In conjunction with this tour Zochrot produced a booklet: “Remembering Jaffa’s Ajami Neighborhood.” That booklet, written in Hebrew and Arabic, is available [free] from a link within the web report, and can be downloaded directly at http://www.zochrot.org/images/ajami_booklet_web.pdf

For further information also see:
“Jaffa: from eminence to ethnic cleansing,” Sami Abu Shehadeh & Fadi Shbaytah, The Electronic Intifada, 27 February 2009, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10338.shtml

and

“The Nakba Continues: The Ethnic Cleansing of Jaffa’s Ajami Neighborhood,” Encyclopedia Britanica, July 2008. http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/32458221/The-Nakba-Continues-The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Jaffas-Ajami-Neighborhood [Excerpt] ” Jaffa is one of Israel’s so-called “mixed” cities, but a simple walk around its neighborhoods shows the lack of “mixing”–the rundown and overcrowded streets are a stark contrast from those of Tel Aviv, Ajami is the lowest income neighborhood of all Tel Aviv/Jaffa’s 60 neighborhoods. How has the Israeli government managed to stay within its own legal system and still concentrate so many demolition orders in one neighborhood? Explained Jaffa Popular Committee member Sami Shehadah: “Between the 1960s and the late 1980s municipal authorities placed a total freeze on all permits for new building or renovations with the intention of demolishing the whole area for redevelopment. Unfortunately for the Arab residents crowded into the Ajami neighborhood, 80 percent of these houses were built pre-1948, and without any renovations the ceilings would quite literally fall in on their heads. With a freeze on allocation of permits for renovations they had no choice for the safety of the families but to go ahead without permission from Israeli authorities.”