Jerusalem 
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/10/2023
Who Attacked Jascha Heifetz in 1953?
Although ties to Jewish extremist organizations were suspected, the person who attacked a violinist in 1953, allegedly for performing the works of Richard Strauss, has never been found. The story resonates with conflicts in Israeli society today.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/15/2023
Will the US Build an Embassy on Palestinian Land in Jerusalem?
by Rashid Khalidi
As the new ultra-right wing Israeli government prepares to escalate the dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the United States should not allow the siting of its embassy to give cover to this project.
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SOURCE: TIME
11/3/2021
How Christian Archaeologists Fed Today's Strife in Jerusalem
by Andrew Lawler
The incursions of 19th century Christian archaeologists onto Jerusalem's historic acropolis created a sense of seige on the part of Palestinian Muslims, which is echoed today in ongoing conflict over the city's religious sites.
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5/23/2021
Jerusalem: A Divided and Invented City
by James A.S. Sunderland
Both Hamas and the Israeli right base their claims to Jerusalem on understandings of the city as shaped by the orientalist and segregationist values of British governors during the Mandate period, and not on the city's longer heterogenous and multicultural history. Peace activists look to that history as an example of coexistence.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/12/2021
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has Often been a Site of Conflict
by Ken Chitwood
"Controlled access to the site reminds Palestinians of their relative powerlessness in their ongoing land disputes with Israeli authorities. At the same time, attacks at Al-Aqsa resonate with Muslims across the world who react with horror to what they see as the desecration of one of their most sacred sites."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/10/2021
Sheikh Jarrah Highlights the Violent Brazenness of Israel's Colonialist Project
by Noura Erakat and Mariam Barghouti
Media attention to the recent actions of Zionist settlers displacing Palestinian occupants of East Jerusalem should not give the impression that this activity is new. The authors argue it is part of a process that has been continuous since 1948.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
5/11/2021
Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
by Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart argues that the history of the Jewish people and the events of 1948 compel Israeli political leaders and American and world Jewish organizations to recognize a right of return for displaced Palestinians as part of a resolution to the current crisis in East Jerusalem.
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SOURCE: Discover
11/29/2020
The Complicated History of Religion and Archaeology
Modern archaeology has largely succeeded in instituting professionalization and historical rigor to the study of sites of theological significance, but the discipline has a long and continuing historical entanglement with efforts to find proof of religious doctrines.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-23-2018
Jerusalem Criticizes Berlin’s Jewish Museum for ‘Anti-Israel Activity’
Its latest show, “Welcome to Jerusalem,” also got people talking. And it appeared to draw criticism from an unlikely source: the highest levels of the Israeli government.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
12-24-2018
If Trump Wants to Divide Jerusalem into Three
by Daniel Pipes
If Ben Caspit is correct about Trump proposing to divide Jerusalem into three, the consequences will be major and long lasting.
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12/23/2018
We Wanted to Publish an Illustrated History of the Holy Land. We Couldn’t Make Everybody Happy.
by H. G. M. Williamson
One compromise was to stop our history in 1918.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-8-2018
What Happens When a Holocaust Memorial Plays Host to Autocrats
Yad Vashem is both a memorial of a genocide, and a tool of Israeli realpolitik.
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SOURCE: Mosaic
12-28-17
The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem
by Martin Kramer
One-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so.
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SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
12-12-17
Gil Troy back’s Trump decision on Jerusalem
The McGill historian says Israelis shouldn’t be deterred just because there’s opposition.
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SOURCE: The Nation
12-8-17
Rashid Khalidi opposes Trump decision on Jerusalem
by Rashid Khalidi
But he sees a silver lining: “The US Can No Longer Pretend to Be an Honest Broker of Peace.”
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SOURCE: BESA Center Online Debate
12-11-17
Daniel Pipes backs Trump decision on Jerusalem
by Daniel Pipes
"Good for Trump ignoring threats of the Arab street rising up; the riot veto must not be allowed to determine policy."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
12-8-17
Why Trump’s evangelical supporters welcome his move on Jerusalem
by Julie Ingersoll
The nation of Israel and the role of the city of Jerusalem are central in the “end-times” theology – a form of what is known as “pre-millennialism” – embraced by many American conservative Protestants.
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SOURCE: The Middle East Media Research Institute
12-7-17
Pakistani Historian Mobarak Haidar says Muslims “have no religious basis to rule Jerusalem”
His comments were circulated widely by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
12-6-17
Another way Trump will get us Killed: to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
by Juan Cole
Israel conquered most of Jerusalem and its hinterlands in 1967. It then annexed these regions in a quite illegal move.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-3-17
The Conflict in Jerusalem Is Distinctly Modern
Here’s the history.
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