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Slavoj Zizek | The Guardian 18 August 2009 On 2 August 2009, after cordoning off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families (more than 50 people) from their homes; Jewish ...
Read More »U.S. group invests tax-free millions in East Jerusalem land
Uri Blau | Ha’aretz 17 August 2009 American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a nonprofit organization that sends millions of shekels worth of donations to Israel every year for clearly political purposes, such as buying Arab properties in East Jerusalem, is ...
Read More »Court refuses to issue restraining order against evicted Sheikh Jarrah Arabs
Jonah Newman & Abe Selig | The Jerusalem Post 14 August 2009 A Jerusalem District Court rejected on Thursday a request by Jewish families who have taken possession of homes in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood by court order to ...
Read More »Candle vigil in solidarity with evicted Palestinian families held in Sheikh Jarrah
10 August 2009 At 8pm, around 200 Palestinians, Israelis and international solidarity activists congregated outside the evicted homes of the Hanoun family. Under the presence of the Israeli police, the demonstrators lit candles which illuminated signs and posters condemning the ...
Read More »Evicted Palestinians sleep rough in protest
Jacky Rowland | Al Jazeera 7 August 2009 The Hanouns, a Palestinian family evicted by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem, are protesting their eviction by sleeping on the street outside the house that was for decades their ...
Read More »Sheikh Jarrah: another day sleeping under the sky
Alternative Information Center 6 August 2009 The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, housing about 500 Palestinians in East Jerusalem is under siege. Armed forces have been stationed here since early Sunday morning when the Hannoun and Gawi families were forcibly evicted ...
Read More »Taking over Jerusalem
Matt Kennard | The Guardian 5 August 2009 A couple of months ago I spent a fortnight in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement – activists who help Palestinians non-violently resist Israeli oppression. The most pressing of many issues during ...
Read More »London protests against Sheikh Jarrah evictions
4 August 2009 On Monday afternoon from 5pm a large group of protesters put up tents and banners next to and across the road from the Israeli embassy in central London to protest the evictions of 53 Palestinians in Sheik ...
Read More »Activists demonstrate for a Danish condemnation of the evictions of Hanoun and Ghawe Family in Sheikh Jarrah
ISM Denmark 4 August 2009 On Monday 4 August at 5pm approximately 20 danish solidarity activist gathered in front of the Danish foreign ministry to call for a condemnation of the eviction of another two families in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied ...
Read More »Evicted Palestinians stand their ground – on thin mattresses
Ilene R. Prusher | Christian Science Monitor 4 August 2009 It was 13-year-old Diala who was awoken first, just after 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, by the commotion outside. She rushed to the window, saw special riot police in black ...
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