Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid has denounced celebrations of Jerusalem Day, which took place a day earlier, Al Jazeera reports.
“Jerusalem Day was celebrated yesterday with a violent and degrading parade, with the singing of ‘may your village burn’ and mocking songs about the children who are dying in Gaza,” Lapid said in a post on X.
He questioned what a prominent rabbi from Israel’s founding days, the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, would have thought about the celebrations.
“Actually, we know what. He is, after all, the man who wrote: ‘Love for people should be alive in the heart of man … even towards peoples who are not from our world,’” Lapid added.
