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'We are the men of Mohammed Deif': Israeli flag burned in Amsterdam protest

A masked man wearing a keffiyeh and what appeared to be a military plate carrier raised a burning Israeli flag while other protesters chanted "long live Palestine."

|ByMICHAEL STARR
An Israeli flag was burned during a pre-Land Day anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam on Saturday, according to a video published on social media by Week for Palestine Netherlands.
PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstrators burn a US flag on the day of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, on Capitol Hill, last month.

The implications behind burning the US flag at anti-Israel protests - opinion

For many decades, the West has had the privilege of forgetting the well from which it springs and taking for granted the intellectual and cultural skeleton upon which it rests.

|ByLIZA ASHLEY
Baruch Marzel and Right-wing activists protest near Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem Old City on January 26, 2023.

Israeli arrested for burning flag in response to Arab League lawmaker

The suspect, in his 20s, was reportedly intent on burning the flag as a response to a Jordanian representative of the Arab League Khalil Atiya burning a handmade Israeli flag.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iranians burn an Israeli flag during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, in Tehran, Iran May 7, 2021.

Iranian man ironically catches fire while burning an Israeli flag - Watch

A video shows the man lifting a burning Israeli flag and attempting to wave it, before a sudden burst of wind causes the fire to quickly spread down the pole and to his clothes.

|ByTOBIAS SIEGAL

Iran official to students: Burn Israeli flags at home this year due to COVID

The website also features competitions ‘Why Down with the USA?’ and ‘Message to American Soldiers,’ for which students can enter drawings, essays, voice recordings and video clips.

NOVEMBER 3, 2020
People shout slogans against Israel while burning a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest against Trump's Jerusalem declaration, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo, Egypt December 7, 2017.

Iranian factory makes Israeli and American flags to burn

The factory produces about 2,000 US and Israeli flags a month in its busiest periods, and more than 1.5 million square feet of flags a year.

JANUARY 30, 2020
ByREUTERS
Iranian workers collect U.S. flags after making them at a large flag factory which creates U.S. and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn in Khomein City, Iran January 28, 2020

Germany's Left Party blocks ban on burning of Israeli flag

The party claimed that a ban would contravene free speech.

JANUARY 19, 2020
Israeli flag being burned.

Germany will ban burning of Israeli and other state flags

In December, 2017, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff called for a change of the law in the Federal Republic to prohibit the burning of the Israeli flag.

JANUARY 13, 2020
People shout slogans against Israel while burning a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest against Trump's Jerusalem declaration, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo, Egypt December 7, 2017.

Palestinians prepare to burn Israeli flags on third weekend of protests

IDF forces were preparing for the protests on Friday, reports said.

APRIL 13, 2018
ByYASSER OKBI/MAARIV
A Palestinian protester burns a replica Israeli flag as another holds a Palestinian flag during clashes with the Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 18, 2015.

Envoy to Berlin urges Germany to outlaw burning of Israeli flag

Massive anti-Israel protests unfolded in Berlin after the US government on December 6 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

DECEMBER 16, 2017
People shout slogans against Israel while burning a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest against Trump's Jerusalem declaration, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo, Egypt December 7, 2017.