House & Home via Jezebel
Almost more interesting because it was found on Jezebel, a culture, fashion and celeb gossip blog. I love it when the cause goes mainstream.
[Jerusalem, November 3. Image via Getty]
A Palestinian schoolgirl stands near Israeli security forces guarding a Palestinian house in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah after Israeli settlers took control over the house accompanied with a private security company following an Israeli court order on November 03, 2009. Dozens of Israeli settlers took over the house armed with a court order secured after a protracted legal battle with a Palestinian family, witnesses and police said. embers of the Al-Kurd family demonstrated in front of the house along with other Arab residents and pro-Palestinian activists as the settlers hurled the family’s belongings out onto the street, a neighbour told AFP. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
via House & Home – Sheikh jarrah – Jezebel.
“It’s absolutely deplorable that this country treats ideology and intellectual debate the way it does. But: we owe to this its ironies. Its tolerance. Its decision not to take too seriously what in other countries have proved fatal challenges. It is my conviction that had the infinite rhetorical genius of Adolf Hitler been tested on Hyde Park Corner, people would have said, ‘Ah, come off it,’ and walked away.”
