Sheikh Jarrah today smells of dirty socks and rotting flesh. Now we live in Sheikh Jarrah and my neighbours are about to be expelled from their homes. While Sheikh Jarrah makes the headlines, this type of harassment and settler violence is not new. But for Palestinians, Sheikh Jarrah is simply a microcosm of life in Jerusalem. A grocery store owner in Sheikh Jarrah recently told me: “Our entire lives have just been this … oppression, oppression, oppression.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2021 12:52 UTC