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Monday, May 26, 2025
Marchers chant ‘death to Arabs’ and ‘may your village burn’ in Old City’s Muslim Quarter ahead of Flag March
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National-religious Israelis clash with Palestinian shopkeepers and sing racist chants in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of the annual contentious Flag March.
Eyewitnesses tell The Times of Israel that a Palestinian youth was arrested after he pepper-sprayed a crowd of Jewish revelers during a scuffle that broke out between the two groups.
Following the arrest, the Jewish marchers chant “Death to Arabs” while thronging the Muslim Quarter.
Some are filmed shoving an elderly Palestinian man making his way through the crowd.
One of the Jewish celebrants, an adolescent, attempts to prevent the reporter from filming as police and border cops use force to separate the crowd from Palestinians and left-wing activists.
Jerusalem Day in the Old City, religious Zionist youth chanting "death to Arabs" pic.twitter.com/xgACdi5Y8v
— charlie summers (@cbsu03) May 26, 2025
Separate footage shows a group of Jewish young men and teens singing “May your village burn,” a common anti-Arab refrain.
The video shows security officials escorting a group of Arab women away from the jostling crowd.
The footage appears to have been filmed in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.
רמקולים חובה. pic.twitter.com/kEQ14vfy90
— نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון (@nirhasson) May 26, 2025
Extremist Jewish youths attending the Flag March have been known to harass and beat Palestinians during the procession, especially as it enters the Old City through the Muslim Quarter’s Damascus Gate.
Last year’s march saw several attacks on Palestinians and journalists by marchers, who chanted anti-Arab refrains and plastered stickers on shuttered shops supporting the ideology of the late ultranationalist rabbi Meir Kahane and calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
The Times of Israel Community.