Reuters, an internationally respected news agency, wrote this headline:

Palestinian stabs rabbi in Arab East Jerusalem

Reading it, I would assume that the stabbing took place in an Arab neighborhood somewhere in the Eastern side of Jerusalem. That is not the case, it took place in the Old City. No Rabbi would walk around in “Arab East Jerusalem” because those neighborhoods are not safe. This was in a busy, diverse part of the “Muslim Quarter” of the Old City, just minutes from Downtown Jerusalem.

From Elder of Zion:

The incident happened in the Old City of Jerusalem, which from roughly 1870-1948 had a majority Jewish population. The Muslim Quarter, where this incident occurred, used to be called the “Mixed Quarter” because Jews, Muslims and Christians all lived there, until the 1929 pogroms against the Jews.

While there are parts of East Jerusalem that are predominantly Arab, to categorize all of East Jerusalem as “Arab” is an editorial comment, not a statement of fact. To say that the Old City is “Arab East Jerusalem” is pretty dishonest, even if there are more Arabs living there now than others. It is effectively enshrining Jordan’s illegal annexation and ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem for 19 years as being legitimate, and the existence of Jewish-owned lands in East Jerusalem as illusory. It is also meant to make the existence of a yeshiva in the Old City’s “Muslim” quarter look as if it is a recent “settlement,” when in fact the yeshiva is occupying the building of the only Jewish school or synagogue that was not destroyed by Jordan in 1948 (Torat Chaim, est. 1886.) All additional buildings that Ateret Cohanim own were purchased legally.

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