Chants of 'death to Arabs' at Jerusalem Day march as Ben Gvir flies Israeli flag on Temple Mount

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Source: Times of Israel

Chants of ‘death to Arabs’ at Jerusalem Day march as Ben Gvir flies Israeli flag on Temple Mount

Extremist youth mobs spit on, curse journalists before religious Zionist revelers crowd into Old City’s Muslim Quarter; 13 arrested; police disperse left-wing group that came to protect Palestinians

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Today, 12:01 am

Tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Israeli youths marched through the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday with cries of “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn” during the nationalist Flag March, while far-right politicians raised the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount and called to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Temple as they marked Jerusalem Day.

Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of the city under Israeli rule in the 1967 Six Day War, has largely become an event associated with the religious Zionist community. The march, which runs through the Muslim Quarter and ends at the Western Wall, has frequently descended into violence amid anti-Arab chants and racist provocations.

This year was no different.

Several far-right politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, set the tone for the day, ascending the Temple Mount before the Flag March began. The ultranationalist police minister, who leads the Otzma Yehudit party, went to the flashpoint site alongside his fellow party member MK Yitzhak Kroizer. The pair waved an Israeli flag in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine, which, along with the rest of the mount, is administered by the Jordanian-controlled Jerusalem Waqf.

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