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Jerusalem Post witnesses said that they saw rioters spit on Standing Together activists, assault police officers, and sing racist chants.
The Israel Police and left-leaning Israeli organizations reported several instances of violence in the Old City and the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem.Videos circulated on social media showed activists from Standing Together being assaulted by rioters and escorted out of the quarter by the police. The organization said that it was providing a protective presence to Arab Israelis in the area.
Another video showed rioters swarming a group of Arab Israeli women and performing derogatory gestures.
Post reporters also heard nationalistic chants that could incite racial violence, including “We will burn your villages!”
Reporters also saw marchers in the Flag Day Parade wearing shirts that said “Without Nakba, there is no victory.”
Signs in the parade also contained expansionist and nationalistic themes, including: “67: Jerusalem is in our hands 2025: Gaza is in our hands.”
Democrats chairman Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yair Golan called the riots an offense to Judaism and Zionism.
“This is not what love for Jerusalem looks like: This is what hatred, racism, and bullying look like. This is not our Judaism. This is not the Zionism we believe in,” he wrote on X/Twitter.
Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter
Thousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.The annual march, paid for and promoted by the Jerusalem city government, celebrates Israel’s capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the war of 1967. The Israeli takeover is not recognised internationally.
