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Israeli National News

Arutz Sheva is being used for facts (that so far, in lieu of good sources, turn out to be claims. I.e. 'there were about 100 Jewish houses in the neighborhood.') It is a settler newspaper advocacy organ and repeatedly at RSN the verdict has been that it is unreliable for historical facts. I removed use of it, and it was summarily restored. Nishidani (talk) 14:05, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

The fact that the sentence itself states 'about' should alert editors to the problem. In whose estimation? Nishidani (talk) 14:06, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Enthusiast. You keep restoring this, without having responded to the above. And by the way, another editor notified your page that your practice of adding material and then putting a cn tag, is bad practice. One never edits anything into Misplaced Pages without a source, and in this area a strong source. And one certainly cannot arbitrary remove a RS source claiming, as you have, that the source contradicts facts you believe you are privy to.Nishidani (talk) 09:07, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Accuracy? Slant?

This article seems to be unusually slanted. First, I’ve never seen a number as high as 850,000 for the Arabs who fled Israel in 1948. That number seems extremely exaggerated; what references are provided to support this? Second, there are multiple references to the legal system in Israel being biased against Arab property claims; this repeated emphasis seems odd, as well as suspect. Khommel (talk) 03:41, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

The timeline of events does not seem to match that which is presented in https://en.wikipedia.org/Sheikh_Jarrah The article does seem slanted as well. For instance, even the titles of sections are slanted "The Jordanian Period" vs "Israeli Occupation". Either say ".... Period" for both or "....occupation" for both. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.75.135 (talk) 15:13, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

The Jordan era (I would refer to it as Jordanian rule) was not an occupation, there are no sources saying that and there are no UN resolutions saying that either.Selfstudier (talk) 15:18, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

The Jordan 'era' resulted in annexation of the West Bank by Jordan. This was regarded as illegal and void by many countries including other Arab League nations. Other parts of this article appear unusually slanted as well: for example, the difference in tone between 'fled/expelled' and 'evacuated' (for Palestinians/Jews respectively) in discussing refugees of the 1947-49 War conflates the situation and suggests that one side were forced refugees while the other were willing to leave. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.40.46.66 (talk) 23:55, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

This discussion can't go very far without some structure. So what I suggest is that we use the standard form of "edit request" ie Change X to Y (per some source). And we will go from there.Selfstudier (talk) 12:16, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

False edit summary

This was removed:

Bernie Sanders argues that the Palestinian families subject to these eviction orders must navigate 'a legal system designed to facilitate their forced displacement.'

I.e., a notable US figure and ex-Presidential candidate commented specifically on this dispute. The reason given for its removal is policywise, incomprehensible and indeed false. I.e.

'So torn from context an d alienated in meaning

1. Bernie Sanders, 'The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government,' The New York Times 14 May 2021

What on earth is that supposed to mean?.Nishidani (talk) 11:59, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BuySomeApples (talk) 04:48, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• Comment or view
• Article history

• ... that the deputy mayor of Jerusalem explained that the Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases are part of a municipal strategy to create “layers of Jews” throughout East Jerusalem? Source: Evictions in Jerusalem Become Focus of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, May 7, 2021: "But Mr. King, the deputy mayor, said “of course” they are part of a wider strategy of installing “layers of Jews” throughout East Jerusalem. That policy, Mr. King said, “is the way to secure the future of Jerusalem as a Jewish capital for the Jewish people.” “If we will not be in big numbers and if we will not be at the right places in strategic areas in East Jerusalem,” he added, then future peace negotiators “will try to divide Jerusalem and to give part of Jerusalem to our enemy.”"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Chariot of Israel: Britain, America and the State of Israel

Created by Enthusiast01 (talk) and Onceinawhile (talk). Nominated by Onceinawhile (talk) at 20:38, 17 May 2021 (UTC).

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The framing of King explaining what the eviction cases are doesn't seem quite right, since it implies without sourcing that that's what they really are. How about "...described the Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases as part of...", or something like that?

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px: - Not quite clear enough at 100px, I don't think. Might need to add a different image to the article or run this without one.

Overall: The article is of course not perfect (but articles don't need to be perfect for DYK), and the talk page is quite something, as are the talk pages for a lot of articles under ARBPIA. But this nomination is eligible and almost ready to go. With that said, I've flagged two minor issues with the nom above. Once they're fixed, please use {{subst:DYK?again}} to request another reviewer to double-check. ezlev_tlk/ctrbs 23:33, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@Ezlev: thanks for this. I am fine with your proposed amendment to the hook. Many thanks.

Onceinawhile (talk) 07:46, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

• This article is tagged for neutrality and there is an ongoing RFC in that regard. In my view, this should not proceed until it is resolved.Selfstudier (talk) 09:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
• Neutrality issues have not been addressed in the almost-two months since Selfstudier's comments. With how it appears that it won't be resolved anytime soon and the lack of activity on this nomination, it appears that there is no feasible path forward at this time. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:28, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• Agreed. Ongoing issues with the article and a current rfc make it unlikely that this article ready anytime soon. It can be renominated if the article gets cleaned up and promoted to GA in the future. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:48, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

controversial statement: rejection of Law

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Since when a law reject something. The law states what is legal not what is not feasible nor what is not stated. Basically, palestinan revendications in Israel aren't linked to this law, and are not possible for several reasons, mainly because they were nationalized and they are enemy population... Please delete this propaganda piece in the introduction.

Secondly it's not about Jews, it's about Israelis owning land in West Bank. --Rectangular dome (talk) 12:18, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

File an edit request stating what you want.Selfstudier (talk) 12:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Separate what state the law from the stated political considerations :-) --Rectangular dome (talk) 12:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

There are two relevant bodies of law. Israel's laws (technicians call them the 'institutionalization of dispossession') and international law. The conflict is not political, but between the two systems. International law is neutral to the parties: Israeli law is, as one scholar wrote, 'ethnicity-based'.Nishidani (talk) 13:04, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

You mix different things for political motives. Scholar may have opinions or "technicians", etc...

Edit request : " separate what the law Is, from the political speculation about what it is about palestinians etc. It's a law applied on Israel not on Palestinians, or on Palestine, or whatever that is not Israel. You can call it dispossession, land won in warfare, etc all that is a political debate/ a reflexion on it, if you don't like to be portrayed as politically motivated...

Basically.. just write the law and stop doing propaganda ( I mean the academic definition,not "bad rethoric" or "lies" etc) on what selective scholar think about it, or about what are the implications for palestinians in certain legal framework outside of the Israeli one, or simply outside of this law. Very easy to understand...

Edit request : write about what the law says, is it written "Jews"? No, take it off. Is it written "Palestinians? No take it off. Etc.. stop disinformation thank you --Rectangular dome (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:29, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Bias

The Palestinian view is written in the introduction but the Israeli one. Please respect NPOV--Rectangular dome (talk) 12:20, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Per above, file an edit request. Else no-one knows what it is you actually want.Selfstudier (talk) 12:50, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

I propose to remove it. Its WP:UNDUE the publication is not scholarly one. Also the author is not academic --Shrike (talk) 14:11, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Shrike, if so how did it get onto JSTOR? They have high standards. I suggest you take this to WP:RSN. Onceinawhile (talk) 18:14, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Idk if it helps or not, there was a discussion, https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:2021_Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_crisis/Archive_3#Socialist_lawyers Selfstudier (talk) 18:34, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Jstor is just an archive. The publisher is not academic.And of course she is reliable for their own words but here the question of WP:DUE Shrike (talk) 19:24, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Name

Selfstudier has rightly pointed out that the characterization of this topic as just a “property dispute” has been widely stated in the media to be non-neutral POV spin.

Does anyone have any good ideas for neutral alternatives?

Onceinawhile (talk) 04:36, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Its not POV spin at all. Its NPOV descriptive name Shrike (talk) 06:35, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Most rs seems to focus on the fact of the evictions rather than a characterization. eg FT 19 May,

"How Arab evictions sparked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Legal battle over settlers’ claims in East Jerusalem sparked protests that led to Gaza aerial barrage". There are some commentators who go beyond "evictions" and refer to it as forced displacement or similar, the UN has called it like that for a long time now. So whether it is POV or not I couldn't really say for certain but in any case it doesn't matter because rs mostly are not simply calling it a property dispute. I think it might be called The Sheikh Jarrah evictions, perhaps or even the Sheikh Jarrah affair.Selfstudier (talk) 07:32, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

I have no problem with affair --Shrike (talk) 09:06, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

'Affair' is in one strong RS, but by now it rings rather lamely, redolent of the usage which established the idiom in the Dreyfus Affair. A dispute running for half a century is not adequately characterized as an 'affair' (a word most associate with romance in this context) though intended as an event or set of events that raises concern, and implying something that blows over (the Watergate Affair) Nishidani (talk) 09:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Sheikh-Jarrah-gate.

Onceinawhile (talk) 10:15, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Heh ,:)Selfstudier (talk) 10:20, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Joking aside, I think “Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases” might have a good balance to it. Used by both WaPo and ToI. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

And you already have https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/middleeast/evictions-jerusalem-israeli-palestinian-conflict-protest.html cited (this also says "which Israeli officials dismiss as "a real estate dispute,").Selfstudier (talk) 11:10, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Hmm. This thread started by @WillowCity: suggesting that the term "eviction" is a sanitized pro-Israeli term is interesting.

