{"id":520,"date":"2026-05-15T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:51:16","slug":"some-hide-their-crosses-jerusalem-nun-attack-highlights-israels-growing-anti-christian-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Some hide their crosses\u2019: Jerusalem nun attack highlights Israel\u2019s growing anti-Christian problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-tms-ad-status=\"idle\" data-tms-ad-container class=\"o-ad-container o-ad-container--banner-top o-ad-container--with-shimmer o-ad-container--with-background\">\n<div class=\"o-ad-container__content o-ad-container__content--report-enabled\">\n<div class=\"o-ad-container__label m-block-ad__label--report-enabled\">\n                    <span class=\"o-ad-container__label__text\">Advertising<\/span><br \/>\n                                            <button title=\"Report this ad\" class=\"o-ad-container__content__report-link\" data-tms-ad-report><br \/>\n                        <\/button>\n                                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-ad-sponsoring\" data-tms-ad-type=\"sponsoring\" data-tms-ad-status=\"disabled\">\n<div class=\"o-ad-sponsoring__wrapper\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content t-content--article\" id=\"main-content\">\n<div class=\"t-content__above-sidebar\">\n<h1 class=\"t-content__title a-page-title\">\u2018Some hide their crosses\u2019: Jerusalem nun attack highlights Israel\u2019s growing anti-Christian problem<\/h1>\n<div class=\"m-master-tag\">\n<div class=\"a-tag-cartouche\">Long read<\/div>\n<div class=\"a-tag-section\">\n                                    Middle East\n                            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">\n                                        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 \u2013 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.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: <time datetime=\"2026-05-15T15:38:32+00:00\">15\/05\/2026 &#8211; 17:38<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-reading-time__icon\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><br \/>\n    7 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                            <span class=\"a-master-button__label\">Share<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__authors\">\n<div class=\"m-from-author\">\n                    <span class=\"m-from-author__by-label\"><br \/>\n                By:<br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"m-author\">\n<div class=\"m-author__name\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/louise-nordstrom\/\" title=\"Louise NORDSTROM\" class=\"m-author__name__title\"><br \/>\n                                Louise NORDSTROM<br \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-item-image m-item-image--16x9 m-item-image--has-caption\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/f4680f48-505d-11f1-b47a-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/AP321813780116.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"An Orthodox Christian woman holds a cross during Good Friday processions in Jerusalem's Old City, in May, 2013\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"a-img \"><figcaption class=\"a-figcaption\">\n                <span>File photo: An Orthodox Christian woman holds a cross during Good Friday processions in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City in May 2013.<\/span>                <span>\u00a9 Bernat Armangue, AP\/ File<\/span>            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__body u-clearfix\">\n<p>On Wednesday evening, Yisca Harani spent several hours at a local police station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a report about a \u2018spitter\u2019,\u201d the Jewish activist said over a patchy phone line from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/jerusalem\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Jerusalem<\/a>, explaining that a Christian monk had been the latest target of such humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Harani, who heads the <a href=\"https:\/\/report-hotline-jlm.co.il\/\" target=\"_blank\">Religious Freedom Data Center<\/a> (RFDC) \u2013 an Israeli NGO that documents anti-Christian incidents and help victims report them to authorities \u2013 said there are so many cases now that she and her roughly 100 volunteers are kept busy \u201c24\/7\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most common is spitting,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it can also be graffiti on [Christian] signs with crosses on them, vandalism or different forms of harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators, she said, belong to a very tiny part of Israel\u2019s population of 10 million \u2013 \u201cmost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/jews\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Jews<\/a> would never do this\u201d \u2013 and mainly identify as ultra-Orthodox, Shas-style Sephardis or nationalist religious Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all wear kippah [traditional Jewish skullcaps]. I\u2019ve not seen one secular Jew misbehave toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/christians\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Christians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, her organisation recorded 107 incidents. Last year, the number jumped to <a href=\"https:\/\/report-hotline-jlm.co.il\/reports\" target=\"_blank\">181<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t a month that goes by without at least ten incidents reported,\u201d she said, but noted that in reality, the numbers are likely much higher. This is in part because victims either do not know how to report, or do not want to \u201cmake a fuss\u201d over less serious offences like spitting.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the spitting?