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Last update - 23:13 04/11/2006 Ultra-Orthodox protesters renew riots against gay pride march By Jonathan Lis, Yair Ettinger and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondents Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday evening against the upcoming gay pride march scheduled for next week in Jerusalem. The riots erupted in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Jerusalem District Police Commander Major General Ilan Franco is slated to announce on Sunday whether the police will allow the parade to take place. France said Thursday that the violence surrounding the event will not affect the decision. Advertisement Demonstrators planted spikes in several main roads. Four vehicles were damaged and several streets had to be closed. Rioters also set fire to trash receptacles, and called out to neighborhood residents, via speakers affixed to cars, to come out of their homes and join the demonstration. Police found a mock bomb at a gas station in Jerusalem. The attached note condemned the upcoming gay pride parade. Jerusalem City Council member Sa'ar Netanel said Saturday "if the parade will be canceled and the ultra-Orthodox terror will prevail, we should expect riots by ultra-Orthodox on other issues in Jerusalem and across the country." Anti-gay pride parade posters in J'lem slam 'Nazi' police officer On Friday, Police launched a search for anti-gay pride parade protesters who put up posters in Jerusalem comparing a senior police official to a Nazi officer. Written as a mock obituary, the posters were found in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim and claimed Jerusalem District Police commander, Major General Ilan Franco, was the grandson of the commander of the Treblinka extermination camp and that they would share the same fate. "Ilan Franco, the grandson of Franco Schmirt, the SS commander of the Treblinka extermination camp, your fate will be the same as that of your Nazi grandfather and thus your memory will live in infamy. Go back to Nazi Germany," the poster read. Earlier on Friday, a group of Ultra-Orthodox protestors rioted at the Shabbat Square in Jerusalem against the gay pride parade slated to take place in the city next week. The rioters blocked off the square and torched garbage cans, and police forces were called to the scene. Also on Friday, the Jerusalem Magistrates Court decided to delay by three days the release of four Ultra-Orthodox Jews suspected or rioting and attacking policemen on Thursday. Major General Ilan Franco, Jerusalem district police commander, on Thursday said that the decision on whether to allow a gay pride parade to go ahead in Jerusalem next week will not be affected by the recent clashes in the capital. On Thursday, A police officer and a Haaretz photographer were wounded in a confrontation between ultra-Orthodox protesters and police forces in the capital, as demonstrations against the city's upcoming gay pride parade raged for the third consecutive day. "We are first of all concerned with dispersing the protests, maintaining routine in the city and keeping roads open, and we're not yet concerning ourselves with the decision," Franco said. The police officer sustained a head injury and the photographer, Tomer Applebaum, was lightly wounded when a stone hit him above the eye. Parade organizers, for their part, have criticized the police's policy of telling the media on several occasions that their decision on whether to allow the march will depend on the information they receive about plans to disrupt the event. The organizers say that this message has led anti-parade activists to believe that by threatening violence, they can convince the police to call off the march. Some 1,000 ultra-Orthodox protesters took part in Thursday's demonstration against the parade, which is scheduled for next Friday. At the end of the demonstration, the participants marched Jerusalem's Bar-Ilan Street in an attempt to block traffic. The police deployed officers on horseback to prevent the roads from being blocked. The organizers of the gay pride march met on Thursday evening with several rabbis at the home of city council member Nir Barkat. The meeting was initiated in order to calm the hostility between the two sides. