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Human Rights

Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Juan Cole 02/13/2014

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(Via AFP)

Israel to build high rise in annexed E.Jerusalem area: NGO (via AFP)

Jerusalem’s planning committee moved forwards on Wednesday with plans to build a nine-storey Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighbourhood near the Old City. Plans for the new tower block, to be built in the Sheikh Jarrah…

 

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Filed Under: Human Rights, Israel/ Palestine, Palestine

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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