Post Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir

A Palestinian who remained in West Jerusalem in 1948 recalls life there before and after the war. A book review.

Screenshot from the YouTube video, “What’s The Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta”
Video What’s the Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta

“We lived here like kings”: Yacoub Ahmad Odeh fights Israeli plans to turn the depopulated village of Lifta into a new Jewish settlement.

Michel Hamarneh, born in Jerusalem in 1935, a character in the film My Jerusalem: Testimonial to life in Jerusalem before 1948 by Lubna Dajani
Video My Jerusalem: Testimonial to Life in Jerusalem before 1948

Jerusalemites born in the 1920s and 1930s recount their memories of growing up in Jerusalem and what they lost when they were forced to leave in 1948.

Feature Story Israeli Courts Order More than 50 Palestinians Expelled from Homes in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah

Israeli Supreme Court orders expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

Feature Story Israeli Government Pumping Millions into Rebranding the Holy Basin, Erasing Palestinian Heritage

Israel is spending millions on a Judeo-centric “Jerusalem Heritage” program for the Holy Basin.

Feature Story Controversial Cable Car Project Sparks Outcry as City Orders Land Expropriation from Silwan Residents

The city notifies Silwan residents of its planned confiscation of private lands as cable car project gets underway.