Far-right activist Baruch Marzel, a founder of the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, distances the annual Jerusalem Day flag march from this morning’s attacks on Arabs by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem’s Old City, claiming that those involved in the violence did not represent the event’s participants.
The march’s organizers work closely with the police to keep things calm and safe, he tells The Times of Israel while wearing a sticker extolling the late extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach party, which is considered a Jewish terror group and is outlawed in Israel.
Critics of the march, which celebrates the reunification of East and West Jerusalem in 1967’s Six Day War, argue that parading through predominantly Arab areas of the Old City antagonizes the city’s Palestinian population, and often leads to violence against its residents by ultranationalist Jewish youth.
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