1. I started the day with three other activist friends in Sheikh Jarrah. Excuse me: Shimon HaTzadik. Don’t know what got into me. I thought for a moment that it was a Palestinian neighborhood! I said […]
Category: East Jerusalem
“Jerusalem” by Moriel Rothman (a spoken word poem)
Written, memorized, spit, filmed, edited and sealed in a spasm of inspiration on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012: Video by Aaron Rotenberg
Two Demonstrations against Racist Land Policies
On Friday, April 26th, over 100 Palestinians from Beit Hanina and other parts of East Jerusalem, along with Israeli and international activists, held a demonstration in front of the house which formerly belonged to the Natche family, […]
Eviction
“We have nine children.” Rueful lip-slant; how calm eyes! Un-homed, de-housed: Leave. — Khaled and Lubna Natche and their family were evicted from their house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina last week by […]
Eviction in Beit Hanina: New Site of East Jerusalem Settlement
This piece was orginially published on +972 Magazine. Beit Hanina – Wednesday morning, a Palestinian family of 11, the Natche family, was evicted from their home in Beit Hanina (Hebrew report). The legal process behind the eviction was launched […]
Beinart’s Call for Settlement Boycott: Important but Imperfect (Creeping Apartheid + E. J’lem)
Today, Peter Beinart published a carefully worded- and thus more-hearable by mainstream Jews- Op-Ed in the New York Times. In it, he writes that American Jews should begin to “call the West Bank “nondemocratic Israel.”” In other, less-NYT-publishable/US-Jewry-acceptable words, the Apartheid Part […]
Americans Go Home! (On the Absentee Property, Silwan and Racism)
My parents moved to Jerusalem from San Francisco in 1986. They bought a house in Baq’a, and my older sister and I were both born there. In the summer of 1989, my father, a professor […]
Demolition of a Play Place in Silwan
The cruelty of the Occupation continues to astonish me. I was woken a bit before 7 AM with news that the Israel Nature and Parks Authority had begun demolishing the community center and playground in […]
The Leftern Wall 