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Peace and Justice Post
Taking over Jerusalem
Evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and other Palestinian areas are part of a bid to turn East Jerusalem into a unified Jewish Jerusalem
A couple of months ago I spent a fortnight in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement – activists who help Palestinians non-violently resistactivists. The most pressing of many issues during my stay was the attempts by an Israeli settler company, Nahalat Shimon, backed by the Israeli courts, to cleanse East Jerusalem of its Arab population, focusing its efforts at that time on the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
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Tags: colonisation programme, East Jerusalem, eviction prpgramme, evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, Israel, Israeli illegal settlements, Israeli oppression, Netanyahu administration, Palestinian areas
This entry was posted on August 6, 2009 at 8:43 am and is filed under Commentary, Human rights, imperialism, Palestine, Uncategorized, Zionist Israel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.