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I've been asked by a journalist if the issue of #SheikhJarrah was "a private dispute", thereby serving Israel's propaganda. While 1000s of Palestinians were demonstrating across historic Palestine tonight, a #THREAD for context on the decades-long policies of erasure in Jerusalem
Jerusalemites are not citizens& are considered aliens in their own country, with a residency status that can be taken at any moment if they cannot prove that their "center of life" is Jerusalem. More than 14k people had it revoked, forcing them out. https://al-shabaka.org/releases/residency-revocation-israels-forcible-transfer-palestinians-jerusalem/
Israel aims to demographically engineer the city to prevent growth of the Palestinian population and Judaize the city. This supremacist goal is planned in Israeli public documents, notably its Jerusalem "master plans". https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/jerusalem-israels-little-known-master-plans/
Palestinians are denied permits to build or expand their homes , who are demolished (and they have to pay for the demolitions) on the basis that they are "illegal" https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16540.html#:~:text=In%20January%202020%2C%20Al%2DHaq,%2Ddemolish'%20their%20own%20houses.
The construction of the Wall [ruled illegal by the ICJ in 2004] has segregated and cut off 1/3 of the Jerusalemites (more than 100,000) from the city https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/1/7/palestinians-in-kufr-aqab-we-live-here-just-to-wait
Israel also uses all kinds of "security" arguments to demolish houses, like the case of Sur Bahir, where houses were considered "too close" to the Wall https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/07/israel-continues-policy-of-systematic-forced-displacement-with-wave-of-home-demolitions-in-sur-baher/
Israel has used all kinds of legal ways to take over land. Here a policy brief shedding light on #Silwan & #SheikhJarrah that have been battling this for a long time https://www.ir-amim.org.il/sites/default/files/Jerusalem%201967-2020%20_%20The%20Truth%20About%20Annexation.pdf
Notably, Palestinians whose houses were stolen in 1948 in Jerusalem are deemed "absentees" and can't claim them back even if many live a few km away in the West Bank. But Jewish people can, not even the owner but settlers organizations. https://twitter.com/RZabaneh/status/1391444212433002497
All this to say, that beyond this period, this month and the moment when cameras and media are suddenly interested ... the anger and thirst for justice & rights has been built over generations. and it won't go until Palestinians can be free in their homeland.
