‘The Real Jaffa’ by Susan Loewental Lourenco (of MachsomWatch)

The past is always present in Jaffa; properties from which Jaffaites fled in 1948 were transferred first to a ‘custodian’, then to government housing companies. Since then, these areas (among the poorest in Tel Aviv-Jaffa) have experienced soaring property prices, the housing companies are keen to evict the remaining Palestinian tenants. But the newly aware younger generation of Jaffa social activists (Arabs and Jews) has been fighting, legally, to stop the presently scheduled evictions and demolitions of 497 homes.

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