‘Jewish supremacy’ on display in occupied East Jerusalem march: Rights group
Prominent Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has described Israel’s Jerusalem Day march as an “example of Jewish supremacy” over Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem.
In post on social media accompanied by video clips of Israeli marchers attempting to kick in the door of a Palestinian home, and another showing a group engaged in anti-Islamic chants and dancing, B’Tselem said those involved “often” provoke and attack Palestinian residents of the city.
“The ‘Flag March’ is an example of Jewish supremacy: thousands of Jewish-Israelis celebrate defiantly while Palestinians are forced to shut their shops and stay home in fear,” the rights group said.
Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday marked on the day East Jerusalem was occupied to celebrate the ‘unification’ of the city in 1967.
In 1968, a festive march to the Western Wall was added to the tradition. Participants march through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City… pic.twitter.com/5QlZkQ8OBC
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 26, 2025
Israel dedicates a holiday to a hate march... Like the KKK having their own national holiday.
Jerusalem Day parade ‘violent and degrading’: Israeli opposition leader
Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid has denounced celebrations of Jerusalem Day, which took place a day earlier.
“Jerusalem Day was celebrated yesterday with a violent and degrading parade, with the singing of ‘may your village burn’ and mocking songs about the children who are dying in Gaza,” Lapid said in a post on X.
He questioned what a prominent rabbi from Israel’s founding days, the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, would have thought about the celebrations.
“Actually, we know what. He is, after all, the man who wrote: ‘Love for people should be alive in the heart of man … even towards peoples who are not from our world,'” Lapid added.
Israeli activists block aid en route to Gaza
Far-right activists have gathered at Israel’s port of Ashdod, about 30km (18 miles) from the Gaza Strip, to block aid destined for the besieged enclave.
According to footage published by Israeli media and social media, protesters stood in front of trucks as they exited the port gates, while Israeli police forces attempted to remove the protesters from the trucks’ path.
פעילי ימין הגיעו לנמל אשדוד כדי לחסום משאיות סיוע המיועדות לעזה.
צילום: צו 9 pic.twitter.com/uKxPokPKCz
— ישראל היום (@IsraelHayomHeb) May 27, 2025
Translation: Right-wing activists arrived at the Ashdod port to block aid trucks destined for Gaza.
