It was Spring 2006, the second semester of the 2005-2006 academic year, when I was full-time at Sabancı University, but thanks to the enthusiastic approval and support of the late Tosun Terzioğlu, was also teaching part-time, three days a week (though on a voluntary basis) at Greece’s Panteion University.
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I don’t quite know how to describe the experience. I fell right smack in the middle of a Jerusalem Day parade. Still, it is different to witness it at first hand, up close and personal. Just this verdict by itself hints at what the atmosphere might be like. It was rejected, but the justices banned the use of slogans like “Death to the Arabs!” and charged the police with promptly arresting those that did so. Thus in May 2015, the Israeli High Court of Justice was petitioned to prevent the parade from marching through the Muslim Quarter.
Hence the parade is controversial even within Israeli civil society and in the eyes of the country’s oppositional democrats. But the big difference is that the Israeli right is scratching open a rather recent wound, barely half a century old, and doing it rather deliberately to spite the current, living, and quite sizable Arab population of Jerusalem. It is a bit reminiscent of the 29th May 1453 commemorations in Turkey. The crowd is massing on Jaffa Road prior to storming through the gates. The picture above was taken during the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2017. They are, in other words, ritually reconquering the city again and again. One of the various celebrations marking Yom Yerushalayim or Jerusalem Day is a flag-waving parade of conservative Jewish youth that is known as Rikud Hadegalim or “the Dance of the Flags.” Starting in Jerusalem’s new and modern districts, it enters the Old City through the Damascus Gate, winds its ostentatious, indeed provocative way through the Muslim Quarter, and concludes with mass prayers in front of the West Wall or the Wailing Wall. Ever since, 7th May has been an official Israeli holiday. Surely not coincidentally, it all started on Temple Mount with a crass intervention against Muslim worshippers in the Mescid-i Aksa - on the eve of Jerusalem Day.ĭuring the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized not only the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the entire West Bank, but also the Old City section of Jerusalem that since 1948 had been in Jordanian hands.
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