India Walks the Tightrope, Again
May 22, 2021
2 minutes
Illustration by TANMOY CHAKRABORTY
In East Jerusalem, tensions run barely below the surface at the best of times. During Ramadan, the slightest provocation can lead to a conflagration. This year, there was plenty: the barricading by Israeli police of the steps outside Damascus Gate, where Palestinians gather for the meal and, recently, to protest; the attempted eviction of Palestinian families—1948 refugees settled there by Jordan in the fifties—from the Sheikh Jarrah
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