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On 6/27, Jewish settlers forcibly entered and tried, using crudely forged documents, to illegally seize ownership of a home belonging to the Khalidi Library complex in the Old City.
After 24 hours, the court ordered them to leave.
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56 years since the Naksa, there has not been a single new neighborhood or zoning plan approved for Palestinians of Jerusalem.
@daoudkuttab
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Residents of Kufr ‘Aqab, a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem but behind the Separation Wall, took to the streets to protest the water shortage that has left them with water only a few hours a day at the height of summer.
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Did you know? When Israel was established in 1948, it ordered all commercial banks operating within its territory, including what became West
#Jerusalem
, to “freeze the accounts of all their Arab customers…”
#Palestinian
account holders never saw their money again.
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Our project aims to tell the Jerusalem Story through a less-known lens of the Palestinian community of the city.
Visit our website to learn more.
#JerusalemStory
#Palestine
#Jerusalem
#TheRealStory
#alQuds
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The Nusseibeh Family: Khazraj Roots That Grew and Blossomed in Jerusalem via
@Jerusalemstory
#jerusalem
#jerusalemstory
#jerusalemcity
#thecityretold
#therealstory
#palestinians
#palestiniansofjerusalem
#palestinianstories
#community
#maqdisi
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By 1948, ‘Ayn Karim was home to 3,689
#Palestinian
Arabs.
It became one of the 40 villages that
#Zionist
forces depopulated in the
#Jerusalem
area in 1947–9. By late 1948, Israel had settled 150 Jewish immigrant families there.
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Damascus Gate, has long been a community space for the Palestinians of Jerusalem. Its significance as a community plaza far predates Israel’s occupation, as these photos show. Keenly aware of this, the city has gradually been attempting to reduce Palestinian presence there.
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Developer Danny Rothman arrived to the Cows’ Garden parking lot in the
#Armenian
Quarter of the Old City today with an armed posse and attack dogs. The community rallied and stood him down. This while eyes were all focused elsewhere on Gaza.
#jerusalemstory
#armenians
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Armenian Community Steps Up Resistance to Land Deal as Xana Gardens Intensifies Violent Takeover Efforts via
@Jerusalemstory
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Visit our website to learn more.
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#JerusalemStory
#Palestine
#Jerusalem
#TheRealStory
#alQuds
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On
#InternationalWomensDay2023
we tell the stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite women who have changed the course of their fields, their community, and their city. From medicine to art, these women have solidified their place in
#Jerusalem
history.
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An assessment from 1967 at the time Israel occupied
#EastJerusalem
that unfortunately proved all too accurate. Dr. Khalidi, whose family has centuries of
#history
and roots in Jerusalem, founded the Institute for Palestine Studies and is a world-renowned historian of Palestine.
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Today we remember the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, Sep. 16-18, 1982, with a quote from Bayan al-Hout, the Palestinian Jerusalemite historian who dedicated 5 years of her life to documenting this one massacre, which occurred over 40 continuous hours.
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“[The settlers] are taking my past, my present, and my future.” via
@Jerusalemstory
@jess_buxbaum
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Did you know… many
#Palestinians
in
#EastJerusalem
today were expelled from what became
#WestJerusalem
in 1948 and never allowed to return.
Bernard Sabella’s
#family
was among them:
#JerusalemStory
#Jerusalem
#story
#Palestiniansstories
#familyhistory
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“
#Jerusalem
is not Disneyland, and its landscape and heritage are not for sale.” —Statement by 70
#Israeli
archaeologists, architects, and public figures denouncing the cable car project that is planned to hang over Jerusalem’s ancient
#OldCity
.
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Before Israel was established in 1948, Palestinian Jerusalemites enjoyed full citizenship rights—from the moment they were first introduced in 1869.
Full story:
Photo Credit:
Courtesy of Susan Akram
#JerusalemStory
#TheRealStory
#Jerusalem
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Do you know about the forgotten airport of
#Jerusalem
? Jerusalem International Airport, known amongst
#Palestinians
as
#Qalandiya
Airport, was located near Kufr ‘Aqab and was the only international airport in the
#WestBank
before 1967.
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We visited the complex last week and spoke with some of the family members about this attempt and what it signifies. Here’s a bit of what Bushra Khalidi said.
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On World
#Photography
Day, we celebrate Khalil Raad, widely known as Palestine’s first Arab
#photographer
. His photography combined aestheticism w/historical documentation. His portrayal of life in Palestine undermined the myth that Palestine was empty space pre-1948.
