Sheikh Jarrah and After
JVL Introduction
In provoking the crisis in Sheikh Jarrar Israel has used a veneer of legality, claiming to be restoring confiscated property to Jewish trusts who lost it in 1948.
By the same token the state will be supporting Palestinians in their claim to property confiscated in East Jerusalem and throughout green-line Israel.
Only it won’t. We aren’t talking real law, but ethnic cleansing through theft. And Palestinians are rising in protest.
For Tareq Baconi the crisis provoked by the Sheikh Jarrar evictions reminds us of two facts.
First, while Palestinians within Israel may have appeared to show apathy and indifference, this never amounted to acceptance of defeat.
Second, the collective eruption across historical Palestine shows that the Palestinians remain a people – despite the fragmentation of their territory and their social and political lives.
We know which side we are on.
This article was originally published by the London Review of Books on Fri 14 May 2021. Read the original here.
Sheikh Jarrah and After
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An excellent article, clear about the roots of the current conflict and rightly damning of Israels deadly ambitions. Having heard on the BBC news, I believe, an official of the Knesset blaming Hamas for the first bomb strike of the war, it seems either he omitted, or it was edited out, that on the ‘ Monday, Hamas gave an ultimatum that unless the Israeli forces evacuate al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah by 6pm….’ ! A telling omission.