SAN DIEGO — Scores of San Diegans gathered Saturday to support Palestinians and press for change in U.S. and Israeli policies.
Ringing cowbells and waving the familiar red and green flag of their relatives and ancestors, the crowd of demonstrators lined Sixth Avenue in the northwest corner of Balboa Park to protest actions by Israeli police, who stormed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem last Wednesday, striking worshippers with batons and deploying stun guns and rubber bullets to subdue the crowd.
“I’m here protesting the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people,” said Aydin Abudawas, a high school senior from Carlsbad who plans to study business when he leaves for college this fall.