John Oliver covered this in his recent piece:video, script

• John Oliver: The threat of eviction is accurate only in a very superficial level — in that one day you live somewhere, the next day you don’t, and that change wasn’t your choice, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. It’s like running a headline that says “Matt Gaetz reaches out to Florida youth.” Sure, not inaccurate. But it’s missing some pretty crucial details about the exact nature of that interaction.
• Mohammed El-Kurd: To start, it’s not really an eviction. It’s forced ethnic displacement, to be accurate. Eviction does not imply the hundreds and hundreds of heavily armed police and army and settlers colluding, blowing up your doors, throwing your children from your windows and using brute force to throw you out in the street and assaulting and arresting you should you resist. It doesn’t imply the grenades. It doesn’t imply the rubber-coated bullets.

Onceinawhile (talk) 13:14, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Having done some more checking about and reviewing sources, I think there is a good case for detailing in the article the international law position. I am in two minds about how to say it in the article title, I suppose evictions is OK if it is elaborated on in the article body. WillowCity thread mentioned above is ongoing.Selfstudier (talk) 17:15, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 20 May 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Closed by proposer to allow new proposal Selfstudier (talk) 15:04, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Sheikh Jarrah property dispute → ? – Current title is non neutral and reflects the position of the Israeli government as stated in the section above "which Israeli officials dismiss as "a real estate dispute,". Many sources refer to the fact of "evictions" rather than attempting a characterization of the situation and there are also sources describing the events as forced displacement, expulsions or similar so any title should reflect this. Selfstudier (talk) 13:28, 20 May 2021 (UTC) Selfstudier (talk) 13:27, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Bad WP:RM you have to propose an alternative title and not just question mark anyhow I oppose any name change as this title neutral and descriprive --Shrike (talk) 14:05, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

It says "(or with a simple question mark, if you want more than one possible new name to be considered)" and as I suggested in my statement, I am open to any name that does not reflect the non neutral position of the Israeli government and is common in sources. We only need a descriptive name if there is no common name.Selfstudier (talk) 14:23, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Can you close this please and I can make an actual move request? nableezy - 14:57, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

@Nableezy: There you go.Selfstudier (talk) 15:07, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

move request 2

Withdrawn for a new move request

Sheikh Jarrah property dispute → Expulsions of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah – The current title is POV and that is established by a number of reliable sources. Examples include Euronews: One of the sparks that lit the fuse of the latest conflict came from a small neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, where Israeli settlers are working to evict Palestinian families. What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah has been characterised by the settlers and their supporters as a mere property dispute., Raja Shehadeh in The New Yorker: Israel argues that the situation in Sheikh Jarrah is merely a straightforward property dispute. In fact, what it demonstrates, above all, is the city’s endemic discrimination. The Scotsman: The 23-year-olds live and work near the embattled Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, which is the focus of an attempt to remove Palestinian families from their homes, in what the Israeli government terms a “property dispute”. It is an established fact, per several reliable sources, that "property dispute" represents the specific POV of one of the parties involved. The opposing POV, that this is "ethnic cleansing" can likewise be found in sources as the POV of the Palestinians, examples include The chief of Hamas' diaspora office, Khaled Meshaal, described Israel's eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem as "ethnic cleansing.", Eviction is a legal process that tends to happen when people are unable to pay their rent and landlords make claims to move that process forward. That is a completely different situation than what we are talking about here: forced expulsion of people because of their identity. This amounts, essentially, to ethnic cleansing. just as "property dispute" can be. So we have two opposing POVs, one where the issue is downplayed to a mere property dispute and one where it is framed as a war crime. Thankfully we have other options. Sources that back "expulsions", forced or otherwise, include the following: al Jazeera: Israel’s high court has postponed a ruling on the forced expulsion of four Palestinian families here after a violent crackdown on protests and prayer by Israeli security forces. The scene is one of several shared on social media from the near-nightly confrontations between Israeli police and protesters against the expulsion of eight Palestinian families from the neighbourhood, which is claimed by Jewish settlers., NY Times: The court was to decide on Monday whether to uphold an expulsion order for the families in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, in a hearing that many feared would set off a wave of unrest, Washington Post: The families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood bought their land and built their homes, residing there for decades, following their expulsion from other parts of the country in 1948. But now eight Palestinian households face expulsion, part of several legal challenges from a U.S.-based settler organization that disputes who owns the land., Des Moines Register: In a statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people, dozens in Des Moines joined global protests Friday against the military occupation of Palestine and the most recent Israeli bombings, attacks and the forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Sources also support "evictions" though that has its own POV spin, but eviction would likewise be a marked improvement over "property dispute" in terms of POV. The current title is a blatant NPOV violation in that it asserts the POV of one of the parties, a POV rejected by a huge number of sources. It is slightly unwieldy to propose two names at once, but I think Expulsions is preferred over Evictions which is preferred over property dispute. nableezy - 15:10, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose, blatantly non-neutral. Courts have determined the Arabs are squatters who never held title and refuse to pay rent to the rightful owners. Perhaps a move to Arab squatters in Sheikh Jarrah would be more fitting than the current title in reflecting the legal case that has been duly decided by the courts.Free1Soul (talk) 16:59, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
• comment - I would like to expand slightly, we have several sources that make clear that this is not an issue of Israeli law. East Jerusalem is widely considered occupied territory, not Israeli territory, and Israeli civil law is not what is at issue here. The UN Human Rights office has said “Given the disturbing scenes in Sheikh Jarrah over the past few days, we wish to emphasize that East Jerusalem remains part of the occupied Palestinian territory, in which International Humanitarian Law applies. The occupying Power must respect and cannot confiscate private property in occupied territory, and must respect, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.” He went on to note that Israel cannot impose its own set of laws in occupied territory, including East Jerusalem, to evict Palestinians from their homes.] Free1Soul is presenting this as though this is some private issue, reflecting one extreme end of a POV, as described by reliable sources that say, for example The United Nations Commission for Human Rights has called the forced removal of Palestinian families a potential war crime. Israeli officials have called it a "real-estate dispute between private parties. We are describing potential war crimes as a property dispute, and saying a change from that is blatantly non-neutral. nableezy - 18:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

@Nableezy: Per WP:RMCOMMENT you shouldn't vote here as the proposer. I suggest to move you comment to nomination --Shrike (talk) 20:10, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

modified to a comment. nableezy - 23:11, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

• Support - it strikes me as more descriptive of this event, especially in terms of how people will be searching for it. It seems unlikely that many people will be looking up a property dispute nor is that the only dimension to this "event".Dan Carkner (talk) 19:42, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose as not neutral the proposed title is not WP:COMMONNAME anyhow and extreme violation of WP:NPOV --Shrike (talk) 20:04, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
• Support As part of their 2021 report on Israel and the crime of apartheid:-

April 2021 Human Rights Watch, A Threshold Crossed:Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution 2021 p112 & footnoted for Sheikh Jarrah "Beyond formal state confiscation, discriminatory laws and policies enable settler and settler organizations to take possession of Palestinian homes, evict the Palestinian landowners, and transfer their property to Jewish owners in East Jerusalem neighborhoods."

while Amnesty asserts that it is a war crime

Amnesty 10 May 2021 Israel/ OPT: End brutal repression of Palestinians protesting forced displacement in occupied East Jerusalem "Four Palestinian families in the neighbourhood are under imminent threat of forced eviction..... Forcible transfer of the occupied population is prohibited under international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime according to the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court."

If anything, expulsions understates the case.Selfstudier (talk) 23:02, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Those "reports" by advocacy organizations doesn't prove anything. Even the founder of HRW criticized the organisation for their anti-Israeli agenda Shrike (talk) 10:29, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

• Support: the present title is 100% how the Israeli government wants to portray it. It ignores what the rest of the world/the international community says: namely that Israel has 0 right to the properties in the land occupied since 1967, Huldra (talk) 23:42, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose this strikes me as WP:ADVOCACY. - Scarpy (talk) 06:33, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose New title has the potential to be misleading. If the residents are evicted from certain properties in Sheikh Jarrah, AFAIK, they can potentially move to another available one and are not being expelled from the neighbourhood. Something like Evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah would be more accurate. However, I would also be interested to know if the Israeli courts have upheld any Palestinian claims to buildings – if they have, I think the current title is appropriate (although possibly should be changed to Sheikh Jarrah property disputes as the article covers multiple separate disputes) and should be expanded to cover these. Number 57 11:46, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
  • From a quick search, it does appear that there have been court rulings in favour of the Palestinian residents and ones that Israeli settlers should be evicted; This report details examples of courts ruling against evictions of Palestinians (p43) and in favour of evictions of Israeli settlers (p14, p46), although these weren't enforced. As such, I am leaning to sticking with the current title and making it plural. Also, if the Israeli Supreme Court ends up ruling in favour of the Palestinian residents in the current case, the move will look a bit odd. Number 57 12:04, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Several reliable sources explicitly state that the current title is the POV of the settlers and the right-wing Israeli government. That the "property disputes" are in fact "international human rights law violations". nableezy - 14:39, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

