“Death to the Arabs”: in Jerusalem, thousands of Israelis chant their hatred of the Palestinians

Since dawn, the Old City of Jerusalem has been walled up: its alleys, usually crowded with stalls and passers-by, are deserted. Not a sound disturbs the lugubrious silence of a city that seems to be hiding. Only heavily harnessed police officers patrol. « On attend les fous »slips a merchant who closes his iron shutter. A few hours later, the first groups of young Israelis, wearing nationalist attire, began to take over the streets. The first scuffles break out. In a street in the Christian quarter, around ten young people attack a shopkeeper who is closing his shop. The chairs are flying. The merchant tries to keep them away. It will take the intervention of peaceful Israeli volunteers to keep the young thugs away.

Every year, Jerusalem Day is the occasion for racist outbursts and Jewish supremacist slogans from uninhibited nationalist youth. Thursday, once again, tens of thousands…