At yet another checkpoint to the Western Wall, settler spiritual leader Baruch Marzel rallied supporters to push through border police, spilling a nationalists’ parade into the quarter of the Jerusalem that houses Islam’s and Judaism’s blessed monuments.

“All they [Arabs] want is for our blood to flow,” said Roni, 20, an American-Israel follower of Marzel who asked for her family name not to be published. “The Temple Mount is the most holy place. That is the holy place, not the kotel [the Western Wall], it’s only an alternative,” she continued before rushing past security into the plaza border police were trying to close.