But there was no evictions so the proposed title is factually incorrect --Shrike (talk) 14:45, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

There have been numerous evictions in the past. Number 57 15:02, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2021/03/10/joint-urgent-appeal-to-the-united-nations-special-procedures-on-forced-evictions-in-east-jerusalem-1615372889.pdf Selfstudier (talk) 15:05, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

This isnt a topic restricted to a single case or year. There indeed have been plenty of forced removals of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah. nableezy - 15:06, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

This article talks about current dispute if you want to change the scope of the article you should open an RFC --Shrike (talk) 15:09, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Or make a move request. Which is what I am doing. nableezy - 15:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

• Comment This request reminds me of the move of "Creation-evolution controversy" to "Rejection of evolution by religious groups", albeit far more controversial (somehow!). The word "dispute" is not explicitly listed at WP:WORDS (pr WP:LABEL specifically), but it does read to me as having the same general effect. My feeling is that we ought to lean heavily on WP:COMMONNAME, but that's challenging in a case like this where the specific incident has diverse referents in the media. Is anyone aware of title naming precedent for other articles related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? Suriname0 (talk) 16:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Either eviction or expulsion is the name I've seen most widely used in the non-partisan press. Evictions maybe more common in the US press at least. But "property dispute" is about on par with "ethnic cleansing" in terms of it being one extreme end of the POV spectrum. Well that and "Arab squatters" offered up above. nableezy - 17:20, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

• See recent documentary: This documentary from Vice News gives a good illustration of this issue, in the context of deciding on the right title. I was particularly surprised to see the interview with a man who had been expelled about a decade ago, with all his belongings lost and nowhere to live. Onceinawhile (talk) 19:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose, one-sided advocacy.--Geshem Bracha (talk) 08:24, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose while many may try to make this out into a broader part of the IP conflict, this is in effect nothing more than a property dispute, and one that impacts 4-5 families. Sir Joseph 00:50, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

::While six Palestinian families may be directly implicated in the current round of attempted expulsions, your comment ignores the hundreds of Palestinians forcibly displaced from Sheikh Jarrah, the thousands expelled from East Jerusalem, and the millions unable to return to the occupied territories. Definitely not just a "property dispute" between private parties, but rather a microcosm of much broader issues.WillowCity (talk) 11:36, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose concur this is one sided advocacy; non-neutral and not the common name. ProcSock (talk) 10:10, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

  To add, see sources here. Even in the sources Nableezy gave on that page, this was not the most used term. The NYT source Nableezy gave overwhelmingly uses 'evictions' not 'expulsions'. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:55, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Even in the sources Nableezy gave on that page, this was not the most used term. and then mentions one source, ignoring every other one. And also, no, the NYT does not overwhelmingly use eviction, it has evict(ion) and expl 5 times each. And pray tell, which of those call it a "property dispute" for those claiming that using the terminology of right-wing settlers is not one sided advocacy but using the language of the United Nations is. Regardless, will open a new request for evictions and see how much one sided advocacy people are comfortable with here. Just as long as it is on the side of war crimes I guess. nableezy - 13:23, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

*Support Thanks for suggesting this edit, as I commented on another talk page it's not appropriate or true to WP:NPOV to use language that aligns with Israeli domestic law to the exclusion of international legal opinion. Aside from "expulsion", I would be open to terms like "forced displacement" or even "Removal of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah". WillowCity (talk) 11:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC) User is not allowed to participate here as per WP:A/I/PIA --Shrike (talk) 11:50, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Apologies, I was under the impression that talk pages were fair game? I.e. "Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive." Is the talk page off limits for some reason? It would be nice if that was made a little clearer for new editors like myself, thanks!WillowCity (talk) 12:27, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

It's not permitted to comment in "internal project discussions"; ArbCom has clarified this to include requested moves. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Comment

I have made up a table of relevant sources, please feel free to add to it.Selfstudier (talk) 12:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Does the law says only Jews are allowed to file claims over the land or does it just an interpretation of the law made by the sources?

It it said in the introduction "Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned". But in the law itself (The Absentees’ Property Law which gives the land to the state) and the other related law (Legal and Administrative Matters Law which allows getting the land back from the state) I didn't find any statement regarding the religion of the person. Is it correct to say that saying that the law allows only jews is nothing more than an (incorrect) interpretation of the law made by the sources and not the law itself? Doesn't the real reason for Palestinians not being able to claim their land is because they are present absentees and not because they are not Jewish? 84.229.154.9 (talk) 00:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

1. https://he.wikisource.org/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7_%D7%A0%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D (Hebrew)
2. https://www.nevo.co.il/law_html/law01/319_009.htm#_ftn1 (Hebrew)

Distinction without a difference given that present absentees was a status created to give to Palestinians who were internally displaced and not Jews who were likewise internally displaced. nableezy - 01:55, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

But does an Israeli Arab citizen, who stayed in Israel in 1948-1949, can file the claim? Because by what I can see in the content of the laws, they can 84.229.154.9 (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

An Arab citizen of Israel either stayed in his or her home or was internally displaced. The former has no claim to any lost property since they did not lose it, the latter are classified as present absentees. nableezy - 17:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for being annoying :) I'm not a lawyer just trying to understand. It might not be the place for it, but if what I'm thinking is correct, then the article is misleading. This is just hypothetical - if an Arab Israeli owned a land, but wasn't living in it, can they file a claim for their property? Because again, I can't see why wouldn't they in the law, and if they can, then it's not just for Jews. 84.229.154.9 (talk) 17:30, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

No. Regardless, this isnt the place to discuss the topic, this talk page is meant to discuss the article. The material in the article on the law allowing for reclamation of property allowing Jews to reclaim property abandoned but not Arabs is well sourced, and absent any source disputing it there isnt anything to really discuss here. nableezy - 17:53, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

We go by the sources. The question as posed is anyway a bit loose, it needs to be much more specific. Take a look at https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/reports/the-absentee-property-law-and-its-implementation-in-east-jerusalem.pdf (Section 4 and the conclusions on 90-93).Selfstudier (talk) 18:07, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

The page starts with saying: "Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned. In this specific case, the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah are refugees who have no right under Israeli law to repossess their pre-1948 homes in Haifa, Sarafand and Jaffa."

well there is a lot of unaccurasy here: 1. every person, Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Druze, and others can claim ownership to property owned prior to 1948 and after it, by law, many non Israeli ciztizens Palestinians fails to claim property ownership in Israel, since Israeli law granted the state of Israel all the lands it had control in after the end of 1947–1949 Palestine war, the disputed land, was bought by jewish trust prior to the war, and it was residented by Palestinian refugees but Jordan didnt make it an eminent domain after conquering west bank in 1948.. Therefore by law, the land ownership remained under its owners of prior to the war. - both laws considered legal by both Israeli and UN Laws.

2. saying that the law is only pro jewish is absurd since Israeli Court also evicted 350 resident of Amona Settelment, after Palestinians showed ownership papers of the land.

3. In 1982 the residents and the owners came to agreement states that: the resident acknowledge the owner's ownership of the land, and agreed to pay rent to avoid evictions. In 1993 the owners requested eviction of the residents for not paying rent. Some residents asked for cancelation of the agreement, but Israeli court denyied the plea, non agreement between the land owners and its residents, and the residents refusal to pay rent is the main reason of the treat of eviction by the court verdict.

you may add other groups Interpretations of the events, but this is just Interpretations, and not the reasons that given by the court verdict which are being justified by Israel laws.

this Paragraph should be changed. Nahnieli (talk) 19:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Please read WP:OR, we base our articles on what reliable secondary sources say. Besides, your understanding of the law is seriously lacking, it applies to territory Israel claims as its own, not the West Bank settlements. Illegal settlements when proved to be built on privately owned Palestinian land indeed rarely have court ordered evictions. Even rarer is the actual carrying out of those orders. But it has nothing to do with this law, and your original research on it is a, irrelevant, and b. incorrect. nableezy - 19:30, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

this are seocndary sources. also: I dont think I am wrong, I think you dont know the Israeli Laws or you didnt understand me / I didnt explain myself good, anyone can claim land ownership to lands he owned prior to 1948, (doesn't mean he would win the court) in the lands where there is an Israeli millitary control, please if I am wrong correct me and give "reliable source".

I gave Amona example as an Example of property owners being able to evict residents from land not thiers by law, The jewish owners got the land in 1972 by law: "חוק הסדרי משפט ומנהל", before East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel (in 1980), any citizen of Israel could "use" the law to claim land ownership in East Jerusalem, Arab citizens too.

