Sleiman Jad
By Sleiman Jad
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Fast Forward Is Spiralling Crime Turning Arab Israeli Towns Into No-Go Areas?
On the rundown streets of Umm al-Fahm, an Israeli-Arab city of 50,000, locals in smoky cafes are reluctant to speak. Violent crime at the hands of drug gangs is rife here. Reprisals are common. Israeli Jews rarely set foot in the city. “The gangs are in control,” said a man who refused to give his…
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Fast Forward Israel Tightens Noose Around Palestinian Hebron After Terror Killings
Israel has ramped up security in the occupied West Bank since a Palestinian killed a 13-year-old Jewish girl in a settlement last week, deploying more troops and setting up checkpoints near the city of Hebron. Attention is on Bani Na’im, a town to the east where the girl’s killer, a 19-year-old who stabbed her as…
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Fast Forward East Jerusalem Soccer Field Tells Story of City Divided
It is dry, grey and uneven, but to the boys of Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood clinging to a hill behind Jerusalem’s Old City, their pint-sized football pitch, with its cracked surface and simple goalposts, was a precious refuge. Then the cracks began to widen. Two months ago, the football coach and residents decided to close…
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