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Israeli Supreme Court orders expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
A research agency in the UK launches a new digital platform to explain how Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah are being forcibly displaced by Israel.
What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
The right to medical treatment and even to relieve oneself are compromised by Israeli checkpoints, especially when extended closures are enforced.
Palestinian authors describe Jerusalemites and their struggles to navigate their daily lives despite crushing Israeli colonial practices. A book review.
A prolific novelist who was exiled from Jerusalem for almost two decades, yet says “Jerusalem is a part of me and I am part of Jerusalem.”
Jerusalem was once a vibrant regional hub with a dynamic civil society, but its natural evolution was abruptly halted by the cataclysm of 1948. A book review.
“All we talk about is the house”—A timeline showing how a Palestinian home in what became West Jerusalem was confiscated and passed to Jewish ownership and its origins erased
The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.
The crisis in Gaza is providing cover for the expansion of Israeli settlements in Silwan.
Israel is rapidly advancing settlement plans across East Jerusalem; 2023 seems sure to be a record-breaking year.
A new Jewish settlement in the heart of Palestinian Ras al-Amud hurtles rapid-fire toward approval.
Israeli Supreme Court orders expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a world-renowned Palestinian feminist scholar, is arrested from bed and hauled to prison for interrogation.
A retired Jerusalemite writer and researcher creates his own Arab architecture museum in Ras al-Amud.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including children, face excruciating conditions in Israeli prisons.
The city sets its sights on a Palestinian-owned space, once a sheep market, that serves Old City residents and worshippers.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is hard to diagnose among Palestinians, because the trauma is chronic.
A deep sadness cloaked the city, but the Eid al-Fitr rites were observed, including visiting the dead and saying prayers for their souls.
Jerusalemites observed Easter and Eid al-Fitr during the same week, but a deep sadness hung over the city.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a world-renowned Palestinian feminist scholar, is arrested from bed and hauled to prison for interrogation.
Israeli Supreme Court orders expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
“Everybody will be able to come to Jerusalem from anywhere they want and celebrate in Jerusalem.”
Before 1948, Jerusalem was not split between an “East” and a “West.” Rather, a cosmopolitan, multiethnic New City grew organically out of the Old City.
While not surprising, the results point to a darker future in the city and reflect nationwide trends.
Israel uses the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law and several amendments to it to confiscate Palestinian property across East Jerusalem and give it to Jewish settlers.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
A Palestinian in exile remembers Jerusalem’s Old City—the sights and sounds, the tight-knit community—during his last days with his formidable grandfather, the Mukhtar.
An overview of the complex web of 18 military checkpoints around Jerusalem that control and constrain Palestinian access to the city
Israel tried treating Palestinian Americans like other US tourists, and I was finally able to visit my capital city.