@PalStudies
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Properties in the
#ArmenianQuarter
of the
#OldCity
of
#Jerusalem
are at risk of being taken over due to Israeli pressure with one parking lot potentially falling victim due to an assumed signed lease with the Patriarchate. The Armenian community now fears losing crucial land.
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Although Israel razed the
#Maghrebi
Quarter in '67, hoping to erase it from history,
@OpenJerusalem
has resurrected it with a stunning new app. Walk thru the quarter and see its stones, ancient doorways, and corniches, & gardens.
@v_lemire
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We visit the Karakashian workshop in the
#OldCity
, founded 1919, and hear the family history firsthand from Hagop Karakashian, one of the leading Armenian ceramic artists in Jerusalem today and the third generation to imprint the city’s landscape.
@Hagop_ka
@ArdaWhateverian
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Enter the world of the Balian
#Armenian
ceramics studio in Jerusalem. Photographer Mostafa Alkharouf captured ceramic artist Tahani al-Za‘ani at work in the studio. Enjoy more photos and learn about this unique Jerusalem artform and the Armenian Palestinian community:
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A spirited and unified Armenian community marked the traditional Armenian holiday Diarnntarach in the Cows’ Garden last night. It was especially poignant and moving this year, given that the community has been guarding this very land 24/7 for months.
#jerusalemstory
#armenians
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Israel Detains Muslim Spiritual Leader Sheikh Ekrima Sabri and Bans Him from Entering al-Aqsa Mosque for Six Months via
@Jerusalemstory
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This is not the Jerusalem you think you know.
Visit our website to learn more.
#JerusalemStory
#Palestine
#Jerusalem
#TheRealStory
#alQuds
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As the
#Jerusalem
Festival 2023 continues,
@Dalalabuamneh
performed at the National Conservatory of Music, galvanizing the audience with her soaring renditions of traditional Palestinian and other songs. The audience was rapt and elated. Organized by Yabous Centre.
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South African author, editor, curator and publisher Zukiswa Wanner visited Jerusalem and Palestine in May with
@palfest
. Upon her return, she wrote a long reflection piece and generously offered to share the portions about
#Jerusalem
with Jerusalem Story.
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On
#Armenian
Independence Day, we celebrate the Armenian community in Jerusalem, which has long been an integral part of the historical, social, and cultural fabric of the Old City, with a Photo Album:
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Imagine having to prove that the city you live in is your “center of life” every time need to renew important documents, apply for health insurance or issue an ID.
Learn about the bureaucratic processes of
#Palestinian
permanent residents of
#Israel
here.
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Check out the 4th Annual Jerusalem Arab Film Festival, now in progress at various venues in Sheikh Jarrah.
#jerusalem
#jerusalemstory
#jerusalemcity
#thecityretold
#therealstory
#palestinians
#palestiniansofjerusalem
#palestinianstories
#community
#culture
#film
#arabfilm
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After Israel was established in 1948, it passed a series of laws repealing the citizenship of the nearly 75,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites who had left or been driven out of what later became West Jerusalem during the 1948 War. By 1952, most were made stateless overnight this way.
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Flashback: An advertisement for Palestine Railways, dating from 1922, evocative of a different world. The train traveled from Palestine to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and beyond.
#jerusalemstory
#thecityretold
#Palestinians
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A short vlog of highlights from the Saturday of Light at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in the shadow of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.
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On
#TraditionalDressDay
, we celebrate Palestinian
#embroidery
and the Palestinian
#thobe
. Shown here are women in al-Am’ari refugee camp, close to Jerusalem in el-Bireh, diligently embroidering while wearing their own embroidered thobes in 1982. Photo by
@UNRWA
.
@JulietteTouma
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Jerusalem Photographer Mustafa al-Kharouf reveals his love for Armenian ceramic art as part of our series on Jerusalemites’ favorite places in the city.
Photo Credit:
@moskharouf
for Jerusalem Story
#JerusalemStory
#TheRealStory
#Jerusalem
#Palestinians
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In celebration of
#summer
in
#Jerusalem
, we share wildflowers that grow in Sharafat, a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem that was a rural village before 1967. Although the landscape has been
scarred by settlements, the resilient wildflowers still magically emerge. Enjoy!
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The Armenian Quarter has been in the news lately, as it’s threatened by a shadowy land lease that would result in the loss of about 25% of its area. In the spirit of capturing the quarter’s beauty and ambiance while it remains, we took a stroll through it.
