Israeli nationalists chant racist slogans on march through Jerusalem
by Ben Lynfield and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem from World news | The Guardian on (#6BSVP)
Death to Arabs' chanted by some of the thousands celebrating capture of Old City in 1967 as three journalists wounded
Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting racist slogans, have paraded through Jerusalem's Old City in an annual celebratory day for Israelis that became one of humiliation for Palestinians living under occupation.
The marchers, mostly male Orthodox teens and young men, were celebrating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The crowd waved blue and white Israeli flags and chanted slogans such as Death to Arabs" and We will burn your village".
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