Nahnieli (talk) 20:02, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

1. https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/54/ART1/778/643.html
2. https://jerusaleminstitute.org.il/publications/%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%97-%d7%92%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%97-%d7%94%d7%a2%d7%a8%d7%9b%d7%aa-%d7%9e%d7%a6%d7%91/
3. https://www.nevo.co.il/psika_html/shalom/SH-10-12-52633-273.htm
4. http://peacenow.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/verdict_appeal_Sheikh_Jarrah_100221.pdf

Misplaced Pages is not itself a reliable source but you can also have a look at Israeli land and property laws.Selfstudier (talk) 23:16, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes, you are wrong, as Amona had nothing, literally nothing, to do with the reclamation of property law. That was an unauthorized outpost built on privately owned land in the West Bank. It was not reclaiming property lost during 1948. The two things are not at all related, and your belief that they are is mistaken. nableezy - 01:35, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

ok so ill explain myself better, the owners got the land in 1972, before "Jerusalem law" which annexed Jerusalem by Israeli law. They got it by "חוק הסדרי משפט ומנהל 1970" law. Which gave power to any Israeli citizen, Arab, Jew, and others to claim his land, according to the court verdict, the Residents of the disputed land didnt have papers showing its thier property, and therefore the "Jews" could claim the land which was done in 1972, and yes until now nothing to do with Amona. I read the articles which none of them states that only jews could "use" the law to claim lands, but it says that because East Jerusalem was evicted its Jewish residents after the 1948 war, it was tp thier opinion: law only for Jews to claim the land. It might be true, but still it doesn't mean that only Jews could claim the lands. So to my opinion: "Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned." To my opinion should be changed to: Israel's laws allows Israelis to file claims over land in East Jerusalem which Jordan didnt eminent domain in the time of its rule on the west bank, (although I am not sure if it still possible to claim land there after 1980 Jerusalem Law). And after this an addiation of interpetitions saying the law was destinied for Jews to claim thier land. As for Amona: I added this only to justify the request of the eviction by Israeli law, because I heard claims saying that eviction isnt legal. Nahnieli (talk) 05:20, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

• Extremely inaccurate, and not really supported by sources. The laws do not apply to "Jews" or "Palestinians". There is a law that applies to people who departed Israel to enemy states in 1948, which is mostly Palestinians. Israeli law on the subject treats Jews and Arabs equally, Israeli-Arab citizens can also claim property they owned in East Jerusalem under equal circumstances. The text on Misplaced Pages makes a generalization that is not present in most of the sources it cites. The particular Palestinians involved in the dispute, who left Israel to an enemy state (Jordan), are unable to claim historic property in Israel. The law does not extend to all Palestinians. The sources cited are more specific in language, while the test on Misplaced Pages makes an unfounded generalization. Also Israeli law does not apply in most of the West Bank, it does apply specifically in East Jerusalem which was annexed by Israel.--Geshem Bracha (talk) 08:31, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Read up on the topic. Both of you make vast generalizations ('people who departed Israel to enemy states'. 29,000 in West Jerusalem, to note one case, did not 'depart to enemy states': they were dispersed all over the West Bank and the Middle East as they fled the violence). The scholarly documentation is overwhelming that Israel property laws are rooted in the ethnic privileging of Jews over non-Jews. WP:OR and personal opinions make no dint on that consensus.Nishidani (talk) 13:27, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

One can quite reasonably go even further. From the standpoint of IL, it's moot. As far as the UNSC is concerned, the territory is considered occupied and any and all actions taken by Israel, purported annexation included, to change the character of Jerusalem are of no legal effect. In that sense, Israeli laws, no matter the legal gymnastics involved, are simply inapplicable.Selfstudier (talk) 13:43, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Precision is important. East Jerusalem is not the same as the West Bank, and sources refer to Jerusalem not WB. Also the sources used are opinionated and of low quality here. Free1Soul (talk) 15:36, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Quiet obvious that the arguments is for or against politicizing the laws. I recommend that you first express what the law says ( whithout the political instrumentalisation), and then make the political cases in the dispute about it :).--Rectangular dome (talk) 15:41, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

East Jerusalem is regularly included in the West Bank by the UN and other sources. Yall have brought no sources that back up any part of anything that youve said. Which makes it pointless to engage with. nableezy - 15:46, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

I can talk about me, my remarks isn't about East Jerusalem recognition, rather about what the Israeli law says. Please try to answer directly the question, if not it's pointless :) --Rectangular dome (talk) 16:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

That change is fine though, claims on West Bank property arent covered by this law afaik. This change merits sanctions for falsifying the source though. nableezy - 15:47, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

The cited source says Under Israeli law, Jews who can prove pre-1948 title can claim back their Jerusalem properties. No similar law exists for Palestinians who lost homes in West Jerusalem. Additional sources that make the same point are:

• AP: Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim such lands but bars Palestinians from recovering property they lost in the same war, even if they still reside in areas controlled by Israel.
• NY Times: Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim ownership of land they vacated in 1948, but denies Palestinians the right to reclaim the properties they fled from in the same war.
• CBS News: The settlers say they have a legal right to the land based on an Israeli law that permits Jews to recover property abandoned during the war in 1948. There is no equivalent law for Palestinians, who have been unable to reclaim land they abandoned or were forced to leave during the war.

I can continue to compile a list of sources, but until and unless one of you has something that challenges these I dont really see a point. Just baldly saying its not true and then effectively lying about the source in the article is not however an option that will result in anything other than a request for sanctions if it is repeated. Making up that the sources are opinionated or low quality when it is a Guardian news article cited likewise wont work. nableezy - 16:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes we both read the news. The news aren't writing the law, and i don't recommend law student to learn the law by news online :) News makes generalization and simplification, not Misplaced Pages ( or anything serious ).--Rectangular dome (talk) 16:08, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

ok so ill explain myself better, the owners got the land in 1972, before "Jerusalem Law" which annexed Jerusalem by Israeli law. They got it by "חוק הסדרי משפט ומנהל 1970" law. Which gave power to any Israeli citizen - not matter if its Arab, Jew or others to claim his land in East Jeusalem. according to the court verdict, the Residents of the disputed land didnt have papers showing its thier property, and therefore the land owners of before 1948 could reclaim the land which was done in 1972. I have read the articles which none of them states that only jews could "use" the law to claim lands, also Israeli laws are similiar for any citizen - no matter is race. some articles claim that this law as "made only for Jews" because there were no Jews in East Jerusalem after 1948 war, and as some articles says: they think its clear that the law was made for Jews. even if its true, it still doesn't mean that only Jews could claim the lands.

so I think we should change this:

"Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned."

To something like this:

Israel's laws allows Israeli citizens (arabs, jews, others) to file claims over land in East Jerusalem which Jordan didnt eminent domain in the time of its rule on the west bank.

• And after this an addition of interpetitions saying the law was destinied for Jews to claim thier land can be added.

Saying that only Jews can use the law is absurd, since all Israeli citizens are equal by law. also Israel court respects arabs property ownership in East Jerusalem, even if it was populated by other groups before 1948, the fact is that the residents there didnt have papers showing its thier property, and therefore those who have papers (even if before 1948), could reclaim the land, thats the court verdict and its also justified here: . Nahnieli (talk) 16:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

References

1. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/law/article/692791/
2. https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/BJzZ9umtO
3. https://www.e-vrit.co.il/Product/3925/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%99%D7%97_%D7%92_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%97
4. https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/HJY31rgdu

Again, please read WP:OR. You thinking something is absurd is nice for your blog but has not basis for discussion on Misplaced Pages. The material is reliably sourced and you, nor anybody else, has presented any source that disputes it. Continuing to waste our time is disruptive. Unless you have any source that disputes what our article says this discussion should be closed. Your personal analysis of the laws and what they say mean zero zilch nada here. nableezy - 23:06, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

so just scroll a bit up I gave 4 articles which every one of them disputes the sentence:

"Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned."

all I wrote is based on this articles, and I added that I read the articles that you and others claims to support the senetnce above, but I didnt see in any of them that only jews can file claim over land in west bank and jerusalem.

so i added reliable sources, which saying this: Israel's laws allows Israeli citizens (arabs, jews, others) to file claims over land in East Jerusalem which Jordan didnt eminent domain in the time of its rule on the west bank.

again: all I wrote is based and taken from the articles I mentioned above. 31.210.180.31 (talk) 15:50, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Ive quoted several sources that back the material. Youve made a series of unsupported leaps without ever once quoting a source that actually disputes the material. Absent that I leave the last word to you, but the article will continue to reflect the sources, not what you or somebody else wishes they said. nableezy - 15:54, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

1. Sorry I am new to wikipedia editing, can you give me the qoutes you based this senetence upon? 2. "In the mid-1950s, the Jordanian government settled Arab refugees there. After the Six Day War, the land passed to Israeli rule, Israeli law was applied to it and it was given to the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property. In September 1972, the Israeli Custodian released the land to its owners - the Spanish Community Committee and the 'Knesset of Israel'. " (not to be confused with the Knesset) . Also about the law being only for Jews, I think the authors meant Israel when they said Jew, but anyway: "In the State of Israel, equality was expressed as a general value, if only for inspiration And intention, in basic sources beyond the laws. The House of Representatives and the Court often accepted Inspired by the heritage of Israel, which gives expression to equality as a fundamental value. Thus, for example, Judge Branson found Reference is made to the prohibition of discrimination between members of different religions in the Torah of Israel, which "never distinguished between a particular expression, although it is not complete, is also given in Israeli case law."..." . Nahnieli (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

