The house is located in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood where Palestinian residents have been ordered to vacate by an Israeli court.
In what Palestinian observers and advocates call a glaring example of settler colonialism in action, a video circulating on social media this week shows a Palestinian woman confronting an Israeli man who admits he is trying to steal her family’s home in occupied East Jerusalem.
According toAl Jazeera, Palestinian activist Tamer Maqalda recorded the footage of the exchange between Mona al-Kurd and a man with a North American accent named Jacob, whom al-Kurd knows because his family has already stolen half of her home.
“Jacob, you know that this is not your house,” al-Kurd tells the man in her backyard, who replies: “What’s the problem? Why are you yelling at me?”
“I didn’t do this,” the man insists. “It’s easy to yell at me, but I didn’t do this.”
Al-Kurd then pleads, “You are stealing my house!”
Jacob replies: “And if I don’t steal it, someone else is going to steal it.”
Al-Kurd then protests that “no one is allowed to steal it.”
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