I& #39;ve been asked by a journalist if the issue of #SheikhJarrah was "a private dispute", thereby serving Israel& #39;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
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" #39;%20their%20own%20houses">https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16540.html#:~:text=In%20January%202020%2C%20Al%2DHaq,%2Ddemolish& #39;%20their%20own%20houses.">https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/...
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">https://www.ir-amim.org.il/sites/def...
Notably, Palestinians whose houses were stolen in 1948 in Jerusalem are deemed "absentees" and can& #39;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">https://twitter.com/RZabaneh/...
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& #39;t go until Palestinians can be free in their homeland.
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