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UN Resolution Targets 250,000 Jews in Jerusalem
(JNS.org) Rafael Medoff - UN Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted on Dec. 23 with the U.S. abstaining, asserted that Israeli settlement activities in "East Jerusalem" are "a flagrant violation of international law." A number of major Jerusalem neighborhoods are situated in what the UN calls "East Jerusalem," the area that Jordan occupied from 1948 to 1967. "My grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents, going back seven generations, are buried on the Mount of Olives," said Washington, D.C.-based attorney Alyza Lewin. "Does the UN propose to ban Jews from using the oldest and largest Jewish cemetery in the world?" The Israeli branch of Conservative Judaism sponsors a school and synagogue in French Hill, a school in Gilo, and synagogues in the Ramot neighborhood and the Jerusalem satellite community of Ma'ale Adumim. "Many of the areas the UN purports to 'return' are historically and by rights Jewish territory recognized de facto by the parties themselves," said Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Mordechai Nisan, a professor of Middle East studies at Hebrew University, said, "More than 250,000 Jews reside in parts of Jerusalem past the 1967 lines, and they are here to stay. The supporters of the recent UN resolution are delusional - they are living in their own little echo chamber, with no connection to reality."