In a lively and illuminating discussion with Palestine Deep Dive (PDD), Mark Seddon and renowned journalist and President of the Foreign Press Association – New York City, Ian Williams, shine a light on the ongoing crises in Palestine and Ukraine.

Former PLO legislator and negotiator Dr. Hanan Ashrawi delivered a keynote speech at ‘Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home and Abroad’, the annual conference organised by Washington Report for Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) and Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).

“Budour, I wonder from where you are sitting, you see what's happening in eastern Ukraine and you have seen, you've been living with this occupation, but specifically with Golan Heights, which was an invasion, or occupation of territory that belongs to Syria and yet nobody's talking about sanctions against Israel, nobody ever has for doing that. Why is this? Why this inconsistency?” asks Mark Seddon.

In this week’s show, Mark Seddon speaks with Deep Dive regular, Budour Hassan, a Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), for the latest news on what's really happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah.

Examining the recent attempts to displace the Salem family of 12, including six children, from their family home of 70 years in Sheikh Jarrah Budour exposes the wider systematic regime of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians Israel wields to facilitate its demographic ambitions across Jerusalem and beyond.