THREAD: As all eyes turn to Jerusalem amid the ongoing Israeli crackdown on the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement & today's attacks on #AlAqsaMosque worshippers, we share these pieces by our analysts over the years to give some historical & political context to the unfolding events:
In one of our early pieces in 2011, Al-Shabaka analyst Salim Tamari argues that proposals for the future of Jerusalem ignore the fact that at its core the conflict over the city is a case of colonial subjugation which must be addressed & resolved equitably ow.ly/rIcZ50EICo6
Reflecting on similar protests in Jerusalem in 2015, Nur Arafeh warned against framing such them as a religious war because that ignores the reality of the power imbalance between the colonizer & the colonized and fails to address the conext of the events ow.ly/Y9Ls50EICmR
In this evergreen 2016 piece, Munir Nuseibah exposes the concept of "breach of allegiance to the state of Israel" which has been used to revoke the residency of Palestinian Jerusalemites, in addition to the possible demolition of their family homes al-shabaka.org/commentaries/i…
Pushing forward its "Jerusalem 2050" plan to shape the city into a tourism & high-tech center, Israel had passed & reactivated laws to advance its colonization of the city - the Absentee Property Law & the "third generation law"
Nur Arafeh explains: al-shabaka.org/briefs/jerusal…
Nur Arafeh explains: al-shabaka.org/briefs/jerusal…
In this 2017 piece @Zena_Agha explained how annexation of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem exposes Israel’s methods of colonization of Palestine:
land confiscation, creeping annexation, demographic manipulation & population transfer al-shabaka.org/briefs/israels…
land confiscation, creeping annexation, demographic manipulation & population transfer al-shabaka.org/briefs/israels…
Suffocating the Palestinian economy in Jerusalem has been an integral part of its colonization.
This 2016 brief discusses Israel’s deliberately engineered economic collapse, rendering the city unlivable for Palestinians & ensuring Jewish control over it ow.ly/rNyd50EICl4
This 2016 brief discusses Israel’s deliberately engineered economic collapse, rendering the city unlivable for Palestinians & ensuring Jewish control over it ow.ly/rNyd50EICl4
Last but not least, this @yarahawari policy brief examined the 2020 attacks on three Palestinian cultural institutions in East Jerusalem as part of the Israeli regime’s systematic destruction of the city’s Palestinian identity al-shabaka.org/briefs/destroy…
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