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Is Jerusalem Being “Judaized”?

March 1, 2003 | Justus Reid Weiner

The Palestinian leadership, various non-governmental organizations and even foreign governments frequently confront the municipality of Jerusalem (as well as Israel's national government) over its purported policy of "Judaizing" Jerusalem. The allegation leveled is that an unacknowledged policy is in place to change the holy city's demographic balance to the detriment of the Arabs. There is, however, no clear historical evidence to support these claims. Moreover, although the Jewish

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS: JERUSALEM’S ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN THE ERA OF STATE-BUILDING

April 30, 2001 | Alek Epstein

This essay focuses on a comparative analysis of the contribution of Jerusalem's academic community to the emergence of a civil society during the formative years of Israeli state-building. Although many of the prominent scholars were not only active participants in the Zionist movement, but after their emigration to Palestine became personally dependent on the political success of the Zionist project, their loyalty to the political leadership of the Yishuv and the state was limited by their sense of truth and justice. In what was, at the time, a very etatist society, Israeli scholars maintained the principles of political freedom, and contributed a great deal to the advancement of the ideals of civil rights (especially with respect to recognition of the personal and collective rights of the Arab minority), and to the development of a critically-oriented public)

JERUSALEM IN HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY

April 30, 2001

The July 2000 Camp David Summit was clearly a diplomatic failure, that resulted largely, though not exclusively, from the in surmountable gap between Israel and the PLO over the issue of Jerusalem. The Palestinian violence imposed on Israel by the PLO, in the summit's aftermath, not only undermined the future of any meaningful peace negotiations, but also threatened the stability of the entire Middle East region. The Camp David breakdown, in short, was not cost-free. I

Jerusalem in International Diplomacy: The 2000 Camp David Summit, the Clinton Plan, and Their Aftermath

February 1, 2001 | Amb. Dore Gold

The Importance of Terminology for a Solution to the Jerusalem Question

April 15, 1998

Religious Zionists in Jerusalem

January 1, 1998 | Daniel J. Elazar

Haredi-Secular Conflict in Jerusalem

December 15, 1996

Israel’s Position on Jerusalem and International Norms for the Holy Places

September 16, 1996

Religious Values and Political Expediency – Australia and the Question of Jerusalem: 1947-1950

October 30, 1994

The Jerusalem Jewish Community, Ottoman Authorities, And Arab Population In The Second Half of The Eighteenth Century: A Chapter Of Local History

October 15, 1994 | Jacob Barnai

Peace, Beauty and Intifada: An American Jewish Political Scientist Returns to Jerusalem

July 16, 1989

The Book of Joshua as a Political Classic

April 15, 1989 | Daniel J. Elazar

Project Renewal: Drawing Sweet from Bitter

February 23, 1981 | Daniel J. Elazar