Left in Tel Aviv calls for recognition of Palestinian state

By JPOST.COM STAFF 
04/21/2011 17:30

Group of intellectuals, Israel Prize winners met by counter-protesters, chants of "traitors"; verbal altercations break out, police forced to separate groups; Barak calls for calm as country faces "fateful decision."

 

A group of left-wing intellectuals, among them 17 Israel Prize winners, gathered in front of Independence Hall on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Blvd. Thursday afternoon where they presented a document resembling the Israeli Declaration of Independence, albeit for a Palestinian state.

Counter-protesters, many carrying signs and shouting "traitors," gathered on the opposite side of the boulevard. Police were forced to physically separate the two sides.

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