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Double agent U.S. arrests American over suspected nuclear espionage for Israel. Conspiracy theory Al-Qaida: Hezbollah started rumor that Israel planned 9/11   1.   Jewish Hizbollah 19:40  |  Secular Israelis 03/11/06   2.   Find a JOB 19:43  |  Mike Brown 03/11/06   3.   Multiculturalism Unites Jewish&Muslim Fundamentalists 20:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/11/06   4.   Force 20:25  |  George 03/11/06   5.   why have a parade? 20:26  |  Ethan Miner 03/11/06   6.   This is reason to protest? 20:40  |  J 03/11/06   7.   Have they been Israeli-Arabs... 20:56  |  Rami 03/11/06   8.   Welcome to Israel. Home of Democracy 20:56  |  Rab 03/11/06   9.   Leaving Israel 21:10  |  Michael 03/11/06   10.   Why have a parade? 21:13  |  MBH 03/11/06   11.   Haredi Fury 21:21  |  Spyglass 03/11/06   12.   Ashamed 21:31  |  Michael 03/11/06   13.   Provocation: Jews on Temple Mt., IAF over Leb., Homo Parade in Jm 21:36  |  Jerusalem Boy 03/11/06   14.   Proud of What? 21:45  |  Jay 03/11/06   15.   Jerusalem is gay 21:49  |  AV 03/11/06   16.   Jerusalem vomits out those who incite hate 21:51  |  AV 03/11/06   17.   Gay-pride in Toronto is fun even if you`re straight 21:55  |  James 03/11/06   18.   Rab, what are you talking about? 21:59  |  Jake 03/11/06   19.   No they are Jewish Taliban! 22:11  |  the pope 03/11/06   20.   TO RAB , meantime in England... 22:12  |  gabriel 03/11/06   21.   to Ethan Miner 22:17  |  the pope 03/11/06   22.   to Mike of Miami 22:22  |  the pope 03/11/06   23.   Reason to have a march. 22:26  |  Marisa Elana 03/11/06   24.   #8 Rab Welcome to Great Britain home of democracy 22:37  |  Yonatan 03/11/06   25.   Jake and you have sunk to the kahanist from moldova #18 22:48  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/11/06   26.   Jerusalem is gay 22:54  |  iLetzter 03/11/06   27.   Jewish Taliban 22:58  |  Danny 03/11/06   28.   dveykuth !??????????? 23:14  |  Akiva Patysh 03/11/06   29.   ...and refuse to defend... 23:17  |  Marisa Elana 03/11/06   30.   to michael 23:19  |  Dave 03/11/06   31.   to Danny 23:44  |  the pope 03/11/06   32.   Sullivan hails Sharon`s "death throes" 00:10  |  Jake 04/11/06   33.   SULLIVAN 01:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/11/06   34.   gay soldier boy 02:05  |  avraham 04/11/06   35.   Stand up for tolerance. March no matter your sexual orientation. 04:24  |  Timothy 04/11/06   36.   To Rab 04:28  |  Mick 04/11/06   37.   Gay Parade !!! 08:44  |  Nothing... 04/11/06   38.   25# 09:24  |  From the Moon 04/11/06   39.   View from a bystander on secular and religious Israeli`s 11:48  |  Mark B. 04/11/06   40.   di ingantsn fromen 13:44  |  bielefeld 04/11/06   41.   The double standards don`t amaze me anymore Rami 13:50  |  Marlene 04/11/06   42.   Straight Pride Parade 00:18  |  TzviN 05/11/06   43.   Gay march through the Gaza Strip 00:30  |  Joe 05/11/06   44.   charedi hatred 01:15  |  miriam sarah 05/11/06   45.   Just a small footnote 01:43  |  dihirod 05/11/06   46.   Gay bashers often struggle with gay impluses 01:49  |  Timothy 05/11/06   47.   response to marlene 01:54  |  land lover 05/11/06   48.   response to marlene 02:01  |  land lover 05/11/06   49.   Something`s wrong with Eyda Haredis! 02:13  |  Dovy 05/11/06   50.   haredim 04:26  |  moe 05/11/06   51.   haredim 04:34  |  moe 05/11/06   52.   To Dave 04:46  |  Tony 05/11/06   53.   These same secular Jews then wonder how G-d can allow Destruction 05:30  |  Ben 05/11/06   54.   ALL ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW. 11:18  |  H.H.M 05/11/06   55.   Use live ammo to stop the riots 13:54  |  David Teich 05/11/06   56.   cipora cohn re zion living forever 19:42  |  quizzical 05/11/06   57.   I SUPPORT THE HAREDIM 22:39  |  Stacey 05/11/06   58.   Stand up Israel against this abomination 03:24  |  Me 06/11/06   59.   gays 00:20  |  Will 17/11/06   60.   gay pride march 16:58  |  Ethan 23/04/08

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