Israeli courts have recently sided with Jewish settler groups in ruling to expel nearly three dozen Palestinians from homes in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah. The two neighbourhoods are key areas of occupied East Jerusalem where settlers have sought to take over Palestinian properties. Israeli authorities and settlers have long wanted to strip Palestinian Muslim and Christian East Jerusalem of its ethnic and religious identity and turn it into a Jewish-Israeli area. Noam Sohlberg, a Supreme Court judge, decided last week that 15 Palestinians must leave their Silwan homes, the Israeli newspaper Haare…