(Kohelet Policy Forum) Prof. Avi Bell - The current dispute in Sheikh Jarrah involves several properties with tenants whose leases have expired, and in a few cases squatters with no tenancy rights at all, against owner-landlords who have successfully won court orders evicting the squatters and overstaying tenants. Critics claim that the Israeli government should (or even that international law requires the Israeli government to) deny the owners their property rights, but these claims are not based on any credible legal argument. Since the owners are Jews while the squatters are Arabs, the critics demand that Israel discriminate against the owners due to their Jewish ethnicity. It's obvious that the critics would pay no notice if the owners were Palestinian and the squatters were Palestinian or Jewish.
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