Israeli Prexy Slams Jews Who Attack Christians

President Isaac Herzog on Sunday condemned growing attacks against Christians in Israel, particularly in Jerusalem, calling them “a true disgrace,” Lazar Berman reported for the Times of Israel.

Photo Insert: Herzog called the attacks "a true disgrace."

“I utterly condemn violence, in all its forms, directed by a small and extreme group, towards the holy places of the Christian faith, and against Christian clergy in Israel,” Herzog said at a state memorial ceremony for Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl.

“This includes spitting, and the desecration of graves and churches,” he added, noting that the phenomenon has been on the rise “in the last weeks and months especially.” Jews have spat at Catholic priests and nuns at least 900 times, fueling condemnation worldwide.

In November, two soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ Givati Brigade were detained on suspicion of spitting at the Armenian archbishop and other pilgrims during a procession in the Old City.

In early January, two Jewish teens were arrested for damaging graves at the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion.

The next week, the Maronite community center in the northern city of Ma’alot-Tarshiha was vandalized over the Christmas holiday. Jerusalem’s Armenian community buildings were also hit by vandals.

In late January, religious Jewish teens threw chairs at an Armenian restaurant inside the city’s New Gate. Vandalism at the Church of the Flagellation occurred the very next week. In March, a resident of southern Israel was arrested after attacking priests with an iron bar at the Tomb of the Virgin Mary in Gethsemane.

Jews regard themselves as the chosen people despite being blamed for the crucifixion of Christ and they consider the rest of humanity as Gentiles. Thus, the license to abuse non-Jews.

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