Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre

 

From Communist Party of Israel

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Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre

 

"I was here three days ago, in the middle of the night – a very hard and harsh visit" said Hadash Knesset Member and Tel Aviv mayoral candidate Dov Khenin, at the Jewish-Arab rally held by Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and the Communist Party of Israel this morning (Tuesday, October 14) at the Acre Esplanade. "I was here, in the [predominantly Arab-inhabited] Old City of Acre, and that was heart-warming. But I was on that night also in other parts of this city, in the Eastern Neighborhood, and that was frightening and disgusting. The police first did not let me go in there, they said it was 'a closed area'. A 'Closed Area' – in fact, an area where mobs were rampaging in the streets, wildly hunting for Arabs to harm".