6. Thousands of pro-Gaza supporters gathered also on Saturday in Place de la Republique in Paris, France, to protest Israel’s Operation Protective Edge – in defiance of a legal ban on the rally. “Israel is an assassin, Holland is an accomplice,” they chanted. “We are all Palestinians.” Some gave the ‘quenelle’ – a reverse Nazi salute. Hundreds of these demonstrators then began to riot, hurling rocks and other objects at Paris police, who were forced to use tear gas to disperse the mob.
7. A smoke bomb was hurled from a house facing the street where some 5,000 pro-Israel demonstrators in Budapest, Hungary were holding a rally on Sunday, July 27. On the same day, counter-protesters held around 10 rallies with banners that read, ‘Down with Zionist colonialists’ and ‘Killers.’
8. A hatefest took place last Thursday at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where a mob of radical Islamists waving the black flag of ISIS were yelling ‘Kill, Kill, Kill the Jews.” They followed this chant with another: ‘Beware, O Jews, the army of Muhammad is coming!’ No arrests were made.
8. Also last Thursday, a radical Islamist at a pro-Gaza rally in Boston wearing a keffiya and a ‘Palestine’ shirt commented that pro-Israel supporters ‘are not here and they will not be here, Insha’Allah’ (God willing). ‘They’ll be back to the sea and this time Moses is not going to be here to open the sea. They better learn how to swim.’ With that, the man and the crowd around him began to chant, ‘Allah hu Akbar!’ (God is great)
The Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism contributed information to this article.
