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Illustrative: US President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate instances of flag burning, in the Oval Office of the White House, August 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
August 26, 2025, 3:29 am
Trump orders crackdown on US flag burning, raising free speech concerns
US president directs AG to prosecute those who burn or in any way desecrate American flag and pursue litigation to clarify scope of the First Amendment regarding the issue
By Brendan O'Brien and Kanishka Singh
A police patrol car on fire in the city of Lod, on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 29, 2021, 6:54 pm
5 Arab Lod residents indicted for participating in riots during Gaza conflict
Suspects charged with unlawful use of weapon, hurling Molotov cocktails at cars and homes and interfering with cops
By ToI Staff
Screenshot from a video being shared on social media said to depict an Iranian man accidentally setting himself alight after attempting to burn an Israeli flag, posted on May 8 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)
May 10, 2021, 12:39 am
Video shows Iranian man burning Israeli flag, which then sets him on fire
Incident reportedly occurred during Friday al-Quds Day protests
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Moroccans burn the Israeli flag during a demonstration against the US Middle East peace plan in the capital Rabat on February 9, 2020. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
February 17, 2020, 9:56 pm
Bahrain man jailed for 3 years after burning Israeli flag at riot
Court refuses to hear appeal, convicting defendant of organizing illegal demonstration; locals accuse government of seeking to appease Jerusalem, amid thawing of ties
By ToI Staff
Children at a Palestinian summer camp tear pictures of the American flag and US President Donald Trump as a counselor sets them on fire, in a video posted on Facebook by the Palestinian Authority Higher Council for Youth and Sports, July 3, 2019.
July 4, 2019, 7:28 pm
Palestinian kids at PA-run special needs camp burn Trump, US flag photos
Video posted by the Palestinian Authority shows counselors helping kids rip up and torch pictures in protest of US economic plan
By ToI Staff
Iranian lawmakers burn paper US flag in parliament on May 9, 2018, after US President Donald Trump withdraws from nuclear deal. (Screen capture: Twitter)
May 9, 2018, 8:56 am
Iranian lawmakers burn US flag, vow response ‘US and Zionists will regret’
Legislators also burn copy of nuclear deal after Trump pullout, with parliament speaker calling US president ‘egotistical and amateurish’
By AP and ToI Staff
Demonstrators wave Palestinian, Turkish and Syrian flags in front of the Brandenburg Gate, next to the US embassy in Berlin on December 8, 2017, (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)
December 11, 2017, 3:40 pm
Germany ‘ashamed’ over anti-Israel protests
Government spokesman says constitutional right to free speech and assembly doesn’t cover incitement to racial hatred or violence
By AFP and ToI Staff
Ultra-orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim burn an Israeli flag at the end of the country‘s 69th Independence Day, May 2, 2017. (Channel 10 screenshot.)
May 3, 2017, 1:41 am
Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag
TV footage shows men and boys from Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood watching as flag is waved back and forth in bonfire
By Sue Surkes
Knesset Member Nava Boker, June 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 30, 2016, 7:22 pm
MK wants to revoke citizenship for flag desecration
Following Trump’s early morning tweet, Likud’s Nava Boker suggests stiffening the penalty for those who burn Israeli emblem
By ToI Staff
Jennifer Quinones of Garland, Texas, holds up a sign as she joins others gathered to protest President-elect Donald Trump's victory, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
November 10, 2016, 8:17 am
Thousands protest Trump win in major US cities
Demonstrators chanting ‘Not my president!’ and ‘Trump’s a racist’ flood the streets in towns from coast to coast
By AP
Delegates attend the COP22 international climate conference on November 9, 2016, in Marrakesh. (AFP/Fadel Senna)
November 9, 2016, 11:07 pm
Hundreds protest, burn Israeli flag at UN climate talks
Over 200 demonstrate in Morocco against ‘symbolically recognizing’ Jewish state, chant ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’
By AFP
Soldiers patrolling near Nablus in 2014. ( IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)
April 13, 2016, 5:55 pm
2 IDF soldiers jailed for burning Palestinian flag
Troops confiscate flag from passing vehicle, burn it in front of hundreds of Palestinians at checkpoint
By Dov Lieber and Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative photo of protesters burning an Israeli flag during a protest against Israel's attacks of the Gaza Strip. (AP/Kostas Tsironis)
March 23, 2016, 5:30 pm
MKs advance bill tightening penalty for flag desecration
Anyone who burns the national emblem could face up to 3 years in prison, have health insurance revoked
By ToI Staff
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