References

1. https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.739298
2. https://law.haifa.ac.il/images/lawGov/vol5-1/7-zamir.pdf

• I don't know the answer, but in response to some responses above, I think the IP's question is a valid one to ask. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopaedia. By its nature, it goes into more factual depth than your typical news article, and if it's portraying a factually inaccurate story then that should be corrected. On issues like these academic scholarship is preferable, and I think Nishidani compiled a list of some articles earlier (I've yet to read it all, but it's on my list). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:13, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Theres nothing factually inaccurate about it, and scholarly sources likewise say the same thing. See for example Rempel, Terry (1997), "The Significance of Israel's Partial Annexation of East Jerusalem", Middle East Journal, 1 (4), Middle East Institute: 520–534, In the area of personal status, the legal anomalies were addressed primarily by granting exemptions to Palestinian East Jerusalemites from the Absentee's Property Law and the Penal Amendment Law. Article 3 of the Legal and Administrative Matters (Regulations) Law stipulated that "a resident shall not ... be regarded as absentee within the meaning of the Absentee's Property Law of 1950, in respect of property situated in that area." Two things should be noted about this exemption. First, that the exemption was carefully qualified to refer only to property "in that area" which was defined as East Jerusalem. In other words, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who were considered absent under the Absentee's Property Law with regard to their property in 1948, either in West Jerusalem or in other areas inside Israel, were not permitted to reclaim their property. Second, Article 3 stated that residents were not to be "regarded" as absentee: it did not state that residents were 'not' absentee with respect to their property. Thus, while Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem were not considered absentee in relation to the application of Israeli law, they were still absentee by virtue of the extension of Israeli law. This created an ambiguous situation in which the law existed but was not applicable. The government made a similar exemption concerning the "enemy" status of East Jerusalem inhabitants. Article 4 of the Legal and Administrative Matters (Regulations) Law instructed courts and tribunals that a resident of "the area" should not be considered, in civil matters, "an enemy or enemy subject, unless that plea is made by the Attorney General or with his written consent."" nableezy - 13:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

ProcrastinatingReader There are so many books and articles on this, one need just google and read. Ask any Palestinian refugee in Jordan with title to property in the West Bank or Israel what happens, and you would have a voluminous memoir of entrapment in bureaucratic finessing of what is simply a legislative regime drawn up and refined to make such claims, even with some room for legal manoeuvre, almost impossible to obtain recognition. The most outstanding case is West Jerusalem. Whatever the law may state, per Number57, nearly all cases are rejected before they reach court. None of this Kafkian redtape exist for comparable cases involving Jewish claims on property outside of the green line. To the contrary.

Legal proceedings involving the Sheikh Jarrah dispute have dragged on for years. It is assumed that Israel’s Supreme Court will soon decide to evict the Palestinians and give the homes to Jewish claimants. Yet that same court will not hear cases by Palestinian residents who were evicted from their homes in West Jerusalem, in 1948. The Absentees’ Property Law of 1950 deems them “absentees,” even if they live in annexed Eastern Jerusalem, less than a mile away. Raja Shehadeh, Sheikh Jarrah and the Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Violence New Yorker 11May 2021

Shehadeh is a world authority on those laws. The I/P problem is basically, the obvious is there to see, but you have to have a Phd in urban archaeology to dig beneath the pyramids of historic chatter that have buried the facts. Nishidani (talk) 14:21, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

It isnt even something that anybody has brought a source challenging. We shouldnt need to spend the time arguing over something that not one source disputes. You think its wrong? Get a freaking source that says so. Until then no, it is not a valid question, and no, we dont need to endlessly entertain such wastes of time. nableezy - 14:37, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

ok Hold on, I just gave an article stating that the Israeli law is equal either you Jewish or Muslim or Chrisitan, and as I understand from your quotes you just gave, non of them says that only Jews can claim land in each Jerusalem which they owned prior to 1948, But as my articles support: All Israelis can file those claims in East Jerusalem, so I ask to change the word "Jews" to "Israelis", since not all Jews are Israelis and non Israelis cant file those claims, its first wrong statement, and by refering to only Jewish Israelis, is making it an half truth, (since others can file claims in East Jerusalem too).

also: "The 1970 law thus created a deep legal gap between the ability of Jews to return to their hands Their assets in East Jerusalem, compared to the inability of Arabs living in East Jerusalem to return They have properties they owned in the west of the city. Return of the properties in the west of the city to the residents East Jerusalem was not possible, among other things, because the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property sold The property or transferred to the Development Authority under the Functional Property Act of 1950, or the property Was expropriated for public purposes, so that it could not actually be released for the benefit of its Arab owners. Vs This is the authority of the Israeli Custodian General to return assets held by the Custodian Jordanian (according to the Judicial Procedures and Administration Law of 1970) to their original owners, also applies to properties Transferred to private hands." - academic research. it does support what its written that East Jerusalem residents which owned land in 1950 Israel borers can't file claims to thier lands, but its just coincidentally, according to this article. and thats wy I dont think it should be written as the current form, that: "but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned." . to the form I offered above.

addition: Just for accuracy I dont think it should be written "Palestinians" there, but maybe "Arab Israelis" or "Palestinians Israelis", because non Israeli cant claim the land anyway. Nahnieli (talk) 22:35, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

It is not true that all Israelis may file claims, well they may file them but not all of them have any possibility of success. Reliable sources directly related to the topic of this article say that Jewish Israelis may claim property lost in East Jerusalem but Palestinian Arabs may not claim property lost in Israel proper. That is what our article says. You wish to take an article that makes the claim that there is equality under Israeli law (a laughable claim per the human rights organizations that have documented hundreds of laws that discriminate between Jews and non-Jews) and say that it applies to this specific law when you have no source directly doing so. The reliable sources provided explicitly support the material in the article. No reliable source explicitly contradicts it. nableezy - 22:47, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

There were Israeli arabs which filed claims in East Jerusalem and won. Also there is no human rights organization that I know which says that Jews and Others in Israel are not equal by *law*. Also as the qoute that I gave above says that its just coincidnetally, because the arabs lands of before the war were destined for public puroose or expropirated, while some of the East Jerusalem lands were held by the custodian Jordanian, if Jordan had expropirated the area there like it did in some other places, or gave the land residents a deed, they might still owned the land, but niether happend. The law is equal by its basis, you can interpate that some laws were "made for Jews" and you articles those support that, but saying that the law itself Says that only Jews can file claim to the lands is just not true, and if you think it is just qoute to me from a reliable article. Nahnieli (talk) 16:04, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Re there is no human rights organization that I know which says that Jews and Others in Israel are not equal by *law*., please see Adalah's list of discriminatory laws. Re you can interpret, nobody here is interpreting anything. It is not our job to interpret. We are faithfully representing what the reliable sources we cite say. And what they say is that under Israeli law Jews may file claims for property lost in 1948 in East Jerusalem but Palestinians may not in West Jerusalem and the rest of Israel. Not one source has been brought disputing that. A number have been brought directly supporting it. Absent sources that directly dispute what now has 5 solid sources directly supporting there is nothing else to discuss here. I already quoted several such articles. The scholarly one cited above says In other words, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who were considered absent under the Absentee's Property Law with regard to their property in 1948, either in West Jerusalem or in other areas inside Israel, were not permitted to reclaim their property. The Associated Press says Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim such lands but bars Palestinians from recovering property they lost in the same war, even if they still reside in areas controlled by Israel. The NY Times says Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim ownership of land they vacated in 1948, but denies Palestinians the right to reclaim the properties they fled from in the same war. Those are all reliable sources, and not one source has been provided that disputes them. If somebody wants to repeat the nearly vandalism level edit of Geshem Bracha and again replace what has several reliable sources supporting it with something that is flatly untrue they can do that, but the next time it happens there will be a report for falsifying sources brought to AE. I dont plan on endlessly replying to sourceless comments here, if you have sources that directly refute the text then bring them. But your arguments are a. untrue, b. unsourced, and as a result of no consequence. nableezy - 16:28, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

I am not disputing what you gave, I am just saying that for a reader who read this article he would think that ONLY Jews can file claims to land in East Jerusalem, while in fact every Israeli can file the claims in East Jerusalem. so I am basicly asking to change the word "jews" to "Israelis" because writing only Jews makes it an Half-truth or just give me one qoute saying that ONLY jews can file those claims in East Jerusalem, because if articles says that Jews can, it doesn't mean others can't. and now I understand you better, I think that the reason (in law which was supported by the articles both you and I gave), that the Palestinian-Israeli East Jerusalem Residents can't file claims in West Jerusalem (and other parts of Israel), while the other Israelis can file those claims in East Jerusalem, should be mentioned in the same sentence, because as reader I would assume that the law say explicitly that only Palestinians can't claim lands, which is not true.

not related: but about "adalah" document that you gave, there are examples of laws that apply also in many other democratic countries, just "adalha" refering it to discrimanting Arabs citizens, while for some if not most of them, they dont even have examples of such use for such purposes, while many of this laws like NGO “Funding Transparency” Law , are laws that are equal for all, and doesnt even let some authority to interpret them to discriminate. not only that "adalha" as published sometimes false accusation on Israel. Nahnieli (talk) 19:29, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

