https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sUJrXNCfUrk
This is just an example.
Would this mean everyone is represented by the people spitting on christians? Of course not.
BUT, and there is an interesting but, the people that are spitting on christians are a protected category that is completely subsidised by the governement to just perform religious duties.
It's impossible to separate israeli identity from its jewish identity when laws like this exist.
All the sources to check my statements for factuality.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ing-by-christians-in-jerusalem-sparks-outrage
Further adding to the outrage, Elisha Yered, an ultranationalist settler leader and former adviser to a lawmaker in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, defended the spitters, arguing that spitting at Christian clergy and at churches was an “ancient Jewish custom”.
“Perhaps under the influence of western culture we have somewhat forgotten what Christianity is,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I think millions of Jews who suffered in exile from the Crusades … will never forget.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-ultraorthodox-economy-idUSTRE73D25W20110414/
This is just an example.
Would this mean everyone is represented by the people spitting on christians? Of course not.
BUT, and there is an interesting but, the people that are spitting on christians are a protected category that is completely subsidised by the governement to just perform religious duties.
It's impossible to separate israeli identity from its jewish identity when laws like this exist.
All the sources to check my statements for factuality.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ing-by-christians-in-jerusalem-sparks-outrage
Further adding to the outrage, Elisha Yered, an ultranationalist settler leader and former adviser to a lawmaker in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, defended the spitters, arguing that spitting at Christian clergy and at churches was an “ancient Jewish custom”.
“Perhaps under the influence of western culture we have somewhat forgotten what Christianity is,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I think millions of Jews who suffered in exile from the Crusades … will never forget.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-ultraorthodox-economy-idUSTRE73D25W20110414/
That sect of Judaism seems my sect(reform) to be invalid and heretical. They also discriminate against converts from less observant sects because they deem those conversions invalid since they don’t adhere to haredi standards.