{"id":3395,"date":"2026-06-02T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:15:33","slug":"statement-by-the-nyc-chapter-of-jewish-voice-for-peace-on-the-illegal-sale-of-palestinian-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the NYC chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace on the illegal sale of Palestinian land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cTonight, the municipality of Jerusalem and the Israeli Building Center are hosting a discriminatory event in which they plan to sell stolen Palestinian land, open to Jews only. This event is illegal under international law and has no place in New York City. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are being expelled from their homes through a coordinated campaign of state policy and settler violence. In East Jerusalem, families are being harassed and attacked while the developers hosting this event build <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/3\/9f18f2bfe788a6c47aedebe06829758c78e68fdb5555025bfcbe6e3052800969?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">luxury developments<\/a> available to Jews only. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe municipality of Jerusalem is directly involved in imposing and administering discriminatory apartheid policies, and should not be hosted anywhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Jewish New Yorkers, we condemn the sale of stolen Palestinian land and we condemn racist housing practices that discriminate based on race, religion, and national origin. <strong>New Yorkers know the importance of fair housing practices and reject these racist events.<\/strong> We, along with Palestinian New Yorkers, know that apartheid practices have no place in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background <\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><strong>Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Jerusalem will be in attendance at today\u2019s event. He has publicly stated his intention to oversee the construction of at least 100,000 new housing units in Jerusalem, as part of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/4\/79e69230c05e4b83e3f7a391794e2565c2babf2838e3ed19cfe672e63f444fd3?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Judaisation plan\u201d for Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illegal annexation in the West Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel is illegally annexing the West Bank at an unprecedented rate, resulting in over 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/5\/e626043c1fca061c4af20147ef0b9936867853db06a532643558b87d74744fa7?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">attacks<\/a> of settler violence and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/6\/115db9ecde835f6c0e73b79e5bdf288767d46c64074ea9fbd5d0309e62bbdb03?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">displacing<\/a> nearly 1,700 Palestinians in the first three months of 2026 alone. The number of Palestinians displaced in early 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/7\/167512877cb832b507b820d23ef23ff6bdadd5280dee28e40bc76489e1149948?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">surpasses<\/a> the total displaced in all of 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/a52743e231c840038a7b593557126b34\/8\/32950bcc0c171924ccbc87e4423028b1e78d85eaf9fa13f13b2a1da25348ee9c?cache_buster=1779987139\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Land sales<\/a> in New York City further contribute to this annexation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTonight, the municipality of Jerusalem and the Israeli Building Center are hosting a discriminatory event in which they plan to sell stolen Palestinian land, open to Jews only. This event is illegal under international law and has no place in New York City. \u201cRight now, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}