Mohammed El-Kurd
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IHIP News · Innocent Palestinians Forced From Their Homes, Survivor Speaks Out · 24 May 2026
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No credibility whatsoever, but I really think, you know, Palestine in a lot of ways has broken American politics.
It has.
And the American expression is that the chickens are coming home to roost, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, the chickens are coming home to roost.
i i feel hope and the hope also is is backed by statistics and um i also believe that hope as corny as this sounds i really believe it's like a political commitment a political obligation we cannot win if we don't believe that we will win but on top of my hope i just also feel
such a need and a necessary sorry a need and it's such a necessity for people to be more brave i think it's time for us to raise the ceilings about palestine about other things but after three years of genocide we cannot be still stuck in debates about what is this mean and what does this phrase mean what designs i mean we have to talk about life and death and either you're with life
or you're against it.
Thank you very much.
It's a pleasure.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sheikh Jarrah is, in a way, a typical neighborhood, despite the absurd reality that surrounds it. It's a typical neighborhood in terms of Palestinian neighborhoods. It's one that is threatened with colonialism, with settler expansion, and with forced expulsion. And it has been that way since the early 70s. My family, like all of the other families in Sheikh Jarrah,
were expelled from their homes in the Nakba in 1948, and they were forced out by the Haganah and other Zionist parallel militaries that later formed the Israeli military. And they were driven to various cities. And my grandmother moved from city to city, and she ended up in Sheikh Jarrah in 1956. Sheikh Jarrah was established as a refugee housing unit.
by the United Nations and by the Jordanian government, which had control over that part of Jerusalem at the time. And then people lived there harmoniously. They were all from different parts of Palestine. And, you know, they managed to rebuild their lives after the first expulsion.
And then in the 70s, you had certain organizations, many of whom were registered here in New York and in the United States, claiming our houses and our lands as their own by divine decree. And obviously because the judges are Israeli and the laws were written by Israeli settlers and the whole judiciary was established atop the rubble of our homes and villages, we had no real pull in the courts.
The Israeli courts would look at the Israeli documents, which we argue are falsified and fabricated, And they would take them at face value without authentication, and they refused to look at our documents. They refused to look at the documents from the Jordanian government, the documents from the UN, the documents from the Ottoman archives.
So you already have this kind of asymmetry in the court that for any person with common sense would lead you to believe that this is not, in fact, a legal battle or a real estate dispute, as the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs likes to frame it, but rather a very, very political battle.
social engineering, one is about demographics, one that is about removing as many Palestinians as possible from occupied Jerusalem. So we did what all Palestinian families in Jerusalem do when they're faced with this kind of threat and we bought time. We pleaded and pleaded and appealed the courts and appealed the cases and we got over 50 expulsion orders.
In 2009, rifle-wielding settlers accompanied by police and Israeli military came over and shoved our neighbors outside of their home around 5 a.m. It was the most brutal, violent thing I'd seen as a child at the time, and I didn't realize that my turn was coming. My turn was next. They threw them out in the middle of the night with sound bombs and rubber bullets, and they
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