West Jerusalem

Position Paper The Allenby Compound in Jerusalem: Palestinian Private Property Rights Cannot Be Erased by a One-Dollar Lease

Mounir Kleibo lays out grievances and demands vis-à-vis Israel’s illegal leasing of his family’s land to the US government.

Feature Story Israel and US Agree to Build US Embassy on Confiscated Palestinian Land: Jerusalemite Landowners Respond

Palestinian owners of Jerusalem land approved for site of the future US embassy respond to the illegal move.

Photo Essay Divided Jerusalem (1948–67): When a City Became a Frontier

When Jerusalem was arbitrarily and heartlessly split, ripping apart homes, streets, neighborhoods, and lives

A Palestinian man, Mohammed Saleh, from al-Maliha near Jerusalem shares his Nakba testimony, 2016.
Video Mohammed Saleh: “I Feel like a Stranger in My Own Country”

Mohammed Saleh recalls his life in al-Maliha before 1948.

Blog Post “My Destiny to Live in Jerusalem Was a Great Privilege”: John Rose and the Armenians of Jerusalem

British Palestinian Armenian John Rose recounts his long history in Jerusalem in a memoir. A book review.

Journal Article Musrara, the Center of the World

How the first mixed district to develop outside the Old City was emptied, divided, and used to warehouse Mizrahi immigrants

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.

Blog Post Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir

A Palestinian who remained in West Jerusalem in 1948 recalls life there before and after the war. A book review.

Michel Hamarneh, born in Jerusalem in 1935, a character in the film My Jerusalem: Testimonial to life in Jerusalem before 1948 by Lubna Dajani
Video My Jerusalem: Testimonial to Life in Jerusalem before 1948

Jerusalemites born in the 1920s and 1930s recount their memories of growing up in Jerusalem and what they lost when they were forced to leave in 1948.