March of the Flags

Israeli Jewish extremists chant racist and violent slogans against Palestinians during the Flag March on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

WATCH: Jewish supremacists chant ‘Death to Arabs’ during Flag March

Far-right Israelis attacked Palestinian shop owners, journalists, and onlookers as they chanted genocidal slogans while marching through Jerusalem.

By Oren Ziv May 30, 2022

Palestinian students wave flags at the Nakba Day ceremony at Tel Aviv University, May 15, 2022. (Activestills)

What’s behind Israel’s intensifying war on the Palestinian flag?

On both sides of the Green Line, Israel’s escalating attacks against the very sight of Palestinian flags betrays the insecurity of its colonial project.

By Orly Noy May 26, 2022

Israeli police arrest a Palestinian protester outside the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. May 14, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Bearing witness to the routine violence of occupation

In East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinians have virtually no civil rights. What rights they do have can be revoked at a moment’s notice. By Zak Witus and Sasha Belenkiy Even when the cameras of the big international news agencies disappear, the occupation grinds on. One day in the West Bank and East Jerusalem…

By +972 Magazine June 10, 2018

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A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli Border Police officer during Jerusalem Day celebrations near the Old City, May 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

No amount of police can scrub out the racism of Jerusalem Day

With double the usual police presence, the anti-Arab slogans usually heard during Jerusalem Day were quickly silenced. But the racism wasn’t so swiftly scrubbed out. By Oren Ziv and Orly Noy A day before Israel was set to celebrate the U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem, the annual “March of the Flags,” in which thousands of nationalist…

By Oren Ziv May 14, 2018

Sarah Brammer-Shlay (Eliana Fishman)

U.S. Jewish activist to undergo surgery on arm broken by Israeli cops

Sarah Brammer-Shlay, whose arm was broken by Israeli police as they forcibly removed her from a Jerusalem Day protest, will be undergoing a $25,000 operation on Thursday. An American-Jewish activist whose arm was broken by Israeli police as they forcefully dispersed a Jerusalem Day protest last week will need to undergo surgery. Sarah Brammer-Shlay, 25,…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 28, 2017

An activist with IfNotNow is carried away by Israeli police during a Jerusalem Day protest, Jerusalem, May 24, 2017. (JC/Activestills.org)

Israeli cops assault American Jewish activists in Jerusalem Day protest

Israeli police forcefully dispersed American Jewish anti-occupation activists, who had gathered in the Old City to protest Jerusalem Day and the March of the Flags. Israeli police broke the arm of an American Jewish activist and injured several other anti-occupation demonstrators while forcefully dispersing a Jerusalem Day protest in the Old City on Wednesday. The demonstration,…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 24, 2017

A restaurant in West Jerusalem, closed in solidarity with Palestinians traders affected by the 'March of the Flags,' May 24, 2017.

Jerusalem Day: W. J’lm businesses shutter in solidarity with Palestinians

Each year on Jerusalem Day, Palestinian businesses located along the route of the March of the Flags are ordered by police to shut up shop during the parade. This year, Jewish business owners in West Jerusalem closed up early in solidarity. By Yael Marom On Wednesday afternoon, as on every Jerusalem Day, Palestinians in and…

By +972 Magazine May 24, 2017

Behind police barricades, Palestinian residents of Jerusalem hold a counter-protest against the nationalist display in their neighborhood, June 5, 2016. In years past physical and verbal violence against Palestinians was a central feature of the march. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel’s extremist settlers are aiming for the mainstream

The fact that this year’s Jerusalem Day did not include violence and racist chants against Palestinians signals a change of strategy in winning the hearts and minds of average Israelis. The main lesson I learned from Jerusalem Days past was to wear comfortable walking shoes. Or preferably running shoes, since I previously learned that there…

By Orly Noy June 6, 2016

Israel youth walk in Jerusalem's old city, as they take part in the flags march, to celebrate 48 years for the occupation of East Jerusalem May 17, 2015.

PHOTOS: Jerusalem Day brings tensions in divided city to the fore

The traditional ‘march of the flags’ on Jerusalem Day, marking the ‘reunification’ of the city under Israeli sovereignty, has more to do with domination over Palestinians than celebration. Photos and video by Oren Ziv, Keren Manor, Faiz Abu-Rmeleh, Tess Schaflan, Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org Text by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man Jerusalem Day is billed as a…

By Activestills May 18, 2015

Israeli settlers march into the Old City of Jerusalem during the 'Jerusalem Day' march, East Jerusalem, May 8, 2013. Earlier that day, police forces ordered Palestinian shops and stands inside the Old City to close at 15:00. In previous years, Israeli settlers had vandalized and destroyed many Palestinian shops that remained open during the march. (Photo by: Yotam Ronen/ Activestills.org)

WATCH: Racism-filled march curbs Palestinian movement in Jerusalem

High Court dismisses petition to re-route the ‘Jerusalem Day’ march away from the Muslim Quarter, but tells police it expects them to act against the type of racist incitement for which the ‘March of the Flags’ is notorious. Two Jerusalem-based NGOs on Monday lost a legal battle to keep Israel’s hyper-nationalist, racist and often violent…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man May 12, 2015