The Grand Land Theft

Bimkom and Ir Amim’s joint analysis paper examines the current status and dire ramifications of the State of Israel’s formal registration of land ownership in East Jerusalem. Officially known as “settlement of land title (SOLT),” this state-led process in East Jerusalem is being carried out unimpeded in an alarming fashion.

Data collected over the past five years reveal that these procedures are being exploited as a new and potent tool of land theft. It appears to have become a new mechanism to expand and finalize state and settler appropriation of territory across East Jerusalem, while increasing the threat of Palestinian dispossession and displacement.