Jerusalems Social Protest: Are You Serious??
Jerusalem’s part in tonight’s ‘March of the Million’ social protest was distinctly more social than protest.
Protesting in Jerusalem, beer in hand.
Very few people carried signs; the only flyers I saw being handed out were from the well-organized Arvut movement; the atmosphere was more social reunion than strident demonstration.
More Jerusalem demonstrators
Over the years I’ve been to dozens of rallies and demonstrations in the Kikar Paris area not far from the Prime Minister’s residence, and this was by far the most benign of any of them.
Sign reads: “Welfare State”
There was certainly a diverse crowd of Israelis who showed up (around 40,000, according to YNET–out of a general Jerusalem population of 800,000; approx. half of whom are Jews), but with the folk singers and the beer flowing, there was a distinct lack of revolutionary fervor.
Most people were hanging out with their friends, enjoying the music and the warm evening and by 10:30 p.m the Restobar and the Pizza place were the main attraction.
Restobar keeps demonstrators in
