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The violence and forced displacement in #SheikJarrah have shocked the world this week. Israel’s settler expansion into East Jerusalem isn’t new. MERIP has been documenting this for decades. THREAD.
Joel Beinin wrote about evictions of Palestinian families from the neighborhood and the resulting violence over 10 years ago: https://merip.org/2010/02/confronting-settlement-expansion-in-east-jerusalem/
He also wrote about similar forced displacement in neighboring #Silwan: https://merip.org/2010/09/contesting-past-and-present-in-silwan/
In 1992, Anita Vitullo Khoury reported on how Israel had gradually seized large portions of East Jerusalem: https://merip.org/1992/03/erasing-arab-jerusalem/
Finally, we cannot ignore the fact the moving the US embassy to Jerusalem gives implicit permission for the seizure of Palestinian land, write @bookseller_jer and @Mandymaryturner: https://merip.org/2018/05/the-united-states-recognition-of-jerusalem-as-the-capital-of-israel-and-the-challenge-to-the-international-consensus/
