IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
U.S. charities are funding Israeli settler organizations working to evict Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes.
on May 14, 2021
Linah, 8 years old — or, in Gazan time, two wars old — asked sheepishly if “they” could still destroy our building now that the power had gone out.
on May 13, 2021
The young Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd sits quietly in front of his laptop with a grin on his face, preparing for the launch of his most recent manuscript, “Rifqa.” He seems excited, anxious and afraid all at once, as he revises his poems and the paragraphs about his grandmother. She died at 103 defending her home from Israeli settlers who had already squatted in one part of it. El-Kurd seems to clutch onto his words in an attempt to ensure that the memory of his grandmother, of himself and his lineage, remains with him.
on May 10, 2021
Failure to condemn anti-Palestinian violence will only further it.
on May 7, 2021
Social media users sharing content from Sheikh Jarrah complain their accounts have been censored, limited or shut down.
on May 7, 2021
The Human Rights Watch report is a valuable, sober, and deliberately uninflammatory piece of scholarship—which won’t make a damn bit of difference.
on May 5, 2021
Israeli special forces use batons and mounted horses to disperse Palestinian and international activists protesting in solidarity with families facing eviction
on May 5, 2021
Palestinians continue solidarity protests against forced displacement of families from the occupied East Jerusalem.
on May 5, 2021
Israel ordered six Palestinian families to leave their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on May 2 to make way for Jewish settlers.
on May 3, 2021