11-4-2014 ‘There’s no such thing as illegal houses, there is such thing as racist laws': Israelis demonstrate against collective punishment in East Jerusalem - Sarah Levy Mondoweiss

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…Kids are being arrested in the middle of the night, pulled out of their homes, interrogated without their parents, threatened while under arrest, and in some cases, held under house arrest once they're released from jail so they can't return to school," said Rothman-Zecher.

"If you look at the pattern of what's going on, these children's arrests, they're not remedial efforts, but part of this policy of collective punishment. The goal is that every young boy in Silwan, even as young as 7-years-old, should be too afraid to dare to challenge the occupation in any form because he knows that so many people have been arrested and he knows that he could be arrested at any time."

This systematic attack on East Jerusalemites' ability to live normal lives is part of Israel's attempt at "Judaization" (de-Arabization) such as the "70-30 policy" cited in the Jerusalem 2020 Master Plan. The policy states the goal of maintaining a demographic balance of at most 70-part Jews to 30-part Arabs and recommends various means of removing the Arab population and replacing them with Jews. (For more on the Master Plan see this summary here: PDF.)…

 

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