Mohammed El-Kurd

Yeah, I mean, share is kind of an amicable word.

It was, you know, we were forced to live in half of our home, the other half was taken by settlers.

But to kind of paint an image, I want to say as absurd as it sounds, this is a reality that many, many, many thousands of Palestinians live with.

Our house in our neighborhood received so much media attention because we live in such a central neighborhood that was surrounded by all these international embassies and consulates.

So all these diplomats would watch us be constantly brutalized and terrorized by the Israeli military from their balcony.

So our house

and our neighborhood became the center of attention.

But what happened was all of our families in our neighborhood, 28 families, they were all dispossessed, forcibly expelled from their homes during the 1948 Nakba.

And then they were given these houses by the United Nations.

And in the 70s, there were settler organizations, Jewish American charities actually registered here as charities.

um who have sued us claiming our houses are are their own with falsified document by divine decree saying that god hang on i have to ask some questions yes please so your family owned a home yes and then a court an israeli court said you don't own this house anymore yes in the 70s and we in the 70s and then that where were these people from that came in and lived in half of your house the guy in half of my house is um from long island his name is

Well, I think it's pretty incestuous.

Let me paint you a picture.

I mean, we hear words like the court and the judicial system and eviction and legal, and we imbue these words with so much authority.

But what happens is these courts are built by Israeli settlers, right?

The laws, the ethnic cleansing is written into the law.

I have been displaced from my home in accordance to Israeli laws and procedures and protocols.

The guy that displaced me is a settler himself.

To paint you even a more cartoonish picture, I grew up

watching this guy called Yonatan Youssef walk around the neighborhood with a megaphone in his hand, chanting the most racist Islamophobic shit, right, against us.