What you are asking us to change is what the sources directly support. What they say is Jews. And I gave you several quotes. Again, NY Times: Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim ownership of land they vacated in 1948, but denies Palestinians the right to reclaim the properties they fled from in the same war. Jews were not classified as present absentees, any Palestinian who fled their home in 1948 was and is unable to file any claim to recover that property. That is attested to by several reliable sources. You disliking what those sources say is interesting but I feel like this section has reached the end of its useful life. I dont plan on responding again absent actual sources that dispute the article text. nableezy - 19:52, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

You either no understanding me or ignoring what I said, all I said is that Arabs can file to claim land in east Jerusalem too, yes most of the claims there are by Jews, but Arabs can and did file claims in east Jerusalem and even won several times, the reason I am insisting on changing the way its wrote is because people uneducated about the conflict can confuse easily, and thats also ehy I would like the reasons, of ehy the situation is as it is to be mentioned too in shortly. Since we don't come to an agreement, I say that we call a thirth person (which doesn't have favor Palestinian or Israeli side) like ProcrastinatingReader, which commented above and seems netural to me. Nahnieli (talk) 04:22, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

References

1. https://jerusaleminstitute.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PUB_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA.pdf
2. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/operation_defensive_shield_and_the_myth_of_the_jenin_massacre/

User:ProcrastinatingReader, can you give your opinion? Nahnieli (talk) 16:24, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Not my area of expertise, unfortunately. However: I came across a WSJ source yesterday that says In 1970, Israel passed a law allowing anyone to reclaim land that had been confiscated by Jordan during the 1948 war, as long as the land hadn’t been given to new owners. From some further reading, unsurprisingly, it seems a pretty complex subject, and my feeling is that news articles focusing on effects (such as the recent ones re this dispute) aren't properly researching and describing the effects of the law, naturally it isn't the point of the articles. I'd have thought we should look for academic sources that discuss the relevant laws and their application. There's some interesting writing here on the issue - although it's from an NGO. There's also these two pieces which look relevant at a skim and of a high quality: , (American Journal of International Law and The Middle East Journal respectively). I don't know if the current revision of the article is an accurate portrayal of either the facts or the sources; it could be, but I wouldn't bet on it. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:35, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

That NGO report captures the essence of the situation. It is correct as far as it goes, to say the law (APL) does not distinguish but that is to ignore the context, intent as well as the definition of absentee. That is the reason it says "Considering the purposes of the APL and the historical context in which it was enacted, it is obvious that there was no real intention of applying it to Jewish property." and no one seriously pretends otherwise these days. You can of course try to argue that the NGO is somehow misrepresenting the position, good luck with that argument.Selfstudier (talk) 19:01, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I haven't read the full NGO source, but even if one assumes NGOs are RS (debatable, really, but understandably under discussion), they should never take priority over WP:SCHOLARSHIP. Since scholarship exists here, that should take precedence. Certainly, the best of the 3 sources I linked is the American Journal of International Law scholarship. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:14, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

A review of that article I reference suggests that the law does not discriminate based on religion. It does discriminate based on Israeli citizenship, and possibly does not class residents of East Jerusalem as eligible (unclear), but the distinction is based on that status and not on the religion of the claimant. As it applies to East Jerusalem, anyway. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:58, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

You misunderstand what the WSJ source is talking about. It is discussing property seized by Jordan, meaning in territory Jordan controlled (East Jerusalem). It is discussing the 1970 East Jerusalem Law that transferred property from the Jordanian Custodian of Absentee Property to an Israeli one. The property that Palestinians had fled from, willingly or otherwise, in Israel however was covered by the Absentee Property Law of 1950. Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem were not dispossessed by the Jordanians, so there are not many (any?) claims from Palestinians to recover property in East Jerusalem. They are however barred from reclaiming territory lost in 1948 (in Israel proper), which is what the other sources all say (and why you continue to ignore them remains a mystery). I actually quoted from the Middle East Journal source up above, what it says is In other words, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who were considered absent under the Absentee's Property Law with regard to their property in 1948, either in West Jerusalem or in other areas inside Israel, were not permitted to reclaim their property. nableezy - 20:45, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Let's take a step backwards. The dispute here is over "Israel's laws allow Jews to file claims over land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948, but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned" right, and whether the ability to file claims is limited to Jews? So, I'm saying that the American Journal of International Law source confirms that the Israeli law, as applied, allows Israelis owners to reclaim land in East Jerusalem. It doesn't appear to be about whether they're Jewish or not.

I agree with you that, per the sources I've read as well, Palestinians are not able to claim land they lost in 1948. But that does not seem to be the thing under dispute here? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:00, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Well West Bank was wrong afaik and has been removed, as Israel has never applied its laws to the West Bank excepting East Jerusalem (and the settlements for Israeli citizens but that is another matter). Yes, Israeli citizens, inclusive of Arab citizens, who lost territory in East Jerusalem but stayed in Israel proper and were not classified as "absentee" by the Absentee Property Law may file claims. Yes, the law does not distinguish based on ethnicity. However, the Absentee Property Law effectively does, and would you care to hazard a guess as to the number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem who fled the Arab held sector of the city in 1948 for Israel proper? Because that would be the only class of Arab citizen of Israel that would qualify, while all Jewish citizens of Israel would qualify. Like I wrote initially, distinction without a difference, which is why these sources all say that the ability to reclaim property is limited to Jews and not Israelis. Does the letter of the law say only Jews? No, as far as I know. Is that its effect? Yes. The main point the sources are making, and which seems to be lost here, is that the Palestinian families in these homes are being forced out of these homes without being allowed the same right to reclaim the homes they were forced out of in Israel proper, sometimes in West Jerusalem. nableezy - 21:30, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

And some additional sources:

• Seidemann, Daniel (2016), "East Jerusalem: The Myth of Benign Occupation Disintegrates", Journal of Palestine Studies, 45 (2): 6, Palestinian property rights in East Jerusalem are challenged by Israel's Absentee Property Law, according to which property owned by a person who has been in "enemy territory" at any time since 1947 is absentee property that, automatically, belongs to the State of Israel. Under the terms of the 1950 law, enemy territory includes the West Bank (the occupied territory was in the hands of Jordan, then an enemy state). Right-wing settler organizations have used this and other laws to great effect to take over properties in Silwan and the Old City of Jerusalem. When the government attempted to apply the law more systematically in East Jerusalem, legal challenges ensued. Recently, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled (among other things) that while the Absentee Property Law applies to East Jerusalem, it should be applied only "in extremely rare situations" with respect to properties the owners of which reside in the West Bank—and only then with the approval of the Attorney General.

  Palestinian property rights in East Jerusalem are also challenged by Israeli legislation passed in 1970 that allows Israelis who owned property in East Jerusalem prior to 1948 to recover that property from its current occupants or tenants. This legislation was the vehicle by which settlement enclaves were established in Ras al-Amud and Shaykh Jarrah, as well as in parts of Silwan and the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Importantly, Palestinians who owned property in West Jerusalem or elsewhere in Israel prior to the 1948 war enjoy no similar right of recovery.

• Jadallah, Dina (2014-01-15). "Colonialist Construction in the Urban Space of Jerusalem". The Middle East Journal. 68 (1). The Middle East Journal: 77–98. doi:10.3751/68.1.14. ISSN 0026-3141. One place where there was persistent pushback is the Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood. There, the large grassroots Solidarity Movement began with weekly Friday protests that were sparked by the forced eviction in 2009 of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem. The families are all former refugees who escaped their homes on the other side of the Green Line during the 1948 War. Following their displacement, they obtained the right to build on vacant land in Shaykh Jarrah from the Jordanian authorities that controlled East Jerusalem at the time. However, after the Israeli occupation in 1967, Jewish organizations claimed ownership by virtue of Ottoman deeds and prior Jewish ownership. The authenticity and applicability of these deeds have since been challenged in court. Meanwhile, Israel's Absentees' Property Law bars Palestinians from any ownership rights over their pre- 1948 properties. While Israeli authorities recognize pre- 1948 deeds belonging to Jewish citizens, there is no equivalent recognition of Palestinian property rights. Therefore, evicted residents of Shaykh Jarrah cannot return to their former homes in West Jerusalem because property (and other) rights are contingent upon Jewish identity.

The material in the article is well sourced and accurate. nableezy - 20:57, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

And all this is only at the level of Israeli law in any case. All these legal antics are the result of one illegality piled atop another, commencing with the 67 application of Israeli law (sort of) in the old Eastern Jerusalem and a part of the West Bank. All such laws are of no legal effect per UNSC resolutions.Selfstudier (talk) 21:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Ive added the Colonialist Construction in the Urban Space of Jerusalem source and quote and added "proper" to in Israel to clarify that it is not referring to East Jerusalem for the second part of that sentence. nableezy - 21:34, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

And some more sources:

• Cook, Stephen A. "How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence". Council on Foreign Relations. Israeli authorities emphasize that the situation in Sheikh Jarrah is a private real-estate dispute. That is accurate, but it only explains part of the story. Pro-Israel organizations have sought to change the demographics of East Jerusalem—which is predominantly Arab—for many years, taking their cues from successive Israeli governments that emphasized Israel's right to build within its own capital. Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim property that they or their families owned in Jerusalem prior to the division of the city after Israel's establishment in 1948, provided that they can prove ownership of the land. For their part, Palestinians cannot claim rights to property they once owned in Jerusalem or other parts of Israel.

