Right-wing media figures are misleading audiences about the facts to downplay the attempted displacement of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah by the Israeli government, one of the flashpoints that preceded the recent violent conflict in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. Some are dismissing the evictions as a mere landlord-tenant dispute, while others are claiming that the homes rightly belong to Israeli families while omitting the larger context.
The eviction of Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem is part of a decades-long “effort to remove thousands of Palestinians from strategic areas in East Jerusalem.” While the current right-wing Israeli government dismisses the evictions as merely a “real estate dispute,” the Council on Foreign Relations explained that the situation is more complex: