{"id":51148,"date":"2017-01-13T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51148"},"modified":"2017-01-13T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:12:12","slug":"afro-palestinians-forge-a-unique-identity-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51148","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a>
\n2017-01-12<\/p>\n

Isma’il Kushkush<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nIn this Dec. 31, 2016 photo, Arab families of African descent attend a wedding in the West Bank<\/a> city of Ramallah<\/a>. In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque<\/a> in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City<\/a> lies the \u201cAfrican Quarter\u201d — home to a little-known community of nearly 50 Arab families of African descent, who call themselves, “Afro-Palestinian<\/a>s.” Descended from Muslim pilgrims from a variety of African countries, they now consider themselves proud Palestinians, despite widespread poverty and occasional discrimination from both Palestinians and Israelis. Several have even participated in violent attacks against Israel<\/a>. (AP Photo\/Nasser Shiyoukhi<\/a>).<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

JERUSALEM<\/a> (AP) \u2014 In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque<\/a> in Jerusalem’s Old City<\/a> lies the “African Quarter” \u2014 home to a little-known community of nearly 50 Arab families of African descent.<\/p>\n

Descended from Muslim pilgrims from a variety of African countries, they now consider themselves proud Palestinians, despite widespread poverty and occasional discrimination from both Palestinians and Israelis. Several have even participated in violent attacks against Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Afro-Palestinian<\/a>“We regard ourselves to be Afro-Palestinian<\/a>,” said community leader Ali Jiddah…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel The Associated Press 2017-01-12 Isma’il Kushkush In this Dec. 31, 2016 photo, Arab families of African descent attend a wedding in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City lies the \u201cAfrican Quarter\u201d — home to a little-known community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,820],"tags":[25971,25976,25970,2822,25975,25973,25974,25969,25972],"class_list":["post-51148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-afro-palestinians","tag-ahmad-jibril","tag-ali-jiddah","tag-associated-press","tag-fatima-bernawi","tag-hanan-bersi","tag-hawa-balalawi","tag-ismail-kushkush","tag-mousa-qous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51150,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51148\/revisions\/51150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}