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Suleiman and Sharifa, maternal grandparents of +972 editor Vera Sajrawi. (Courtesy)

Sharifa’s Nakba: Retracing my family’s escape from Haifa

+972 editor Vera Sajrawi sets out to uncover the hidden story of her grandparents' expulsion in 1948, walking the streets on which they used to live before being made refugees in their own homeland.

By Vera Sajrawi May 15, 2023

Israeli police arrest Palestinian citizens as armed settlers and police forces patrol the city of Lod/Lyd, May 13, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How Akka’s Palestinians fought back against Israel’s mass arrest campaign

Israeli police launched a repressive operation against Palestinian citizens following last year's violence in 'mixed cities.' Abandoned by local leaders, activists built their own initiatives to support detainees and their families.

By Vera Sajrawi November 28, 2022

Farida Najar, a Palestinian single mother of four, seen outside her tent, which she erected in a public park in Jaffa in protest of racialized gentrification and rising rents in the city, November 17, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

PHOTOS: A Palestinian single mother sparks protest camp over Jaffa gentrification

Years of state neglect and rising prices mean Palestinian families can no longer afford rent in their own city. Protesters have set up tents to demand solutions.

By Oren Ziv November 23, 2021

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The market place in Jaffa, circa 1900. The photo has been taken from the Clock Tower Square, with Mahmoudiya Mosque in the background. (Library of Congress)

Wiping Palestinian history off the map in Jaffa

A tourist map of Jaffa presents a reimagined, Zionist version of the city: Jaffa 2.0 is a boutique neighborhood of Tel Aviv, with a smattering of ‘local’ (read: native) color. But the map itself simply represents a much broader process of destruction and reconstruction. If you go into Jaffa’s tourist information centers (run by the…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth June 4, 2016

Local residents protest against the plan to build a new housing project for Jews only in the middle of the Palestinian neighborhood of Ajami, Jaffa, August 22, 2015. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

WATCH: No to ‘settlements’ in Jaffa

A developer wants to evict 12 Palestinian families in order to build a Jewish-only luxury housing project in Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood. Can we call it a settlement, or is it just gentrification? Related: Gentrification leaves one Jaffa family caged in their own home Arabs and Jews come together to oppose gentrification in Jaffa WATCH: Violent…

By Social TV September 19, 2015

Ismail Shawa standing in the window he is forced to climb through in order to exit and enter his Jaffa home. (Photo by Yudit Ilany)

Gentrification leaves one Jaffa family caged in their own home

Ismail Shawa never expected that a new luxury apartment building would have such an immediate and dramatic effect on his family’s life — that was until contractors sealed off the entrance to their home with a concrete wall, effectively trapping them inside. By Yudit Ilany To exit or enter his Jaffa home, Ismail Shawa, 62,…

By +972 Magazine March 5, 2014