The statement came as a response to a video circulating online of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City.
“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.”
He continued: “Perhaps under the influence of Western culture we have forgotten what Christianity is, but I think the millions of Jews who experienced the Crusades, the [Spanish] Inquisition, blood libel, and mass pogroms will never forget.”
Yered came under fire in August after he was arrested in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Palestinian man during riots in the village of Burka.
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A lot of bigotry is traditional, but that’s never an excuse.
Right wing fundamentalists are like aggressive cancer tumors to any civilized society, cut them out before they spread!
It’s just so particularly dumb.
Yeah bro, make the whole world your enemy, that’s a good plan for a state that requires alliances to survive.
Definitely very dumb but at least this extremist only represents a certain group of religious weirdos and not the majority in Israel.
I also have a tradition about being spat at, so that would be OK too using this silly argument.
Israeli here: we all hate this guy and know he’s a piece of shit
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be freeIsrael’s true hearth
