Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' in violent Jerusalem Day march

Palestinian residents shuttered shops and fled the Old City; scuffles between marchers and remaining Palestinians resulted in chair-throwing incidents; counter-protesters mobilized to prevent attacks on Palestinian residents.

Each year, Jerusalem becomes a stage on which competing claims to land, faith, and memory are performed with increasing intensity. On Thursday, thousands of Israeli marchers moved through the Old City chanting calls for Arab death and village burnings, while a sitting government minister raised a flag at Islam's third holiest site — a deliberate rupture of a decades-old agreement meant to hold fragile coexistence in place. The march, state-sanctioned and state-funded, was framed by its participants as restoration; to those who shuttered their shops and fled, it arrived as dispossession made lo

Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' in violent Jerusalem Day march

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