In Jaffa, relentless gentrification complicates an already strained Arab-Jewish reality
Get email notification for articles from Eness Elias Follow Apr. 27, 2021 11:56 AM The tension that erupted again in the streets of Jaffa last week was not a result of the COVID-10 crisis or localized violence. What is provoking residents of this southernmost part of Tel Aviv to protest are long-term problems for which no solution is in sight: deliberate neglect, an absence of infrastructure, crime, and police violence and over-enforcement, along with a lack of opportunities and a reality in which veteran residents are being squeezed out of their homes. The messages and discourse of the dem...
Source: haaretz.com