Lehava Chairman Benzi Gupstein said on Thursday that “the police are waiting for us to shout ‘Death to the Arabs’ to arrest us. We won’t let them. But whoever beat us will get it.”
Arab social media on Thursday called for the Damascus Gate to be defended against “settler thugs.”
Shin Bet coordinators spoke with Arab activists in Jerusalem and warned them not to participate in the planned demonstration. Police on Thursday night prevented young Arabs from entering downtown Jerusalem and asked them to return to the eastern part of the city.
Police said they arrested four Arabs on suspicion of assaulting a Jewish passerby on the Jaffa Gate promenade.