This disturbing video shows Israeli youths, escorted by police and occupation
forces, marching through the Old City of Jerusalem chanting “mavet la’aravim” –
“death to the Arabs” – and other cries of hate.
Posted April 25, 2015
According to the racism-monitoring
website Kifaya, the 19 April march was part of the monthly “Tour of the
Gates” by Jewish extremists through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
As part of the event, held at the beginning of every month
according to the Jewish calendar, the one-kilometer-long route is blocked to
Palestinians, and businesses and stores must close, Kifaya says.
Palestinians are forbidden from leaving their homes during the
march.
“Some 1,500 Jews participated in the march,” Kifaya says, “and
it was secured by hundreds of policemen and soldiers, who thronged the area.”
Organized hate
In addition to “death to the Arabs,” the marchers’ repertoire
of cries and songs included: “revenge,” “may your name be wiped out,” “may your
village be burnt down,” and the anti-Muslim chant “Muhammad is dead” –- all
heard by the police and occupation forces who secured the event, Kifaya says.
Some of the marchers even banged on the doors of homes and
businesses and there were also some attempts to damage property.
Israel expert Dena Shunra told The Electronic Intifada that
“may your name be wiped out” is a “very potent curse, generally used for enemies
of the entire Jewish nation. Hitler is always mentioned with that curse.”
Shunra observes that the video reveals the highly organized
nature of the march: the youths in the yellow vests in front have the word
“ushers” on their backs.
At 0:24, a young man can be seen wearing a kippa –
skull cap – with the word “Nachman” on it, indicating that he, at least, is
affiliated with the Breslauer
sect of Hasidic Jews.
At 0:54 some participants can be seen holding what look like
papers with slogans printed on them.
It is striking, Shunra adds, “the way liturgical texts and
songs are interspersed amongst the hate cries.”
Israelis regularly hold similar hate marches on “Jerusalem
Day,” a government-decreed annual celebration of the city’s military
occupation and annexation in
violation of international law.
Incitement leads to murder
Last July, the Palestinian teenager Muhammad
Abu-Khudair was abducted from the streets of occupied Jerusalem’s Shuafat
neighborhood and then burned alive by his captors.
But the move was also rejected by Muhammad’s father, Hussein
Abu Khudair, whotold
Ma’an News Agency that the “occupation authorities are trying to improve
their image in the world” and that putting his son’s name on the memorial “would
not change the racist reality of the Israeli occupation.”
Nothing vindicates Hussein Abu Khudair more clearly than the
sight of Israeli police and occupation forces providing an escort for a mob
chanting the words “death to the Arabs” that very likely inspired his son’s
murderers.
What is even more alarming is that many of the participants in
this march appear to be children themselves.
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