10:00 AM, Sunday, March 22nd: Ahmad Sub Leban, a friend and colleague, welcomes a group of about 60 activists and journalists outside of his family’s home in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City: “We are […]
Category: East Jerusalem
Notes (and tweets) from a solidarity tour in the Shuafat Refugee Camp
Yesterday, I was part of the biggest group of unarmed Israelis to enter the Shuafat Refugee Camp in over a decade. At least that it what the Palestinian organizers of the tour told me. And […]
A rare win for E. Jerusalem Ruweidi family facing settler takeover (Update)
[Originally posted on +972 Magazine, and as an update to the piece last week before the Ruweidi family’s hearing: JNF, settler group seek to evict Palestinian family in Silwan] In the context of the absurd reality […]
JNF, Settler group seek to evict Palestinian family in Silwan (in +972 Mag)
[Originally published in +972 Magazine] Over the past few decades, the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), an organization known to many in the diaspora for its work planting trees in Israel (I gave a portion of […]
A Jerusalem Protest Against Children’s Arrests
This morning, at 11:00 AM, around 60 or 70 Jerusalemites – Palestinian and Israeli – gathered outside the Jerusalem Municipality’s office in West Jerusalem to protest the practice of children’s arrests in East Jerusalem. The […]
16 Snapshots from an Activist Tour to the South Hebron Hills
On Friday, February 6th, around 70 Israelis went on a tour of the South Hebron Hills, led by the indispensable Breaking the Silence and Ta’ayush, and sparked by the rad group of Jerusalem activists who’ve […]
Chipping Away at the Wall: Palestinian activists lead 150 Israelis on a tour of Issawiya
This afternoon, a number of Palestinian activists and residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya -home to 18,000 people, all of whom have suffered directly from the Jerusalem Municipality’s policy of collective punishment over […]
Six Palestinians from East Jerusalem talk about life under occupation to 200+ Israelis in West Jerusalem
A curation of live-tweets from last night’s event, in which six Palestinian activists, students and residents of East Jerusalem came to a West Jerusalem bar to take part in an event co-organized by Israeli left-wing […]
If I were Prime Minister.
If I were Prime Minister of Israel, I would do my best to negotiate an end to the occupation. When it arose, I would embrace the opportunity, challenging as it might be, to try to […]
What Yehuda Amichai and Samih al-Qassim have to say about Tuesday
Guest writer: Sarah Stern Poetry has a way of saying things backwards so that feelings make sense. Facebook has a way of saying things frontwards so that feelings turn to nonsense. I decided to post […]
The Leftern Wall 