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To understand how Israeli society has lost ground against its racist elements, one needs to understand one of the Jerusalem Day chants: “Shuafat is on fire.” This is a reference to the brutal 2014 murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian resident of the Shuafat neighborhood of East Jerusalem who was burned alive by Jewish racists
On Sunday, that bigotry was on full display, as clusters of participants chanted slogans like “Death to Arabs”
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