In the Palestinian east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian and Jewish activists protested against impending evictions of several Palestinian families. Israel’s Supreme Court delayed its ruling after the attorney general requested help calming the situation. But the two decades of proceedings underscore the differing rights based on religion: Jews who owned property in east Jerusalem before the 1948 war can petition for Palestinians refugees settled there by Jordan in the 1950s to be evicted, while Palestinian Muslims and Christians have never been granted rights to their pre-war properties in Jerusalem or Israel.