Jerusalem nun attack highlights Israel’s growing anti-Christian problem
CCTV shows the assailant shoving the nun down and returning to kick her, as anti-Christian incidents in Jerusalem continue to rise.
- On May 1, footage surfaced from Jerusalem showing a 36-year-old Israeli man running behind a French nun, a researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, and shoving her violently to the ground.
- Yisca Harani, who heads the Religious Freedom Data Center , recorded 107 anti-Christian incidents in 2024, with spitting identified as the most common form of harassment targeting Christians in Israel.
- The 2018 'Nation-State Law' marked a turning point in religious intolerance, according to Harani; Father David Neuhaus, a Jesuit community leader, said residents now "think twice before going out unless it is absolutely necessary."
- National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir defended spitting at Christians as an "ancient custom" that does not "justify an arrest," normalizing harassment within Israel's government.
- Palestinian Christians, who comprised roughly 12% of the population before 1948, now account for about 1%, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, highlighting the community's demographic decline.
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‘Some hide their crosses’: Jerusalem nun attack highlights Israel’s growing anti-Christian problem
When a foreign nun was the victim of violent physical assault in Jerusalem last month, local activists and clergy say they were shocked but not surprised. In the past few years, anti-Christian incidents have surged in Israel – illustrating how a small minority of insular and mainly ultra-religious nationalist or ultra-Orthodox Jews are becoming increasingly emboldened to act out their anger and hate.
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The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the 'other' as subhuman. Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine.…
Israeli Settler to Stand Trial for Assault on French Nun in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM: An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel’s justice ministry said Thursday. The assault on the nun, a 48-year-old researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, occurred on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City. The suspect, named Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, is from a se…
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