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    Palestinians comprise nearly half the population of Jerusalem and have built, and shaped, the city for centuries, yet their stories are rarely told.

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    The erased and all-too-often forgotten violent history of how West Jerusalem came to be

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    In Jerusalem as in the rest of the country, land is the locus of the struggle for control. Here we explore the status of land in Jerusalem and its environs.

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    Israel has used Jewish settlement as a pivotal strategy to control, disrupt, and radically transform the Jerusalem geopolitical landscape.

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    How the city of Jerusalem works in tandem with the settler organizations to take away Palestinians’ private homes by force.

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    Jerusalem is known as an open, international, “city of peace.” For millions of Palestinians, however, it is a closed, virtually unreachable, city.

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    Israel's Separation Wall, called al-jidar by Palestinians, has drastically reshaped the geopolitical fabric of Jerusalem.

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    Most Palestinian Jerusalemites have a legal status that is unique in the world: Although they are indigenous, they are stateless.

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    In East Jerusalem, education has been a battleground since Israel occupied it in 1967, and the struggle is only intensifying. 

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Grinding Corn

November 22, 2022
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Arab peasants grinding corn in Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsca-02761]

A scene of Arab peasants grinding corn in Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century, somewhere between 1890 and 1900

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