Recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital crosses ‘a red line’

When Abraham Phelan opened his restaurant in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines he called it Little Jerusalem, writes Victoria White

I began to wonder if he was claiming back a bit of the homeland which has been taken from him and his fellow Palestinians when he named it. I wanted to hear his story.

Abraham was born in 1953 in a small village in the hills with a view towards Jerusalem. Though he and his family were kicked off their land half a century ago during the Six-Day War, his memories of home are overwhelming.