Ugliest Act of Hatred at the Jerusalem Flag March

On the fringes of the Jerusalem Day Flag March, with its abundance of ugly violence and incitement to racism, there was one small, not very important incident. At the Damascus Gate Plaza, one of the young marchers jumped at a young Palestinian journalist, grabbed her cellphone and fled the scene to the sound of encouragement and merriment from his friends. As was the case in the dozens of other offenses perpetrated that day by Jews in Jerusalem, the police turned a blind eye.The incident was recorded from a number of angles, so there could be no doubt regarding the identity of the thief and his guilt. For some reason I can’t explain, of all the acts of violence and hatred in Jerusalem that day, this particular one drove me crazy. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I have no complaints against the boy as an individual. Children his age are swept away by their friends into far worse acts.