Report: Israel arrested no Jews over violent, racist march | NEWSRUX

JERUSALEM — Israeli police arrested dozens of Palestinians however no Jews throughout a nationalist march by means of Jerusalem this week wherein crowds of Jews chanted racist slogans, assaulted Palestinians and vandalized Palestinian property, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

Israeli police had stated after Sunday’s march that over 60 folks have been arrested, however have refused to present a breakdown, regardless of queries by The Related Press. The Haaretz every day reported Thursday that it checked arrest data identify by identify, and located that no Jews have been amongst these detained. It stated two Jews have been arrested in a separate, associated incident.

Tens of hundreds of Israeli nationalists participated in Sunday’s parade — an annual march that celebrates Israel’s seize of east Jerusalem within the 1967 Mideast struggle. Palestinians think about the occasion a provocation.

Israeli police cleared out the world for the marchers, who handed by means of a Palestinian neighborhood earlier than continuing to the Jewish Quarter of the Outdated Metropolis to hope on the Western Wall.

Giant crowds, a lot of them younger Orthodox Jewish youths carrying Israeli flags, gathered on the entrance to the Outdated Metropolis’s Muslim Quarter, dancing and chanting slogans reminiscent of “Demise to Arabs,” earlier than persevering with on their means. Contained in the Outdated Metropolis, the marchers pounded on the gates of Palestinian companies and scuffled with indignant Palestinian residents. Movies captured on social media confirmed marchers spitting, beating and spraying pepper spray at Palestinians and journalists.

Fights broke out alongside the route, as police primarily intervened to guard Jews and forcibly disperse Palestinians.

In response to the Haaretz report, practically all of these arrested Thursday have been Palestinian. Two Jewish suspects have been arrested after the parade within the beating of a Palestinian journalist throughout unrest outdoors the Outdated Metropolis, it stated. The newspaper compiled the statistics by going by means of court docket data within the days after the parade.

Israeli police didn’t reply to a request for remark. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has stated solely a small minority of the flag marchers was chargeable for the unhealthy habits and vowed to prosecute anybody who broke the regulation.

Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem have lengthy complained of a double commonplace wherein Palestinian crowds are ceaselessly arrested and violently dispersed by police with golf equipment, tear fuel and rubber bullets, whereas Jewish settlers typically perform assaults and vandalism with digital impunity. Israeli police deny such prices, saying they’re merely imposing the regulation.

The Outdated Metropolis is a part of east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a transfer not acknowledged internationally and considers a part of its capital. The Palestinians need east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.

Human rights teams say that discriminatory therapy of Palestinians in east Jerusalem is a part of a broader system that quantities to apartheid. Israel vehemently rejects that label as an assault on its legitimacy rooted in antisemitism.

Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip within the 1967 Mideast struggle. The Palestinians search all three areas for a future impartial state. The final spherical of substantive peace talks broke down over a decade in the past.