Palestinian Activist Criticizes Attempts To Sanitize Forced Displacement In Sheikh Jarrah

"Just because you can legalize an evil act doesn’t make it any less evil," Mohammed el-Kurd, who was recently detained, told journalist Mehdi Hasan.

A Palestinian activist whom Israeli forces recently arrested and then freed said Monday that the international community must cut through propaganda and identify the continued expulsion of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood for what it really is. Mohammed el-Kurd, who since childhood has protested the Israeli occupation with his twin sister, Muna el-Kurd, spoke to Peacock TV’s Mehdi Hasan about, among other things, the 23-year-old siblings involuntarily becoming the global face of Palestinian resistance and thus being targeted by Israeli forces.  Both Mohammed and Muna el-Kurd were temporarily detained by Israeli military forces on Sunday for leading protests against settlers trying to forcefully expel dozens of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem. Though the el-Kurds have spent most of their lives nonviolently documenting their struggles as Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, both brother and sister went viral separately in the past month for their activism.