While @chedwardes was interviewing the el-Kurd twins in East Jerusalem, I filmed this outside their house. It gives you a flavour of the stress of their lives as settlers’ use the courts to seize possession of homes their families were given in 1956 as compensation for being…
evicted from West Jerusalem. Under Israeli law they have no equivalent right to evict those who now occupy their ancestral homes in West Jerusalem. The property rights are asymmetric. And here you can see the police compelling a Palestinian to bring down a Palestinian flag…
attached to a kite. Imagine the police doing that in London to someone flying the England or Scotland flag. This is not like living in any old middle class road, though it is certainly middle class, because all the Palestinians I met in Sheikh Jarrah were highly educated,…
usually with professional qualifications. This is a picture of the house opposite the el-Kurds that is occupied by settlers and has become the symbol of a conflict that is both very local and represents a much bigger problem. By the way, as many of you… 
know, I am not anti Israel. Quite the oppose. But this is an injustice that would be important to highlight wherever it was. And here, in case you missed it, is @chedwardes moving interview in @thetimes
thetimes.co.uk/article/a6bfe4…
thetimes.co.uk/article/a6bfe4…
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