Protests in Mea Shearim Against Zionism

We're in Mea Shearim, a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in the very center of Jerusalem,

which has been turned into a kind of a ghetto

by the Israeli state.

The core of the population of Mea Shearim

lived here since before the Zionist state.

A lot of them are very anti-Zionist.

Today there is a demonstration done at the same time

as Israel's Independence Day.

Jews are not Zionists because the Zionist ideology is not Jewish.

The Zionist ideology is against the Jewish beliefs.

Zionists are not Jews anymore.

Even if they were born as Jews,

they are not Jews anymore.

Of course we raise the Palestinian flag because, first of all,

it's a symbol that we have no war with them.

We are against the occupation that they have been going through.

We are like brothers with each other.

We understand that what they suffer is our suffering also.

Every spilled blood that we see with them is hurting our hearts,

especially when it comes from the Jewish nation's name.

They stole the Jewish nation's name, Israel,

and we are ashamed.

We are very ashamed that they do it in our name.

They have owned this land.

It's called Palestine.

They tried to remove the Palestinian name, the Palestinian tradition.

They stole the Jewish name and they steal the Palestinian land.

There is no freedom here.

There is no democracy like you see.

We cannot declare our opinions in public.

We cannot make a protest in public.

And I've personally been beaten today.

They just arrested a father and left his child in a stroller in the middle of the street alone.

We want the Palestinians to get back their lands

because we are not thieves.

We don't want anything to take out from them.

We want them to live peacefully and with freedom, with complete freedom.

No apartheid.

No apartheid state. We don't want it.