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Quick Facts: East Jerusalem Fact Sheets

Quick Facts: East Jerusalem

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
Fact Sheet: Rabbi Dov Lior Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: Rabbi Dov Lior

Dov Lior is an influential extremist Israeli settler rabbi and leading figure in the religious Zionist movement; former longtime chief rabbi of Israel’s illegal settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and former head of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].

on September 1, 2023
Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba (“Catastrophe”) Fact Sheets
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Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba (“Catastrophe”)

The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947-49). The Nakba was not an unintended result of war. It was a deliberate and systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine, which was overwhelmingly Arab prior to 1948.

on April 5, 2023
Tax-Exempt U.S. Nonprofits Fuel Israeli Settler Push to Evict Palestinians
Alex Kane, The Intercept

Tax-Exempt U.S. Nonprofits Fuel Israeli Settler Push to Evict Palestinians

U.S. charities are funding Israeli settler organizations working to evict Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes.

on May 14, 2021
In Their Own Words: Senior Israeli Officials on Palestinian Statehood (2015) Fact Sheets
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In Their Own Words: Senior Israeli Officials on Palestinian Statehood (2015)

The IMEU's latest fact sheet summarizes the views of senior officials in the new extreme Israeli right-wing government towards the Palestinians, in their own words.

on May 27, 2015
Fact Sheet: The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre

Early on the morning of February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, wearing his army uniform and carrying his army-issued assault rifle, walked past Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint and into the Ibrahimi Mosque. It was the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims and there were 400 or 500 Palestinian men worshipping.

on February 27, 2014
Is Israel an Apartheid State? Fact Sheets
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?

The United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1973) defines apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them."

on October 4, 2013
Fact Sheet: Israel’s Extremist Rabbis Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: Israel’s Extremist Rabbis

On July 22, Israeli media reported that Israel's Supreme Court ruled against a petition asking that the controversial Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu be barred from running for the post of Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi. Eliyahu, currently the chief rabbi of the city of Safed, has been accused of inciting racism and intolerance against Arabs and others. Eliyahu receives a salary from the Israeli government.

on July 23, 2013
Fact Sheet: The Palestinian Nakba & The Establishment of Israeli Apartheid Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: The Palestinian Nakba & The Establishment of Israeli Apartheid

The IMEU offers this fact sheet on the Nakba, which led to the displacement of up to one million Palestinians. The Palestinian refugee and displaced person population is the largest and longest-standing in the world.

on May 8, 2013
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