Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighborhood north of the Old City of Jerusalem. On the western side of the neighborhood, is an area of 18 dunams known as the Shimon Hatsadik compound, in name of the great high priest from the Second Temple era, who is buried there according to some traditions. A small Jewish community that settled in the late 19th century around the tomb was dispersed gradually beginning in the 1920s and 1930s and through 1948.
That was from Ir Amim's site.
Now you know what the problem is?
The Jews went into dispersion.
Of course, they were ethnically cleansed from the neighborhood which wasn't an Arab neighborhood other than a few houses built at about the same time the Jews began constructed there.
Lie. Deceive. Laundry your language (as the Hebrew phrase goes).
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I especially like the historical revisionism about the Shimon Hatsadik tomb. The writer, unsurprisingly, fails to mention that the actual 'Tomb of the Kings', which can be seen in photographs taken in the late 19th century and drawings centuries older, pre-dates Arab building in the area. The fact that someone may or not be buried there "according to some traditions" is completely irrelevant. The tomb itself was a recognized Jewish site for many centuries.
I have more info on the nieghbourhood on my blog and Emet m'Tsiyon has an excellent post on the Tomb of Shimon HaTsadik here
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