• Rempel, Terry; Prettitore, Paul (2010). "Restitution and compensation for Palestinian refugees and displaced persons: Principles, practical considerations, and compliance". In Akram, Susan; Dumper, M.; Lynk, Michael; Scobbie, Iain (eds.). International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-85097-4. This is perhaps best illustrated in the Palestinian case by the legal regime that Israel created to seize, expropriate, transfer, and then secure Palestinian refugee (and nonrefugee) property in a "land reservoir" as the inalienable property of the Jewish people. Aharon Tsizling, Israel's first Minister of Agriculture, for example, emphasized in relation to the confiscation of refugee agricultural lands after the first Israeli–Arab war in 1948 that it was "important in the international arena and before the world community that what is happening appears legal." After the 1967 Israel–Arab war, Israel adopted legal and administrative measures to facilitate the restitution of Jewish-owned properties in the eastern areas of Jerusalem that had been under Jordanian administration between 1948 and 1967 while preventing Palestinians from recovering property in western Jerusalem.

  Footnote 170 reads: Section 3 of the law limited the right of Palestinians to repossess absentee property to eastern Jerusalem. Also the italics and "emphasis added" is in the source, the source is adding that emphasis not me.

nableezy - 22:15, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I haven't checked those sources yet but if we assume they are HQRS and the quotations are representative of the source, then I'd say what we have here is an issue of the sources being in dispute. WP:ASSERT and WP:BALANCE probably then applies. We should find a way to word the disagreement between the sources, identifying clearly on which part they disagree. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:25, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Sidenote, a quotation of the NGO source in the article says This property has been transferred, in accordance with the APL, to the Custodian of Absentee Property, who in turn sold it to the Development Authority, which, in many cases, then transferred the property to Jewish Israelis. The general rule – according to the APL and court rulings – is that this property should not be returned to its previous owners. The source I mention above says: The law authorizes the custodian to transfer the absentees' lands to the "Development Authority," which is registered in the land registry as the owner of the property. Under the law, the Development Authority may not sell the property or transfer the title thereto to any other person. The land may then be used by way of long-term lease. Probs worth clarifying in article. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Which source disagrees with what the article currently says? Jews may file claims in East Jerusalem. Palestinians may not in Israel proper. Which part of that is in dispute? That it is not exclusively (legally) Jews who may file claims in East Jerusalem, even if it (practically) really is? Well, the article does not say only Jews. There is a disparity in the treatment of Jewish claims in East Jerusalem and Palestinian claims in Israel proper, which is what both the sources and article describe. No need to assume anything, one is available on JSTOR the other on Google Books, and both meet WP:SCHOLARSHIP though apparently now users can dismiss such HQRS when it suits their politics in other articles in the topic area so who knows what RSN might say. nableezy - 23:04, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Just want to clarify something. You always say Jews and Palestinians, but Jews are not the "opposite" of Palestinians. It's either Jews and Arabs or Palestinians and Israeli Citizens. By what nableezy says, the law allows only Jews to request it, so the reason that Palestinians are not able to "qualify" is not because they are Palestinians, it's because they are arabs, so if you are correct, the article should say "but reject Arab claims over...", but we need to make sure that it's true, and that the law really does prevent from Israeli arabs from using this law to claim their property. ProcrastinatingReader says that the law takes into account the citizenship and not the religion, so it should be changed to "Israel's laws allow Israeli citizens to file claims". In any way, whichever is true, the text should be fixed, because Jews refers to religion and Palestinian to a citizenship. 93.173.38.160 (talk) 00:53, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

It is specifically Palestinian Arabs. I never said the two are opposites. Palestinian citizens or residents of Israel or those in East Jerusalem are barred from making claims in Israel proper. Jewish Israelis however may make claims in East Jerusalem. Both parts are true, and that specific distinction is remarked upon by several sources. The article as it stands is accurate. I see no reason to change it given the several reliable, including scholarly, sources that directly support it. Finally, it is not me who keeps saying Jewish and Palestinian in the distinction, it is the sources. nableezy - 02:46, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Well, I'm pretty confused here I admit. You admit that this description is inaccurate, factually. We have high quality scholarship giving the full description. But you wish to keep it out because some sources - apparently usually news sources but some scholarship too - use the word "Jew" instead. But the two aren't interchangeable. It doesn't say "only Jews" but it certainly gives that impression. Admittedly I've spent too much time on this already but I just think it's a bit bizarre of an approach. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 08:56, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Removing opinion

User:Free1Soul, having just scaled 500+ edits, has removed Nicholas Kristof's piece in the New York Times because it is an opinion piece. Obviously the editor hasn't read or rather (hmmm) has ignored policy in this regard which does not underwrite the removal on sight of articles expressing an opinion. The views of informed political journalists who follow a topic area, and writing in a mainstream journal, are included everywhere here.Nishidani (talk) 15:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

it is nonsense to mix journalists opinions with serious matters. There is many opinions for or against it, you pick and choose :) --Rectangular dome (talk) 16:11, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

@Free1Soul: Do you have a valid reason for removal?(other than "I don't like it").Selfstudier (talk) 16:13, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

The policy you cite, WP:RSOPINION, spells out that opinions may be used for opinion, but not for statements asserted as facts. This opinion was used to assert facts and this is wrong. Free1Soul (talk) 16:54, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

The opinion was attributed to Nicholas Kristof?Selfstudier (talk) 17:16, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Read the text it was citing. It was used for fact, not opinion. And no attribution. Free1Soul (talk) 17:23, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

So instead of a pop up ref with attribution (a perfectly normal practice), you would prefer the popup content to be all spelled out completely intext?Selfstudier (talk) 17:26, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Opinions should not be used for factual assertions. No reason to use this opinion. Free1Soul (talk) 17:28, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

It was attributed. What does "no reason to use this opinion" mean? Is that a different objection?Selfstudier (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

No. The text contained no attributon to Kristoff. It did not state this was Kristoff's opinion. It is just an opinion, one of many. Free1Soul (talk) 17:35, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

If I hover my mouse over the ref you deleted, this is what it says:

"Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times to argue that American taxpayers are subsidizing the bombing of Palestinians, described the 'land grab' at Sheikh Jarrah as part of a pattern of discrimination which, while disagreeing, he notes has been recently likened by both Human Rights Watch and B'tselem to apartheid. Nicholas Kristof, 'What Your Taxes Are Paying For in Israel,' New York Times 13 May 2021."

aka attribution.Selfstudier (talk) 17:39, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

I don't think we should use op-eds it add add nothing and also WP:UNDUE here --Shrike (talk) 18:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

All the above discussion shows that the erasing editor did not understand the policy he cited in his edit summary, and persists in saying the quote was without attribution when the note contained the required attribution. Whatever one thinks one way or another, one should have raised this on the talk page before using a misleading es. It is not his opinion that Human Rights Watch and B'tselem have recently likened Israel's practices to apartheid. That is a fact that can be independently corroborated by reading both those sources.Nishidani (talk) 20:21, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 24 May 2021

It has been proposed in this section that Sheikh Jarrah controversy be renamed and moved to Evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

Sheikh Jarrah property dispute → Evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah – The current title is on the extreme end of the POV spectrum, and this is attested to by several reliable sources. Among them:

• Euronews: One of the sparks that lit the fuse of the latest conflict came from a small neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, where Israeli settlers are working to evict Palestinian families. What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah has been characterised by the settlers and their supporters as a mere property dispute.
• Raja Shehadeh in The New Yorker: Israel argues that the situation in Sheikh Jarrah is merely a straightforward property dispute. In fact, what it demonstrates, above all, is the city’s endemic discrimination.
• The Scotsman: The 23-year-olds live and work near the embattled Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, which is the focus of an attempt to remove Palestinian families from their homes, in what the Israeli government terms a “property dispute”.

The other side of that POV spectrum calls this "property dispute" "ethnic cleansing". But non-partisan sources have generally characterized the events as expulsions or evictions. Expulsions is my preference given the usage by third-party organizations such as the United Nations, but that was rejected above. Regardless, "evictions" is a marked improvement over characterizing what the UN and human rights organizations have called a potential war crime in to some "property dispute". Sources that support "evictions" include:

• AP: She and her husband, empty nesters with grown children of their own, may have to leave it all behind on Aug. 1. That’s when Israel is set to forcibly evict them following a decades-long legal battle waged by ideological Jewish settlers against them and their neighbors.
• CBS News: One of the factors that led to the current violence in Israel and Gaza is the possible eviction of 13 Palestinian families from the Skeikh Jarrah neighborhood in the disputed territory of east Jerusalem.
• NY Times: The effort to evict six Arab families from a contested neighborhood has drawn attention to the Israeli effort to remove Palestinians from parts of East Jerusalem and led to protests.
• Times of Israel: The Supreme Court, amid daily violent clashes in East Jerusalem, has canceled a hearing scheduled for Monday that could have determined whether four Palestinian families in the city’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood will be evicted.

