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Who: Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
X: @RepChuyGarcia
When: January 2025
What: Juan Soliz
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The Threat of Mass Palestinian Displacement in East Jerusalem
Since the beginning of 2020, the Israeli courts authorized the evictions of 36 Palestinian families, totaling 165 individuals, dozens of them children, from their homes in Batan al-Hawa, Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah in favor of settlers. Located within the Old City environs, the most politically contested and religiously sensitive area in Jerusalem, these two neighborhoods are under concerted and heightened pressure from state-backed settler groups. More than 100 families are in various stages of proceedings in eviction lawsuits filed against them by settler organizations.
More than 1000 people are at risk of becoming homeless with no compensation nor alternative housing and an obligation to cover exorbitant legal fees. This unprecedented threat of mass displacement would cause a humanitarian disaster for the families, as well as carry far-reaching political ramifications on the prospect of peace and the stability of Jerusalem.
What is happening in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah?
Dozens of Palestinians are facing imminent dispossession from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in what they say is a move to force them out and replace it entirely with a Jewish settlement. The court rulings are a culmination of a decades-long struggle for these Palestinians to stay in their homes. In 1972, several Jewish settler organisations filed a lawsuit against the Palestinian families living in Sheikh Jarrah, alleging the land originally belonged to Jews.
Sign now to call on the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense: Demand an end to Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem
Who: Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
X: @RepChuyGarcia
When: February 2025
What: We cannot normalize cruelty
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Who: Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
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When: March 2025
What: Las Mamas de Back of the Yards
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Who: Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
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When: March 2025
What: Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Inc.
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Who: Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Illinois)
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When: April 2025
What: 10 Years of Beyond Legal Aid
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