Sheikh Jarrah Residents Reject High Court Compromise

By JPost
Posted on 11/02/21 | News Source: JPost

The four Palestinian families in Sheik Jarrah who have been under threat of evacuation rejected on Tuesday the High Court of Justice compromise that would allow them to remain in their homes for 15 years as protected tenants, so long as they pay a small monthly rent to the Nahalat Shimon Company.

"We rejected the "proposal" by the "Israeli Supreme Court," which would have rendered us 'protected tenants at the mercy of the settler organizations," the families said in a statement.

"We stand firm in our refusal to compromise on our rights despite the lack of institutional guarantees that would protect our presence as Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem," they said.

"The Israeli judiciary is circumventing its duty to adjudicate the case and is forcing us instead to choose between our own dispossession or submitting to an oppressive agreement. Naturally, we refuse to commit someone else's crimes."

"Such 'compromises' create the illusion of the ball in our court, fabricating a framing in which we reject a 'generous deal,' in a situation where our dispossession would still be imminent and our homes would still be regarded as someone else's. Such 'deals' distract from the crime at hand: ethnic cleansing perpetrated by a settler-colonial judiciary and its settlers."