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I'm largely paraphrasing the human rights lawyer @michaelsfard.bsky.social, who is key in this case & many others:
A thing that happens a lot in Israel is that settler orgs + the Rabbinate take over properties in East Jerusalem owned by Jews before 1948, to "Judaize" the Palestinian part+
I'm largely paraphrasing the human rights lawyer @michaelsfard.bsky.social, who is key in this case & many others:
A thing that happens a lot in Israel is that settler orgs + the Rabbinate take over properties in East Jerusalem owned by Jews before 1948, to "Judaize" the Palestinian part+
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"This is not a mishap. The entire system is calibrated to operate this way. The mishap here is that someone came along who could not be ignored. The mishap is that we brought the truth to light."
As Sfard put it:
The Palestinian tenants in the property his grandmother left behind now have a fair landlord—something that cannot be said for many of their neighbors in Sheikh Jarrah.