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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.
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Vera Sajrawi
May 15, 2023
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.
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Vera Sajrawi
November 28, 2022
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.
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Oren Ziv
November 23, 2021
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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…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
June 4, 2016
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…
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September 19, 2015
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,…
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