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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
He was responding to an article showing Israelis parading down the street chanting "Death to Arabs," while Palestinians are forced to closed their shops to let the Israelis through while they "celebrate."
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The article you posted is about a parade of Israeli nationalists celebrating "Jerusalem Day" - the Israeli takeover of the entirety of Jerusalem about five decades ago. In the article, it specifically says that although vile things were being chanted, the Israeli police specifically forbade any violence or incitement of violence and arrested people for such crimes as "throwing objects".
In contrast, these parades were in support of murders, kidnappings, rape, and other similar crimes committed earlier this week, including against children, some of them featuring the still-bleeding bodies of their murder victims being carried around.
It's sort of like comparing a parade by the Westboro Baptist Church to... I dunno, I want to say Charlottesville but that doesn't remotely do it justice. These things are just not the same and there have been a ton of those types of false equivalencies thrown around despite people thanking posts imploring people not to fall into that trap.
EDIT: It's also worth noting that the Israeli high court has ruled that chanting "Death to Arabs" is illegal and can result in arrest... not that it helped in that instance, but it doesn't appear to be state-sanctioned behaviour, at least.