New episode of
spitting on Christians
in the Old City of Jerusalem by two Orthodox Jews.
This was reported by Wadie Abunassar, spokesperson for the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land.
The spitting - according to the same source - was directed yesterday towards Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Dormition of Jerusalem.
The other Orthodox - according to Abunassar - instead insulted Jesus. The two, including a minor under 17, were stopped by the police.
Condemnation of the episode by the Tel Aviv government, but the PNA attacks, accusing far-right Israeli ministers of 'sowing hatred'.
Israeli Foreign Minister
Israel Katz
"strongly condemned the ugly acts against members of other religions."
"Once again - he reported - an ugly episode of spitting against Christian clerics in Jerusalem".
"Under the government of the State of Israel, all members of religions - he underlined - will be able to enjoy complete freedom of worship, as never before. As the prophet said: 'because my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'".
The
Palestinian Foreign Ministry
condemned the two Orthodox Jews who spat on a Christian priest in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday, also insulting Jesus. And it blamed "incitement" on the part of the far-right Israeli ministers
Itamar Ben Gvir
and
Bezalel Smotrich
as an expression of a "racist colonial culture" that "denies the existence of the other".
The ministry then argued that "settler militias" feel emboldened by a "sense of political and legal impunity" that encourages them to persist in "sowing hatred" and "provoking Palestinian citizens and members of other religions."
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