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11:00 am
My Neighbourhood
Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah are once again on the precipice of a new wave of evictions at the behest of Israeli settlers with the backing of the Israeli government and a green light from Israeli courts. Join Just Vision and the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) to hear the story of one Sheikh Jarrah family facing imminent eviction, and learn exactly what Palestinians are facing in their struggle to live in East Jerusalem under a mounting and multifaceted settler campaign.
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12:00 pm
My Neighbourhood
Join the Palestine Museum US for a virtual screening of My Neighbourhood followed by a discussion with Just Vision's Director of Communications, Daniel Nerenberg.
Time: 12:00 PM ET
PRI The World
The Washington Post
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11:00 am
My Neighbourhood
Join Just Vision's Creative Director, Julia Bacha, for clips from Budrus, followed by a post-screening discussion. This event is hosted by the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided at 1:30 pm and the screening will begin at 2:00 pm.
Mohammed El Kurd
Julia Bacha accepts Peabody Award
Yonatan Yosef is the spokesperson for the Israeli settlers living in Sheikh Jarrah. He sees the settlement of Jews in the neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem as a religious duty and an integral part of the Jewish “Return to Zion.” According to Yonatan, the eviction of Palestinian families is a necessary side effect in this effort. “Our dream is that all East Jerusalem will be like West Jerusalem:” Yonatan says, “A Jewish capital of Israel.”
Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy born and raised in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. At age 11, Mohammed comes home from school to find half of his home taken over by Israeli settlers and his grandmother hospitalized. Forced to live under the same roof as the settlers, Mohammed quickly develops deep feelings of animosity towards Israelis. Yet when Israeli activists begin arriving in the neighbourhood to join Palestinian residents in protests against the evictions, Mohammed is surprised. “These are Jews?
Rifka El Kurd is Mohammed’s grandmother, and has been living in the El Kurd family home in Sheikh Jarrah for over half a century. She first arrived in the neighbourhood as a refugee in the 1950s, after her family had been displaced from Haifa in the 1948 War. Rifka hopes the protests in the neighbourhood can help her regain her home, yet she is wary of Israeli participation in the struggle. “If you want to hear the truth, I don’t really trust them,” she says. “You’re telling me they will leave their people…their religion and join us? It’s not logical.”