Israel: Racism of ‘Jerusalem Day’ march

The far-“Jerusalem right’s Day” flag march on Sunday was a day of incitement and violence against Palestinians.
Approximately 70,000 Israelis marched through occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, brandishing Israeli flags and emphasizing that they were the genuine rulers of Jerusalem.
The march, which commemorates Israel’s 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem and subsequent annexation, is held every year, but this year it drew one of the largest audiences ever.
Israeli troops watched while Palestinians, young and old, were attacked.
Palestinians were forced to listen while ultranationalist Jews screamed anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic cries such as “Death to Arabs” and “Muhammed is dead” in the Old City’s small alleyways.
Other cries included “a Jew is a soul, an Arab is a son of a whore,” “Shuafat is on fire,” and “a Jew is a soul, an Arab is a son of a whore” — alluding to the 2015 burning alive of 15-year-old Palestinian youth Mohammed Abu Khdeir by Israeli settlers in Jerusalem.
“May your village burn,” a chant that alluded to the ethnic cleansing of the majority of Palestinians by Zionist paramilitaries in 1948.
Journalists covering the march were targeted on Sunday, with some ultranationalists celebrating the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by an Israeli sniper earlier this month while filming an army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
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