<\/h2>\n<p>The question of spitting takes us centuries back through the history of Jewish-Christian relations, throughout which Jews, as a minority, suffered immensely at the hands of a Christian majority \u2013 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">anti-Semitism<\/a> and persecution to attempts at extermination.<\/p>\n<p>In the 11<sup>th<\/sup> century, Jews (then being persecuted during the Crusades) were accused of spitting at the cross in an act of religious contempt, Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-spitting-christians-jerusalem-not-criminal-ben-gvir\" target=\"_blank\">Times of Israel blog post<\/a>.\u00a0Some Jewish communities then adopted this gesture to show resistance and defiance. Over time, \u201cthe spitting Jew\u201d became a negative stereotype for Jews.<\/p>\n<p>When the state of Israel was created in 1948, Jews became a majority group for the first time, with Christians in the minority, and the spitting became even more symbolic.<\/p>\n<p>Goshen-Gottstein wrote that the problem is that some insular Jewish communities have not followed modern developments in the Christian world, and do not know that many churches have since revised their theologies, legitimised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/judaism\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Judaism<\/a>, issued apologies and are even fighting anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spitters and attackers are, of course, clueless,\u201d Goshen-Gottstein said.<\/p>\n<p>Far-right politician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/itamar-ben-gvir\/\" target=\"_self\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a>\u00a0added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-spitting-christians-jerusalem-not-criminal-ben-gvir\" target=\"_blank\">fuel to the fire in 2023<\/a>, when he, as Israel\u2019s sitting national security minister, told Army Radio that spitting at Christians was not a crime, and that not everything \u201cjustifies an arrest\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-em-image\">\n<figure class=\"m-item-image m-item-image--original m-item-image--has-caption\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/81e157e2-5060-11f1-a762-005056a90284\/w:980\/AP26134583400475.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish ultra-nationalists celebrate at Damascus Gate during the annual Jerusalem Day march commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, ion May 14, 2026\" style=\"max-height:567px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"a-img \"><figcaption class=\"a-figcaption\">\n                <span>Jewish ultra-nationalists celebrate at Damascus Gate during the annual Jerusalem Day march commemorating Israel&#8217;s capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, May 14, 2026.<\/span>                <span>\u00a9 Leo Correa, AP<\/span>            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018Think twice about going out\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The brutal physical assault of a French Dominican nun in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/east-jerusalem\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">East Jerusalem<\/a> on April 28, however, sent new shock waves throughout the Christian community. In CCTV footage capturing the attack, an Orthodox man is seen running up behind a Christian nun, shoving her to the ground, and returning to kick her once before bystanders intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\"><span class=\"a-read-more__label\">Watch more<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CRXZMrkGWcM\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"a-read-more__link\"> Anti-Christian aggression on the rise in Jerusalem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most extreme case we\u2019ve seen. During the three years since I founded RFDC, there may have been three or four physical interactions,\u201d Harani said, but stressed that none of them had been this violent.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, her NGO has been called upon to \u201cescort\u201d Christians through Jerusalem. While accompanying the faithful, the RFDC volunteers keep their phone cameras open at all times, ready to film any potential assaults they may be targeted by.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/knesset\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Knesset<\/a> held a special committee session on the attack against the nun and the way Christians are being treated. Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0firmly condemned the incident, but critics say the meeting was mainly called because the footage went viral, embarrassing the Israeli government on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the Christian representatives present at the hearing recounted routine harassment on the streets of Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-politics\/2026-05-13\/ty-article\/.premium\/jlem-church-leaders-urge-knesset-to-address-hate-crimes-against-christians\/0000019e-2063-d907-ad9e-3eff1c420000?fromLogin=mailNotValidated\" target=\"_blank\">the Haaretz newspaper reported<\/a>, and cited incidents in which Israeli security forces had prevented devotees access to prayer sites or in which Christians had been the victims of stone-throwing or kicking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call on the Israeli government to call these acts by their name: hate crimes,&#8221; Father Aghan Gogchian, the chancellor of the Armenian Patriarchate,\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<h2>Neighbours staging protests<\/h2>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.gov.il\/en\/mediarelease\/Pages\/2025\/Christmas-2025-Christians-in-Israel.