This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on June 15, 2021.SNIPPET:
Thousands of Israelis participated in the ultra-nationalist “Flag March” in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday, marching through the streets of the city chanting “Death to Arabs” and other racist anti-Palestinian slogans.
An estimated 5,000 Israelis, primarily youth, belonging to far-right and ultra-nationalist groups participated in the provocative parade, which is held every year in commemoration of Israel’s occupation of the city in 1967.
An estimated 5,000 Israelis, primarily youth, belonging to far-right and ultra-nationalist groups participated in the provocative parade, which is held every year in commemoration of Israel’s occupation of the city in 1967—a move celebrated by Israelis as the “unification” of Jerusalem, though recognized by the international community as illegal annexation.
Hordes of Israeli demonstrators, under the protection of hundreds of armed Israeli troops, waved Israeli flags and chanted nationalist slogans as they marched from West Jerusalem to the eastern part of the city.
Outside the Damascus Gate, the entrance to the Muslim quarter of the Old City, crowds of 👿
Israelis danced, waved Israeli flags, and chanted racist slogans.
Among the 👿
chants that were reported were “
Death to Arabs,” “
may your village burn,”
and “
a second Nakba is coming,” referring to the nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, when thousands of Palestinians were massacred by Zionist militias and over 750,000 were forcibly expelled from their homes in 1948.
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