In recent years, many academics drew attention on the negative impacts of various neoliberal restructuring processes on urban dwellers in cities. This thesis presents the concept of the “right to the city,” initially established by Henri Lefebvre in the 1960s, as an expression of the right to urban life, which is comprised of many rights and a new citizenship politics. Following that, social movements investigated various answers to social inequalities, defining them in Lefebvre's concept of the “right to the city” as a method of better empowering urban residents to shape their cities as they see appropriate. From this perspective, I use the concept of the “right to the city” as an analytical framework in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle to address the claims of Palestinian minorities within the setting of occupation and power relations over Jerusalem, which makes realization of the “right to the city” principles a distant possibility.