@ArdaWhateverian
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Take a look into the lives of
#Palestinian
Jerusalemites as they navigate their day-to-day activities and tasks under the summer sun.
#Jerusalem
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Within hours of occupying East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel illegally razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood, the Moroccan (Maghrebi) Quarter, in the dead of night.
#jerusalem
#jerusalemstory
#jerusalemcity
#thecityretold
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Unfold the real story.
Visit our website to learn more.
#JerusalemStory
#Palestine
#Jerusalem
#TheRealStory
#alQuds
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East
#Jerusalem
’s Palestinian schools may soon be forced to choose between two bad options: Teach the Israeli curriculum or lose funding.
@IrAmimAlerts
@IrAmim
@Ir_amim_Arabic
@FHusseinifhf
@jess_buxbaum
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With speed and determination, the
#Armenian
community of Jerusalem has organized itself to stand up to Israeli attempts to seize historic and vital Armenian communal property in the area of the Cows’ Garden in the Armenian Quarter.
Link:
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The Baladi
#Dance
Group ignited the stage yesterday at the Faisal al-Husseini hall at the
#YabousCulturalCentre
yesterday, dazzling the audience with their
#dabke
dance performance “Talid”. The event was held on the sixth night of the
#JerusalemFestival2023
: Stand Up Jerusalem.
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This is our
#Jerusalem
Story logo. It symbolizes a multicultural
#community
deeply rooted in its
#land
, despite efforts to encircle and contain it.
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A Palestinian
#Jerusalemite
describes her experience living on the “other” side of the Separation Wall and navigating the city’s checkpoints.
#jerusalemstory
#thecityretold
#jerusalemcity
#seperationwall
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As the first Palestinian woman broadcaster in the 1940s, Fatima Budeiri was a real trailblazer in her day. Read her bio:
#JerusalemStory
#Jerusalem
#TheRealStory
#story
#stories
#palestinianstories
#Palestinianwomen
#history
#radio
#trailblazers
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Born on September 24, 1882, in Beit Jala,
#Jerusalemite
Tawfiq Canaan was a pioneering Palestinian physician, medical researcher, scholar, and prolific writer who discovered the cure for leprosy:
#jerusalem
#thecityretold
#jerusalemcity
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Palestinian men and women from Silwan, photographed by Felix Bonfils, in late 19th-century Jerusalem. The women carry pots of labneh (yogurt cheese).
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True or false?
When a Palestinian who has the status of permanent resident (Israeli “blue” ID) has a child, that child is automatically entitled to the same status and ID at birth.
#jerusalemstory
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Imagine you are a Palestinian Jerusalemite going to the government office to appeal the denial of your request for a building permit. Without it, demolition of your home is a near certainty. And on the wall, you see this...
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A Palestinian grandmother fulfills her dream of becoming a bus driver in East Jerusalem. “It’s the best place there is,” she says about driving the roads of her beloved city.
@ardawhateverian
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During this Christian season of mourning for the Palestinian community, we gathered leading Palestinian Christian Jerusalemites for a Roundtable discussion about the gravity of the moment and the most pressing issues for Christians in the Holy Land and Jerusalem today.
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On May 15, Palestinians commemorate the still-unresolved, unredressed 1948 Nakba at the same time as a plausible genocide is being perpetrated in Gaza by Israel against the descendants of the first atrocity. We mark this somber day with a living memory of 1948.
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From the Opening Night of the Jerusalem Festival 2023, organized by Yabous Cultural Centre in
#EastJerusalem
, under the theme “Stand Up Jerusalem.” A glimpse of the Swarm Art Exhibit.
#jerusalemstory
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After over four decades of legal battles and harassment, the Ghayth-Sub Laban family is expected to be expelled from their home in Jerusalem’s
#OldCity
on June 11, 2023.
Only political intervention can stop one more Palestinian exile.
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On
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, we recall that
#Jerusalem
was a robust hub of literary and journalistic activity in the first part of the twentieth century, when a freer press was possible. Jerusalem was one of two main media centers in Palestine; the other was Jaffa.
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The Jerusalem Story has its own complex vocabulary. Here’s one key term to know—Maqdisi. Visit the Lexicon on our website to learn more.
@ArabCenter_en
#jeruslemstory
#thecityretold
#lexicon
#palestinians
#jerusalem
#maqdisi
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Izzeldin Bukhari founded Sacred Cuisine to celebrate Palestinian culinary heritage and his city, Jerusalem, and to express the essence of his Sufi religion, which views feeding others as a form of love.
