Rallies expressing solidarity with the Israel Defense Forces and “a unified front” against the country’s detractors were held this week throughout Israel, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat.
The Im Tirtzu movement led a series of rallies June 1 at university campuses across the country, with hundreds of students taking part in demonstrations at Haifa’s Technion, the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba.
Students waved Israeli flags and held up signs reading, “We stand with the IDF” and “Peace activists don’t beat people with metal rods.”
Some 1,000 students rallied at Ben-Gurion University. One had a sign that read: “We came with paint guns and got lynched.”
In the evening June 1, similar pro-IDF rallies were held in Kiryat Shmona, Tiberias, Hadera, Afula, Beit She’an, Netanya, Tel Aviv, Gush Etzion, Jerusalem, Beersheba, Eilat and some 30 other locations.
In Jerusalem, nearly 100 people gathered at the city entrance, under the String Bridge, waving Israeli flags and signs reading, “We salute you [IDF]!” — jpost.com