Following the incident of a Arab woman pouring water on MK Michael Ben-Ari by the tomb of Shimon HaTzadik (Simon the Just), the Jerusalem municipality has dismantled the protest tent race by Israeli pro-Arab activists. The activists are Jewish-Israelis who are siding with the Arab citizens of the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood who don’t want Jewish residents moving in. The Arabs call the neighborhood Sheik Jarrah. The Jerusalem Municipality says the activists were inciting people to violence.

The neighborhood was formerly Jewish until the Conflict of Independence in 1948 after which is became mostly Arab.new court cases have awarded Jewish residents the tight to plod in and have evicted some Arab squatters. Jewish-Israeli sympathizers have been protesting in support of the Arabs, while supporters of the Jewish residents, such as MK Ben-Ari have been holding prayer services at the nearby tomb.

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