Violence: after far-right Israelis marched through Jerusalem shouting ‘Death to Arabs’ it didn’t take long for violence to happen. Who do you think suffered the most harm as a result?

This is what happens when a country’s government demands that anybody not belonging to a particular ethnic/religious group must be second-class citizens.

The right-wing government of Israel has enacted laws to put Jewish citizens above anybody else who lives there – and has actually walled off Palestinian settlements (until such time as Jewish settlers can turf out the residents and take their homes).

It was only a small step from there to the scenes we witnessed in Jerusalem’s Old City, when hundreds of far-right activists took to the streets, shouting “Death to Arabs”.

It is an insult against their own history. After the Nazi Holocaust, Jewish people should be on the side of the oppressed, never that of the oppressors.

But it does conform to a very sad social phenomenon – that a proportion of people who suffer abuse go on to become abusers themselves. It is well-documented among individuals; now we see a society going the same way.

Let’s see some of the evidence. I present it with comments from Twitter users who provided it:

The obvious response to the young woman in the last clip is that her sentiment was shared by people in Berlin in the 1930s and 40s – but they were referring to Jews.

In fairness, this was just one gang of far-right racists. Other Israelis have been lining up to condemn what happened.

But the only reason it happened at all is because their government created the conditions that allowed it.

Source: ‘Death to Arabs’: Chaos erupts in Jerusalem after far-right march | Middle East Eye

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