The Jerusalem Post
Israeli settler, far-right activist: ‘Spitting on Christians is a Jewish custom’
OCTOBER 3, 2023
“The custom of spitting near churches or monasteries is an ancient Jewish tradition,” far-right activist Elisha Yered wrote on Monday in response to a video of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christian pilgrims.
The former spokesperson for MK Limor Son Har-Melech, of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, said that there is an even a blessing that Jews are supposed to say when seeing a church: “Blessed is He who has patience for those who violate His will,” which Yered described as a “blessing that praises God for not immediately punishing idol worshipers for their wicked deeds.” [worshiping Jesus is idolatry, according to the Talmud, which says Jesus is boiling in excrement in hell – ed.]
Orthodox Jews spit at Christian pilgrims
Yered made the comments as, amid Sukkot celebrations, Orthodox Jews spat on and shouted at a group of Christian pilgrims who were walking in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday. …
Tour guide, author, and journalist Robby Berman corroborated Yered’s statement in an interview with Maariv. He said he had witnessed numerous embarrassing incidents involving Orthodox Jews who spat on or harassed Christian believers and tourists.
“My role is to prevent such acts,” he told Maariv. “Unfortunately, it happens regularly every day.”
He said that once he asked a 10-year-old ultra-Orthodox child why he spat on Christian and the response was that it was [Talmudic – ed.] “religious law.”
Over the past several months, a number of anti-Christian incidents … chanting “Missionaries, go home” as evangelical Christians attempted to celebrate Pentecost and pray for peace in Jerusalem.
In November, an IDF soldier spat at the Armenian archbishop and other Christians during a procession in the Old City. In December, the Maronite community center in Ma’alot-Tarshiha suffered vandalism, with the culprits still unidentified, among other incidents.
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