The Armenian community in Jerusalem, right now, is championing issues of paramount importance to the survival and security of the Armenian Quarter of the Old City. The Jerusalem Armenians are caught in an endemic struggle for the historical right to exist on that very land.

For our nation, this is a critical theme that transcends geographic limitations and evidences a wider, indeed quite sophisticated, effort to effectuate the ultimate dispossession and displacement of the Armenian people from key places of historic presence and international importance. Just as in Western Armenia, we see this stratagem unfolding today in Artsakh, on the borders of Armenia and, now quite starkly, in Jerusalem too.

Jerusalem Armenians have taken a powerful and noble stand against forces bent on changing the history and demography of our people’s centuries-old existence in the Old City. The voice of the Armenian people remains the final defense of this historic presence—and indeed, of our people’s very future—in the Armenian Quarter.

We at the Tatoyan Foundation Center for Law and Justice have started this important campaign to bring necessary support to help fund the work ahead including much needed legal actions, expert analyses and other time-sensitive actions to raise global awareness of these critical issues before relevant courts, decision-makers and international tribunals. We need your help.

Please join us to support this historic effort to help the Armenian Community of the Old City of Jerusalem as it stands, right now, in defense of its very survival and security.

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Legal Defense Fund for Jerusalem Armenians