Understanding the Sheikh Jarrah Property Dispute
Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the... Critics of Israel in this case have adopted the bigoted position that property rights should depend on ethnicity and that Jewish ethnicity should be the grounds for denying legal property rights. In doing so they have distorted the facts, perverted international law and attempted to intimidate Israel’s courts and law enforcement officials into adopting the critics’ bigotry. The legal basis of the parties’ property rights The legal rights of the parties themselves were...