And historically:

• Lawyers without Borders report on housing rights in Sheikh Jarrah: has a section on "the Sheikh Jarrah evictions"

I think evictions is, like property dispute, a bit of propaganda in that it downplays a matter of international law in an occupied territory to some mere civil case to be settled by municipal authorities, but property disputes is on a whole other level in terms of its disingenuousness. Finally, the current title, besides being a blatant violation of WP:POVNAME, fails WP:COMMONNAME. "sheikh jarrah" "property dispute" returns 1140 google news results. "Sheikh jarrah" "evictions" returns 47,400. nableezy - 14:01, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Oppose But no evictions has taken place per your own sources. The current title is descriptive and WP:NPOV --Shrike (talk) 14:17, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

As in the prior move request, this is not something that is limited to the last two weeks. You have already been shown that numerous evictions have indeed taken place. Your vote also disregards that the current title is, per several reliable sources, POV, specifically the POV of the settlers, not "NPOV" as you assert without evidence. nableezy - 14:48, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Support I would support evictions provided that the international law situation be adequately covered in the article body which, boiled down to essentials, would add the adjective "forced" (as in "forced displacement"). Per the sources, virtually no-one refers to this situation as a real estate/property dispute with the exception of the Israeli government. Classing it as such is not NPOV, not at all.Selfstudier (talk) 15:06, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Oppose, non-neutral advocacy. Also closing your own RM when it goes against you and immediately opening a new RM with the same arguements is diaruptive. Free1Soul (talk) 15:20, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Um no, accepting that a request will not gain consensus and proposing a new one is very much not disruptive. If you feel it is, WP:AE is thataway. But maybe try providing evidence for your claim, per WP:NOTAVOTE. Would love to see how somebody can call "evictions" non-neutral or advocacy while pushing for "property dispute", which per several reliable sources is actual non-neutral advocacy on behalf of a war crime. nableezy - 15:24, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

This is the third RM in so many days. Give it a rest, everyone is tired of these long long posts. Free1Soul (talk) 15:43, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Whats your point? This article has a title that a number of reliable sources say is POV. You liking that POV does not make my efforts to correct the issue of Misplaced Pages being used to advance the POV of downplaying a war crime to a "property dispute" disruptive. Maybe address the fact that the current title is, per several reliable sources, explicitly on the extreme end of the POV spectrum? nableezy - 15:47, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Comment: Evictions is better than the current title, but it's still inaccurate and weaselly language intended to hide the true nature. "Eviction" implies the people living there a) don't own the property and b) did something wrong to prompt eviction (failing to pay rent, destruction of property, etc). A more accurate title would be Forced removal of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. An eviction is a specific type of forced removal, but in this case eviction doesn't apply so we should use the more general term. --eduardog3000 (talk) 16:06, 24 May 2021 (UTC)Editor can't comment in AFD as he didn't reached yet 500 edits --Shrike (talk) 16:29, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. The OP claims the current title is NPOV but then proposes one which paints a completely different picture. I also echo the words by Free1Soul that the OP shouldn't have closed his own RM and opened one right away and should have let it run its course. --Gonnym (talk) 16:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
• Comment This letter signed by dozens of lawyers and scholars from all over the globe, requests the ICC prosecutor to investigate the Sheikh Jarrar case. Supporting what many sources describe as being the view of the Israeli government in the face of all the evidence is not a sustainable position.Selfstudier (talk) 17:12, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

  Posting advocacy letter by anti-Israeli organization doesn't prove anything --Shrike (talk) Shrike (talk) 17:43, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose fails WP:CRITERIA. The scope of the article, as can be seen in the current revision of Special:Permalink/1024896433, is a property dispute along with its historical background, legal history, positions and status of the land in international and Israeli law. Evictions constitute one section of the 6 section (+2 subsections) article. Accordingly, the proposed title is not an accurate title for this page, and fails WP:PRECISE. I hope the conclusion of this RM is respected, and we do not have to see a 4th... ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

There's been one real move request prior to this. How about we not start a new obviously false narrative about the history of this, as I closed the other per SNOW and your objection that eviction is more common? nableezy - 17:37, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

I am beginning to wonder if the scope of this article should be widened so as to include all of the other related displacements in East Jerusalem, Silwan being perhaps the most notable of these. In this way, it can then be made absolutely clear just what is actually going on, the number of available sources as evidence for it rising exponentially.Selfstudier (talk) 17:51, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. Nobody was evicted so far. Per WP:CRYSTALBALL we should not name the article after an event that may not take place. Even if it does take place, eviction would be a small part of a much larger dispute. “WarKosign” 22:18, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

WarKosign many families have been evicted over the years, please read Sheikh Jarrah property dispute#Evictions. And the entire dispute is about the evictions. What else is there to the dispute besides the evictions?VR _talk 03:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

I stand corrected, I was focused only on the current events. Still, the article is about more than just the eviction, potential (and past) evictions are a result of the ongoing property dispute which is the subject of the article. It's easily evident from the table of content of the article. “WarKosign” 06:28, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

"Sheikh Jarrah evictions" gets 65,300 hits in Google, while "Sheikh Jarrah property dispute"/"Sheikh Jarrah real estate dispute" manage a whole 70 between the pair of them.Selfstudier (talk) 15:29, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Well, WP:HITS is not a reliable metric, but neither can be said to be the common name. See trends. Historically both are low usage, there was a spike in one aspect of this article's scope (the evictions part) due to news coverage, but it's dying down again too back to equilibrium. With the entire scope of this article, there is no particular frequent label in RS usage. (ngrams results show even less than trends). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

And we may add another 26,800 if we do "East Jerusalem evictions".Selfstudier (talk) 15:57, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

One can be said to be considerably more common, and one has reliable sources saying is a POV of an involved party, making it a POVTITLE which means it needs to be the common name to be used as our title. nableezy - 18:21, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

This is not how the WP:Article titles policy works. There are five pieces of WP:CRITERIA to decide the title of a page. Your basis for the move is that a name is common, except this page is not titled under WP:NPOVNAME it's titled under WP:NDESC. Your proposal doesn't address the former because that's not the topic of the article. So what you've shown is that recent news reporting on breaking news events describes a specific event under a common name - a fact not under dispute (at least from me). What it overlooks is that those events are not the defining topic of this article. The article is titled as a neutral descriptor for the broad scope of the topics it covers. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:30, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

You must be referring to the largest section in the article, the one titled "Evictions"? Selfstudier (talk) 18:33, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes. It's the largest but it's still only about 33% of the article's readable prose in word count. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:39, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

WP:POVTITLE provides for using a non-neutral title when the name of the article is derived from reliable sources, when it is the common name. If an article has a non-neutral name then that name should be the most common way of referring to the subject. "Property dispute" you admit above is not a common name. It says to use neutral descriptive titles though, and this is a descriptive title. Per several reliable sources, "property dispute" is a non-neutral way of referring to this subject. You saying that this is a neutral descriptor is nice as a personal opinion, but it is reliably sourced that "property dispute" is indeed a non-neutral title, representing the POV of right wing Israeli settlers. International rights organizations refer to this "property dispute" as a "war crime". Downplaying a "war crime" in to a "property dispute" is very much not a "neutral descriptor". Again, that is not my personal opinion. That is the informed view of several reliable sources. Ive indeed demonstrated that this is not titled at a neutral description. The reply to that has been to baldly assert that it is, but as in all things on Misplaced Pages my sources trump your bald assertions. Also, please dont claim that my basis is purely commonality. That was the last, and the most minor, of the points raised in the move request. It is more than a little annoying to have my argument distorted so cavalierly. nableezy - 19:12, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

• Support this title as "evictions" seems like a very neutral way of describing what's going on.VR _talk 03:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Support. It simply cannot be 'property dispute' for that, being the default Israeli viewpoint, sides with one party at the expense of another, egregiously violating WP:NPOV. Raja Shehadeh is a distinguished Palestinian lawyer and legal authority on land laws in the West Bank and in international law, whose works are widely cited in the academic literature. He has published at least two monographs on the topic, and if he challenges that term as POV. Eviction is the standard legal term for 'the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. . . the term eviction is the most commonly used in communications between the landlord and tenant.' In this case, the Jewish company (run by a settler fellow who specializes in stealth purchases of West Bank followed by the eviction of the residents on those properties, repeatedly buys and evicts, using Israel's laws regarding property and the rights of their owners.Nishidani (talk) 13:34, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose: The current title is factually accurate and neutral--this is indeed a dispute over property. It also better covers the scope of the article. --Albany NY (talk) 04:36, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

  Tell Blinken he doesn't understand it Antony Blinken "warns Israeli leaders evicting Palestinians from East Jerusalem could spark war" Selfstudier (talk) 12:27, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose: The encyclopedic value of the article in that it describes the whole property dispute. Actual and/or future evictions are only one of the outcomes of this dispute. The point of the article is to objectively describe the whole legal situation, as well as its impact. Even as an outcome of the situations, evictions are not covering the whole thing. 173.224.161.129 (talk) 22:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)ARBPIA

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