Religious Tensions Flare at Jerusalem Day Parade
- On Thursday, thousands of Israeli nationalists marched through Jerusalem's Old City for the annual "Dance of the Flags," commemorating Israel's 1967 capture of East Jerusalem.
- Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir preceded the march by displaying an Israeli flag atop the Temple Mount, defying longstanding norms against such displays at the site.
- Ultranationalist demonstrators chanted "Death to Arabs" and "May your villages burn" as marchers passed, while many Palestinian shopkeepers shuttered their businesses to avoid harassment.
- Police arrested 13 people following clashes, while left-wing activists from Standing Together deployed 200 volunteers in purple vests to provide a "protective presence" for Palestinian residents.
- The event took place amid Israel's war with Iran and a "ceasefire" in Gaza, intensifying Palestinian concerns that the procession undermines their ties to the city.
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It is held every year to celebrate the Israeli occupation of the city, with thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews and right-wing nationalists
Thousands of young Jewish supremacists marched in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday, May 14 to commemorate the annexation of the Palestinian side in 1967. A racist and violent parade that...
Israelis mark capture of East Jerusalem with Old City parade chanting ‘death to Arabs’
Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched on Thursday through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City under heavy security, in an annual event marking Israel’s capture of the city’s east in a war nearly six decades ago. Palestinian residents, many of whom barricaded themselves inside their homes in the Old City, view the Jerusalem Day parade as a provocation to undermine their ties to the city. As Israelis marched through the Muslim qu…
‘Death to Arabs’ chanted at Jerusalem march after Ben-Gvir displays Israeli flag on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM — Far-right activists chanted “death to Arabs” and engaged in violent clashes ahead of the annual “Dance of the Flags” march through the Old City that commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War.
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