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#ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay
2024 is particularly haunting as we witness another genocide unfolding before our eyes in Gaza and the Armenians of Jerusalem facing attempted erasure from the Armenian Quarter.
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, as we witness live before us the ongoing depopulation of many villages of Gaza and the West Bank, we recall the capture and depopulation of many Palestinian villages around Jerusalem in 1948.
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On the third Friday of
#Ramadan
, the situation at Checkpoint 300 between
#Bethlehem
and
#Jerusalem
quiet. We spoke to an organizer with the South Bus Company, which is contracted to shuttle Palestinians—that is, those who are allowed to pass—to find out why.
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“Aud ekhad Mikey!” I heard one of the security officers shout out. “Another Mikey.” I kept hearing the name “Mikey” back and forth, until I realized something: I was a Mikey. We were all Mikey—all of us with the Jerusalem residency cards.
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“If you ask me how I did the map [of the wall] I would say 90 percent I took in my consideration demography, 2 or 3 percent holy sites, and maybe 7 or 8 percent only security.”
-Arnon Soffer, first architect of Israel’s Separation Wall
#jerusalemstory
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“Jerusalem has a special and precious place in the heart of the entire Arab world.” Nevin Shaheen, director of the Jerusalem Arab Film Festival (JAFF), spoke to us about the 3rd edition of the festival last month, which screened 32 films from the
#Arab
world over 6 days.
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The Palestinian community in
#EastJerusalem
answered the call for a
#globalstrikeforgaza
today, although they are already reeling from severe economic losses incurred since October 7 due to the war.
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Jerusalem never, until recently, experienced the life of ghettoes.”
~Nazmi Jubeh, Palestinian Jerusalemite historian | Full interview:
#jerusalemstory
#jerusalemcity
#thecityretold
#therealstory
#palestinians
#palestinianstories
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In Christian tradition, the Thurs. before
#Easter
is
#HolyThursday
, when Christians commemorate the Biblical story that Jesus, in one of his final acts, washed his Disciples’ feet. Here are two historic photos of this being reenacted at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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“Jerusalem is not Disneyland, and its landscape and heritage are not for sale.” — Statement from 70 Israeli archaeologists, architects, and public figures denouncing the cable car project over Jerusalem’s Old City
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Palestinian landowners in Silwan were stunned to find notices around their neighborhood advising them that the municipality would be expropriating 8.7 dunums of private land to work on support columns for a massive cable car; 60 days to object.
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The airport’s closure cuts Palestinian Jerusalem off from the world it once was open to, part of Israel’s closure regime. In 5 Minutes from Home, Filmmaker Nahed Awwad tells the story of the airport, vividly contrasting the open past with the asphyxiated present:
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Born August 18, 1950, Albert Aghazarian was a celebrated Armenian Palestinian with riveting historic details of Jerusalem and its people.
Read his bio on our website:
#jerusalemstory
#jerusalem
#palestinianstories
#community
#storyteller
#languages
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Top Israeli officials acknowledge failure of campaign to halt UNRWA international funding
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As Holy Saturday and Orthodox Easter draw near, we spoke with Palestinian Jerusalemite and community leader George Sahhar about why he sees attending Easter ceremonies in Jerusalem as a commitment to preserve the city’s mosaic.
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A report of the second day of the first Annual Palestine Forum in Doha, Qatar, where Jerusalem Story was relaunched under the auspices of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
@ArabCenter_en
@PalStudies
#jerusalemstory
#Palestine_Forum
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The city has deployed tens of portable bathrooms for the weeklong Jewish Sukkot holiday in the Armenian Quarter, right outside residents’ windows. Somehow none were deployed in other areas of the city…
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32-year-old Ahmad Ju‘beh has made quite the name for himself in the streets of
#Jerusalem
. If you’re lucky you may see this energetic performer juggling, riding a unicycle, or tossing a hula hoop.
Read more about Ju‘beh's story here.
@ahmadjubeh7
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The bridge will funnel visitors from W. Jerusalem directly to settler tourist sites, promoting a Jewish-only narrative of the city’s history and eliminating the need for visitors to engage w/Arabs on the ground.
#Disneyfication
@daoudkuttab
@khalilassali
@IrAmimAlerts
@emekshaveh
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What is Bab al-Amud?
The Arabic name for one of the seven open gates in the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem. See also Damascus Gate.
See The Gates of the Old City for more detailed information:
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