Some 600 demonstrators marched by downtown Jerusalem on Friday for town’s seventh annual SlutWalk protesting rape tradition.
The protesters, primarily younger girls in their teenagers and twenties, paraded in numerous states of undress to make the purpose that ladies ought to be capable of put on no matter they need with out being s3xually harassed.
They carried hand-made indicators and shouted slogans similar to, “Don’t Rape,” “No means no,” and “Don’t tell us how to dress, tell men not to rape!!!”
The protesters gathered at Davidka Square at 11 a.m. and at midday started strolling down Jaffa Street the place they had been greeted by bemused onlookers.
In marked distinction to liberal Tel Aviv the place a comparable parade was held final month, Jerusalem is a conservative metropolis, with massive numbers of spiritual communities starting from Orthodox Jews to Muslims.
Protesters chant slogans as they march in the SlutWalk in central Jerusalem, on May 18, 2018 .(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A SlutWalk is a protest against those that clarify or excuse rape based mostly on a girl’s apparel or look. The first such protest came about in Toronto, Canada in April 2011, in response to a police officer’s suggesting that “women should avoid dressing like sluts” in order to keep away from being raped. Since then, SlutWalks have taken place in cities world wide and have broadened their protest scope to incorporate all sorts of s3xual assault and harassment, in addition to the prevalence of victim blaming.