The erasure of Palestinian life has been ongoing since the start of the Nakba in 1948. This erasure is material — massacre-propelled ethnic cleansing — but it is also narrative.

Young Palestinians are growing up to find themselves inevitable targets of Israeli Apartheid and it is this new generation of Palestinians that is leading the struggle for Sheikh Jarrah. They are young, uncompromising, and, thanks to social media, better connected than ever before.

Hundreds of Palestinians were injured and dozens were hospitalized on Friday night across the city of Jerusalem, as Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and continued to crackdown on protests against the imminent evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. The violence that erupted on Friday was the culmination of weeks of rising tensions in the city and across the occupied Palestinian territory.

Recent racist anti-Palestinian riots in Jerusalem show that settler-colonial violence is fundamental to Israeli society.

Palestinians in Jerusalem are reeling from a night of racist, anti-Arab violence that left over a hundred Palestinians wounded and dozens detained, following an ultra-right wing Israeli demonstration in the city during which Jewish mobs chanted “death to Arabs.”

Shahd Abusalama’s grandmother was close in age to Prince Philip who died last week, prompting the author to ponder how both Philip and her sitti were from a generation that lived through the end of Britain’s imperial empire, but from strikingly different vantage points.

Archbishop Atallah Hanna’s Easter Sunday sermon: “We pray to God that the whole world will come together to fight the pandemic and then continue to be united in facing all the other pandemics in our universe—especially racism, hatred, injustice, occupation, oppression, and degradation of human dignity.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN the Biden administration embraces Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and refuses to commit to the idea of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.

Announcing construction on a key Jerusalem settlement 5 hours before inauguration, utterly foreclosing the possibility of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu sought an “altercation” with Joe Biden, says Jerusalem watcher Daniel Seidemann. And who won? Biden has said nothing.

There are 700,000 Israeli settlers and the number is growing for a simple reason, this is the Zionist process that settled the original Israeli state in 1948: move more Jews on to the land, and push Palestinians aside.