Displacement

Feature Story Settler Groups Are Taking Over the Basha Family Building in the Old City

The Basha family is being forcibly expelled from their home in the Old City by settler groups backed by Israeli courts.

Feature Story Hundreds of Palestinian Jerusalemites at Risk of Deportation as Israel Steps Up Expulsion Efforts

Israel expands its arsenal of legal tools, casting a wider net for deportations.

Blog Post A Testament to a City Lost and a Time Erased: A Syrian Woman Remembers the Jerusalem of Her Childhood

A Syrian woman recalls her Jerusalem childhood during the last years of the Colonial British Mandate. A book review.

Photo Torn from Silwan

A family uprooted

Short Take Israeli Justice Ministry Finds Trust a Front for Settler Group Expelling Palestinians

An Israeli trust is being sued for violating its charter. The outcome might stymie the expulsion of Palestinian Jerusalemites from their homes.

Blog Post Palestinians in East Jerusalem Facing Record Levels of Displacement, Study Reveals

Israel is increasingly making Jerusalem unlivable for Palestinians.

Blog Post The Aftermath of a Home Demolition

A visit with the Ayed brothers two weeks after their homes were forcibly flattened

Blog Post Musrara Café across from Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate Faces Closure

A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.

Jerusalemite siblings Teddy and Nadia Theodorie in the library in their Bethlehem home
Video On a Winter’s Night

While looking at family photos, siblings Teddy and Nadia Theodorie recall their displacement from Talbiyya in 1948.