There is a growing problem of persecution of religious minorities in the areas occupied by Israel. The fact that Israeli police deny Palestinian Muslims access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Islamic Holy days is well-documented. However, Israel also denies Palestinian Christians access to their Holy Sites. Israel has announced that they will close East Jerusalem to all Arab Christians over the Easter holiday. Christians will not be allowed to worship where their religious figure, Jesus, was said to have been crucified according to Christian doctrine. There has also been a growing problem of Israeli Jewish youth spitting on and assaulting Christian pilgrims and priests as they walk down the streets. Sometimes these hoodlums will enter a church and assault the clergy and worshipers inside. The Israeli police, headed by genocidal Jewish-Supremacist Itaman Ben-Gvir, have turned a blind eye to these attacks. Last year, religious members of Netanyahu’s government proposed a law to punish those proselytizing any faith but Judaism with one year in prison. It was rejected, but their desire to eliminate all but Israeli Jews is real. Israeli ethno-nationalists make it clear that they despise anyone not of their faith, as well as many of their own co-religionists, and even each other. It is a nation built on hatred.
– – Comrade Toshiro
Featured article: “Palestinian Christians barred from Jerusalem’s Old City at Easter” (Al Jazeera): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/29/palestinians-barred-from-celebrating-easter-in-jerusalems-old-city
Featured image: Croos, Anton. Dome exterior view of Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 2008. File licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) license.
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