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Posts published in “Jerusalem”
The JNF used to symbolize the hope for planting and rebuilding. Now it is acting as a proxy for settler groups bent on evicting a…
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‘How sad it is that Jerusalem, the city that for millennia was blessed with an amazing range of humanity, is today cut off as it…
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Walking the ‘Pilgrims’ Road’ was incredible. But archaeology is never just science: it is fundamentally political. Political projects can’t take priority over living-and-breathing Jerusalemites, both…
As Jerusalem’s deputy mayor, I helped Hopkins because I believe in debate. People with more extreme views and even more unsavory friends than her sit…
The Al-Aqsa Mosque keeps alive the natural response of a people living under hostile rule: popular resistance Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The settlements have no raison d’etre without a strong, constant connection to Israel. The new road won’t whitewash the settlements and it won’t make the…
The Australians recognize what is self-evident about West Jerusalem, but at the same time they also see as self-evident that East Jerusalem is slated to…
Widely seen as a European war, WWI’s impact on the Middle East was both devastating and transformative. But there’s been no armistice: A century later,…
The religious mayoral candidate, who could never be elected on his own, is liable to succeed anyhow, because the capital may not be cut out…
As Israel turns 70 this year, I can’t help but feel proud. It was hard for me to really understand what Israel was when I…