For Second Straight Year, Marchers Chant Anti-Arab Slogans During Jerusalem Day

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3. Mount of Olives Community Suffers Big Jerusalem Day Attack

A Jerusalem Day attack on Jews near the community of Maale HaZeitim in the Arab Ras al Amoud neighborhood has increased tension between Jews and Muslims in the region, amid intensified demands from Jewish residents that Jerusalem police forces crack down on threats to security.

At approximately 10pm on Wednesday night, as the music of the celebrated flag-dancing “Rikudegalim” festivities in Jerusalem’s Old City reverberated on the Mount of Olives, a family returning from Jerusalem Day celebrations was brutally attacked in their car by 5-7 Arab men throwing large pieces of stone and firing firecrackers at the vehicle from the traffic circle preceding the entrance to Maale HaZeitim. Most of the men wore kefiyyehs and other face coverings.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/jews-of-maale-hazeitim-decry-security-in-wake-of-major-jerusalem-day-attack/2012/05/21/