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Palestinians in Silwan are losing home after home.
A Silwan resident refuses to leave his family home.
Residents of a targeted neighborhood wait in dread for the bulldozers.
Historian Albert Aghazarian reveals a timeless truth: Jerusalem’s strength lies in its diversity, not domination.
Jerusalem’s historian and defender of academic freedom, who fought to preserve the city’s diversity and plurality
A visual story of the Jerusalem institution that shaped generations and became a living part of the city’s collective memory
The cornerstone of culture and education is fighting to remain.
An inventory of Palestinian villages in the Jerusalem area pre-1948 and their erasure and replacement
Depopulated, but never forgotten
The psychological and sociological effects of house arrest for Palestinians in today’s Jerusalem
A study of how children and their families experience home arrest
Israel exerts heavy-handed controls over released prisoners’ lives.
Jerusalem residents pay taxes to Israel and are supposed to get services in return. Instead they were abandoned.
Palestinians in Silwan are being forcibly expelled from their homes at an alarmingly accelerated rate.
How Israel has gradually and doggedly wrested control of the second holiest Muslim site in historic Palestine
Jerusalem’s new Islamic Waqf Council is announced amid increasing extremist Jewish incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound
A Jerusalem artist and educator who thinks outside the box
The psychological and sociological effects of house arrest for Palestinians in today’s Jerusalem
Jerusalemites loved to explore and photograph the great outdoors with family members and friends.
Time to reconsider outdated requirements for Israeli entry permits from Jordan
Some key drivers of the demographic balance in Jerusalem
In 2024, violent attacks by religious Jews against Christians increased, especially in Jerusalem.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
Israel’s settlements in and around Jerusalem take the shape of three rings that contribute to Judaizing the city and fragmenting its Palestinian communities.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
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.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.
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.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led Jewish visitors in prayer next to the Dome of the Rock in early August 2025, marking a dramatic change to the Status Quo arrangements.
Palestinian Jerusalemites are indigenous natives who enjoyed full citizenship rights and whose international rights were profoundly violated when Israel denationalized them as it established its state. A conversation with international law expert Susan Akram.
What does Jerusalem mean to Palestinians who identify as Jerusalemites? We posed this question to more than a dozen Jerusalemites worldwide.