Mondoweiss: Are comparisons of South African apartheid and Israel useful?

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34. Jerusalem Day March Through Old City Passes in Relative Calm

Source: Haaretz, Jun 05, 2016

Annual parade in the Muslim Quarter took off without violent incidents, but chants of 'Mohammed is dead' still heard.

The Jerusalem Day flag march in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City took off in relative calm on Sunday evening, following earlier concerns of friction between Jewish revelers and local Arab residents. 

No altercations were reported, and a few Muslim-owned shops on Hagai Street, a main thoroughfare in the Old City, remained opened.

However, a few participants were heard shouting chants such as "the Temple will be built, the [Al-Aqsa] mosque will be burned," and "Mohammed is dead."

Participants in the flag march arrived at the march's starting point early evening on Sunday, a few hours after attempts to reroute the marchers away from the Old City's Muslim Quarter in a bid to lower tensions failed.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.723230

A reliable news source like Haaretz reports that the march was relatively calm. I'll go with Haaretz on this. Whether Mondoweiss or Avi Mayer is right when it comes to the translation of the Hebrew in the Mondoweiss clip is something I can't say. However, the marchers are all a bunch of racists, similar to PEGIDA in Germany. But Germany doesn't fund racist demonstrations like Israel does:

Netanyahu's Office a Big Funder of Controversial Jerusalem Day Flag March
Source: Haaretz, Jun 05, 2016

The Prime Minister’s Office, the Jerusalem municipality and a U.S. nonprofit group fund the controversial flag march that forms a major part of Jerusalem Day, according to the financial reports of Am Kalavi, an Israeli nonprofit group that organizes the annual parade.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.723196