'Gingrich gave the histories of the ancient and modern roots of the ritual pilgrimage, and described today’s version:

Each year the Festival is celebrated in a similar fashion, by a pedestrian pilgrimage through the streets of Jerusalem to the Western Wall. … During this last week, today’s generation of Jews made a similar pilgrimage through the streets of Jerusalem, knowing that the freedom that allows them to visit their holiest sites is more endangered at this moment in history than at any time since that Shavuot morning four and a half decades ago.

But, as Alex Kane points out, what Gingrich doesn’t mention is that the marchers through Jerusalem threatened the city’s Arab residents. The nationalist parades passed through Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem at all hours throughout the night. During the afternoon, parked in front of the a neighborhood mosque in Sheikh Jarrah, the demonstrators repeated such charming chants as “may your village burn,” “Mohammad is dead,” and “death to leftists” in Hebrew. The rowdy crowd also chanted “slaughter the Arabs” in Arabic.'

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