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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Thursday, May 18, 2023
Jewish marcher in Jerusalem says it ‘bothers me’ that Arabs are ‘in my country’
Carrie Keller-Lynn is a political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
About 100 young men from the West Bank’s Alon More yeshiva dance in Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 18, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
Two friends among the groups of young religious teenagers who came to the Old City’s Muslim Quarter for the Flag March say they arrived to “demonstrate for Jewish identity,” according to Tzvika, 16, from Maale Adumim.
When asked what they thought the local Arab population might feel about the march, Ilan, 15, also from Maale Adumim, says: “Of course it bothers them. It bothers me that they’re in my country.”
