Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is in the United States, speaking at different universities. During an address he was giving on Wednesday, 27 Adar-II in San Francisco University, dozens of pro-Palestinian protestors wearing kufiyahs, waving PLO flags and carrying megaphones interrupted his address. They heckled him and shouted calls in support of resuming the intifada.
Shouting “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” they called for “an end to the occupation”, accusing Israel of being a state of terrorism and apartheid. Police responded and the mayor insisted on continuing his address, undeterred by the interruption. He told his audience that Israel will continue to build and strengthen the nation and United Jerusalem and he will continue to voice the message anywhere he is invited to do so.
Barkat did voice his protest with the university president as well as the city’s mayor, questioning how they permit such incident from occurring against a democratic nation on a college campus.
The mayor will be in Columbia University in NYC on erev Shabbos 29 Adar-II.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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A wise man once wrote that Arabs know as much about secular democracies as Polynesians know about snow.
Simply repeat,
“You are fascists who support murder.”
“You teach your children to murder.”
“From river to sea, Palestine you’ll never see.”