Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the American embassy there.

Jerusalem has long been a site of Israeli oppression against Palestinians. As the Israeli human rights group B’tselem explains, Trump claims Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, but “Israel has never recognized Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents — the people whose land the state annexed unilaterally and unlawfully.”

During the 1947-48 ethnic cleansing campaign through which the Israeli state was created, Israel took control of West Jerusalem. Twenty years later, it began its occupation East Jerusalem and, in 1973, mandated a 73 to 26 percent demographic advantage for Jewish residents.