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A view of Highway 1, the Ma'aleh Adumim-Jerusalem road, from the West Bank area known as E1, with Jerusalem's Mount Scopus seen on the horizon, on Dec. 10, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Erekat: Israel’s ‘apartheid road’ is the start of its ‘E1 colonial plan’

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Israel’s plan to build a road connecting Jerusalem and the E1 area of Judea and Samaria represents the start of Israel’s “colonial” program to “sever the contiguity” of a future Palestinian state, PLO Secretary...
An aerial view of eastern Jerusalem on Dec. 17, 2019. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

US State Department changes name of eastern Jerusalem Palestinians in annual report

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The U.S. State Department has changed its official description of Palestinians living in eastern Jerusalem from “Palestinian residents” to “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens” in the department’s annual global human-rights report released on Wednesday. The majority of...
Issawiya from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Mount Scopus, April 5, 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli Police launch nine-month campaign to maintain order in eastern Jerusalem

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Almost every day for the past nine months, Israeli Police have raided the Palestinian neighborhood of Issawiya in eastern Jerusalem in a campaign to maintain law and order. Rights groups say the police search homes...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Erdoğan’s ‘quiet jihad’

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Palestinian Authority officials are calling the gift the Turkish government gave them a few years ago “the treasure.” The trove comprises 140,000 pages of carefully arranged microfilm that could have a dramatic effect on...
The "Tomb of the Kings" in Jerusalem, is believed to be the burial site of Queen Helena of Adiabene, a Mesopotamian monarch who converted to Judaism in the first century BCE. Credit: Library of Congress Catalog, Wikipedia Commons.

Jerusalem’s ‘Tomb of the Kings’ opens to the public for the first time in...

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French authorities have opened Jerusalem’s ancient “Tomb of the Kings” to the public for the first time in 10 years, the AP reported on Friday. Limited numbers of visitors are now being allowed to visit the site,...
An Israeli military bulldozer demolishes a building in Sur Baher, July 22, 2019. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

The unique status of Jerusalem’s Wadi Hummus suburb

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What’s going on in Wadi Hummus? Behind the tumult and the Supreme Court ruling that approved Israel’s demolition of 12 buildings in Wadi Hummus on July 22 stands the murky and unusual legal status...

Raging at rabbis: when rights collide in Jerusalem

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This week, the Jerusalem Municipality authorized the naming of five alleyways and narrow streets in the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan after rabbis. Currently, 12 Jewish families and hundreds of Palestinian families live in...