IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Fact Sheets
In 2002, under the pretext of security, the Israeli government began unilaterally constructing a wall to separate Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, and from Israeli settlements built inside the West Bank. The IMEU offers the following explainer on Israel's West Bank wall.
on July 3, 2024
The Temple Mount movement is an extremist messianic Jewish movement whose goal is to build a temple inside the venerated Noble Sanctuary Mosque complex in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
on June 21, 2024
Palestinian refugees are Palestinians who have been expelled from their homes and homeland during and after Israel’s establishment in 1948. Israel forcibly displaces Palestinians and prevents Palestinian refugees from returning as part of an effort to establish and maintain a Jewish majority state in Palestine/Israel.
on June 19, 2024
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Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, the United Nations and international community have not recognized the sovereignty of any country to any part of Jerusalem in the absence of a permanent peace agreement in the region.
on June 16, 2024
Israeli settlements are segregated housing units for Jewish Israelis built illegally on Palestinian land occupied by the Israeli military in the June 1967 war.
on June 13, 2024
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Kahane was a far-right Jewish supremacist who espoused violence and wanted to establish a theocratic Jewish state and expel or enslave indigenous Palestinians.
on May 17, 2024
