Several thousand gathered in Place de la République in Paris, France to protest the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, defying a state ban on the demonstration.
Protesters chanted “Israel is an assassin, Holland is an accomplice” and “we are all Palestinians,” and some were seen gesturing the quenelle, a reverse Nazi-salute, AFP reported.
Palestinian supporters decided to defy the ban and hold the protest as planned.
Earlier, France’s interior minister called on the protest’s organizers to observe the order, fearing anti-Semitic violence.
Bernard Cazeneuve made his public appeal shortly before Saturday’s demonstration in Paris was to start. Hours earlier, the Council of State, France’s top administrative body, ruled the protest ban was legal.
A court had ruled likewise, but organizers said they still planned to hold the protest.
France has Western Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations.
Source: Haaretz