This year, Jerusalem Day fell on Naksa Day (the anniversary of the occupation). I found this poster, from a leftist group in the early 80s, a few weeks earlier:
“Just don’t say you didn’t know!”
15 years of occupation 5.6.82.
The Israeli Committee for Solidarity with Birzeit pic.twitter.com/S1nP61UlRx— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
And then Jerusalem Day, 2016. We started in Silwan, with another authors group.
Deep inside Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/AtQWAAd3DY
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Settler tour in the middle of Silwan. #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/KvdroX0ZSe
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Al-Bustan, Silwan, East Jerusalem, where hundreds are threatened with demolition #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/LnvpzjJcEE
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Silwan: The Abu Nab family was evicted in October, 2015, on the basis of Jewish pre-1948 documents. #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/HppZ4sHNyi
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Battan al-Hawa, Silwan, where 55 families are threatened w eviction on the basis of bigoted laws #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/GguOxPEEDW
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
As an Israeli, I cannot be proud of this flag waving on top of a stolen Palestinian house in Silwan #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/h4kHpLp2oU
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Zuheir Rajabi, activist from Batan al-Hawa, Silwan, tells of community's struggle against displacement #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/AuWkcSCpor
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Zuheir Rajabi of Silwan, speaking to authors @arnonyy, @lorraineadams & Lars Saabye Christensen. #btswrites pic.twitter.com/sxN58449aQ
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Then we went to the “City of David” settlement, in Silwan, where I took the group around and reminded them of the state of the “Left” in the State of the Jews:
Oh, and what does good old "Left Wing" "Opposition Leader" Isaac Herzog have to say about the settlement in Silwan? pic.twitter.com/6JU44WGs8X
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
And then the Muslim Quarter…
Israeli youth chanting religious songs in the middle of the Muslim Quarter. #JerusalemDay is just beginning… :/ pic.twitter.com/RAfFw2ca6I
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
"This place is mistakenly called the Muslim Quarter," says the group leader. #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/hfZ0Bt4uw1
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Israeli police telling Palestinian merchants they have to close up and leave to make room for #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/6ot1bZqVqF
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Palestinian woman forced by Israeli police to take her vegetables and leave the Damascus Gate area #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/9ww6jgLg8b
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Shopkeeper is putting tape over the locks so the marchers don't seal his locks, as they did last yr. #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/hP0fm3FCnD
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
And then we saw small children at the Damascus Gate wearing awful stickers:
Sticker on some of the kids' shirts: "There is no coexistence with them. Transfer now." #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/PpJW2odkT2
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
And on others: "Kahana was right." Lehava. "free the Temple Mount." #JerusalemDay pic.twitter.com/U8HcXiLp3e
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 5, 2016
Then we left. Later, I read this excellent analysis by Orly Noy:
Israel's extremist settlers are aiming for the mainstream: https://t.co/tBKeab8hzx via @972mag pic.twitter.com/e5S3Kgovdr
— Edo Konrad (@edokonrad) June 6, 2016
The Leftern Wall 