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Fatma Salem speaks during a solidarity gathering in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem. (Yahel Gazit)

‘A gentle, powerful light’: Honoring a symbol of Sheikh Jarrah’s steadfastness

Fatma Salem died with the threat of settler takeover still hanging over her family. But she never cowered to the forces that sought to displace her.

By Yahel Gazit January 12, 2024

Rafat Sub-Laban protesting outside his family's home in the Old City of Jerusalem, after they were expelled to make way for Jewish settlers, July 11, 2023. (Yahel Gazit)

‘Israel wanted a silent, perfect victim. We refused’

After settlers took over his family's home in Jerusalem’s Old City last month, Rafat Ghaith-Sub Laban reflects on the hardships and lessons of their struggle.

By Yahel Gazit August 15, 2023

An elderly Jewish man seen in Kfar Shalem, 1969. (Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)

From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba

The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.

By Doron Yacov and Adi Golan Bikhnafo May 15, 2023

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Activists from the Shovrot Kirot movement stand in front of the ruins of the Givat Amal neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, and the luxury apartment blocks built in its place, April 11, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene

A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?

By Ben Reiff April 12, 2022

Border Police wrestle a protester during a demonstration against the wall in Walajeh, August 2011. (Activestills.org)

In one Palestinian village, the whole story of the occupation

Encircled by the separation barrier, threatened with demolition orders, and deemed illegal aliens in their own homes, the residents of the Palestinian village of Walajeh are fighting for their lives. From the village of Walajeh, one can see much of Jerusalem. The round roof of Teddy Stadium, where the city’s soccer teams play. The towers of…

By Joshua Leifer March 19, 2018

Protesters block the entrance to the JNF headquarters in Jerusalem. January 31, 2018. (Joshua Leifer)

Activists barricade JNF headquarters to protest eviction of Palestinian family

The JNF has been trying to evict the Sumarin familiy from their home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan for decades. An international campaigned stopped the eviction in 2011. Now, the family is threatened again. Several dozen Israeli and international activists demonstrated outside the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) Jerusalem offices Wednesday, protesting its role in the…

By Joshua Leifer February 1, 2018

Caduri Halif stands among the rubble of his demolished house, Givat Amal neighborhood, Tel Aviv, September 18, 2014. A third eviction of families in the neighborhood left 20 residents homeless and without proper compensation or an alternative housing solution. (Activestills)

Home demolitions in the Negev and Tel Aviv show the real face of government corruption

Corruption does not begin with Netanyahu’s cigars or pink champagne. It begins with an ideological system that sees entire segments of the population as undesirable and unnecessary, and as temporary residents in their own homes. Last night, a striking episode in Amnon Levy’s documentary series, “The Real Faces,” aired on TV. The episode followed the…

By Orly Noy December 26, 2017

Settlers take over East Jerusalem home in the dead of night

In the latest of a number of home takeovers in Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, settlers took up residence in a home they said belonged to Jews before the establishment of the state of Israel. A group of Israeli settlers moved into an apartment building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Thursday. The…

By +972 Magazine August 28, 2015

Givat Amal residents outside of the area cordoned off by police, Tel Aviv, December 29, 2014. The Yoo Towers can be seen in the background. (Photo by Activestills.org)

Desperation and hope in the eviction of Givat Amal

The first-hand story of eviction in one of Tel Aviv’s poorest neighborhoods. ‘They are trying to frighten us,’ someone said, and everyone crowded together and held each other even tighter. Then a sledgehammer punched a hole in the drywall. We didn’t expect them to enter that way, the way soldiers did in Jenin during Operation Protective…

By Haggai Matar January 3, 2015

Sheikh Sayah A-Turi holds up an eviction notice in his village of Al-Arakib. (photo: Michal Rotem)

In Al-Arakib, even the dead face eviction

The Bedouin village of Al-Arakib has been demolished 63 times since 2010. Now it’s dealing with its latest challenge: eviction orders for the deceased. By Michal Rotem (translated by Yehudit Keshet) On May 21, 2014, eight eviction orders were placed on structures in the cemetery of Al-Arakib, a Bedouin village in the Negev that has…

By +972 Magazine May 26, 2014

Sima Kavlo, living in the apartment for 34 years, after her parent passed away. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Ramat Gan public housing residents thrown to the street

Needy families in municipal housing are being left with no options. Most of the families being kicked out of their homes are current or former municipal employees. (Click the text box on the bottom right of the video to activate subtitles.) The Gefen neighborhood, also known as Geulim Housing Project, is a number of two-story…

By Activestills October 22, 2013

Israeli author David Grossman demonstrates in Sheikh Jarrah (Activestills)

Israeli authors lend their names in effort to save Palestinian villages

Ahead of High Court case, authors sign petition, tour south Hebron Hills villages in support of one thousand residents facing possible eviction. Twenty-four prominent Israeli writers recently signed a petition in support of Palestinians in danger of eviction from their homes in the South Hebron Hills. Next to Israeli activists, foreign journalists and Palestinian residents,…

By Matt Surrusco June 26, 2013

WATCH: ‘My Neighbourhood’ – the human impact of settlements in Sheikh Jarrah

Just Vision’s Peabody Award winning film, My Neigbhourhood (directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi), tells the story of Mohammed El Kurd, a Palestinian teenager in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah whose family is forced to share a section of their home with Israeli settlers. Mohammed comes-of-age in the midst of unrelenting tension…

By +972 Magazine May 17, 2013