Muna & Muhammad El-Kurd make Time’s “100 Most Influential People”
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Time has revealed its list of 100 most influential people and the activist twins of Sheikh Jarrah have made it to the list.
The list is broken into six categories: Icons, Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders, Innovators. The Sheikh Jarrah activists made the list in the “Icons” category.
“Through online posts and media appearances, sibling activists Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd provided the world with a window into living under occupation in East Jerusalem this spring—helping to prompt an international shift in rhetoric in regard to Israel and Palestine”, Times wrote about the El-Kurds.
“Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd—who were temporarily detained by Israeli authorities this summer—challenged existing narratives about Palestinian resistance through viral posts and interviews, humanizing the experiences of their neighbors and pushing back against suggestions that violence was being predominantly carried out by Palestinians.”
The twin, who has been described as charismatic and bold by the Time, had been leading a fierce campaign against the forced displacement of their family, as well as other residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. They were arrested by Israeli authorities several times as part of the Israeli attempts to silence them.