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Central Bureau of Statistics<\/a>, some 185,000 Christians were registered in Israel at the end of 2025, accounting for about 1.9 percent of the population. Most of these are Arab Christians \u2013 a minority that is often overlooked, rarely talked about and whose Arabic heritage makes them especially vulnerable in a Jewish state like Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Hana Bendcowsky, program director of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations at the interreligious Rossing Center, said there had been incidents where local demonstrations had been staged in front of Arab Christian homes because their Jewish neighbours did not want them living there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe because they are Christian, maybe because they are Arabs. It is not clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another group that is regularly targeted are those who wear visible Christian symbols or religious clothing, such as pilgrims, nuns and monks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cEvery priest you talk to will tell you that spitting is almost a daily experience,\u201d Bendcowsky said.<\/p>\n<p>Some, especially after the attack on the nun, have therefore become more careful in showing their religious affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hide their crosses in their pockets and so on, or avoid wearing their habits when they go to certain places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Father David Neuhaus SJ, who has lived in Jerusalem for almost five decades and for several years served as superior of the Jesuit community at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, said that after the assault on the nun \u201cthere are people who think twice before going out unless it is absolutely necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although he refuses to give in to the fear himself, he said: \u201cThere is now an awareness that you need to look around you, think about where you are going, think about how you dress. There is a feeling that at any moment your life could suddenly take a turn for the worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018To be Israeli is to be Jewish\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>All three interviewees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/france-24\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">FRANCE 24<\/a> spoke to said the intolerance against non-Jews in Israel \u2013 whether Christians, Muslims or others \u2013 has spiked in recent years, fuelled by new government policies, war, and of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/october-7-attacks\/\" target=\"_self\">October 7, 2023<\/a> terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Father Neuhaus said it did not help that Israel has been an extremely militarised state from the start and has been \u201cbuilt on settler colonialism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a very violent society,\u201d he said. \u201cTake a bus, take a train, walk down the street \u2013 everyone is armed. That already is an incredible violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-em-image\">\n<figure class=\"m-item-image m-item-image--original m-item-image--has-caption\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/720aa73e-5050-11f1-a892-005056bf30b7\/w:980\/AP26134397961145.jpg\" alt=\"An armed Israeli walks in Jerusalem's Old City, ahead of a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, on May 14, 2026\" style=\"max-height:567px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"a-img \"><figcaption class=\"a-figcaption\">\n                <span>An armed Israeli walks in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City ahead of a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, on May 14, 2026.<\/span>                <span>\u00a9 Ohad Zwigenberg, AP<\/span>            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harani, of RFDC, said the 2018 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rimap.unhcr.org\/node\/66022\" target=\"_blank\">Nation-State Law<\/a>\u201d marked the real first turn for the worse in Israel\u2019s religious intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis law is the epitome of this whole psychosis: that to be Israeli is to be Jewish \u2013 religiously and nationalistically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law defined Israel as national home of the Jewish people and encouraged the use of Jewish symbols in Israeli society. Critics say this quickly forged a climate of religious nationalism and contributed to religious minorities feeling increasingly marginalised.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Harani said Netanyahu\u2019s government shows \u201cabsolute disregard for certain behaviours in the radical sector. Their behavior is tolerated, and therefore gives them the green light. It\u2019s passive encouragement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, she said, \u201cthey [the perpetrators] are becoming more and more audacious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Father Neuhaus agreed. \u201cWhen lower-level incidents like spitting are ignored, the message is that violence is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trauma, anger and frustration linked to the October 7 attacks\u00a0led some insular Jewish groups to start \u201cdehumanising the other\u201d, Bendcowsky said. She pointed particularly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20260322-west-bank-settler-violence-gaza-strikes-palestinians-killed\" target=\"_self\">uptick in settler violence<\/a> against Palestinians in the occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/west-bank\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">West Bank<\/a>. She noted\u00a0that many of them are either in denial of, or have no knowledge of, the death and pain Israel has brought to civilians in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/gaza-strip\/\" target=\"_self\">Gaza<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/lebanon\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Lebanon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\"><span class=\"a-read-more__label\">Watch more<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/middle-east-matters\/20260319-settler-violence-surges-in-the-west-bank\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\">Settler violence surges in the West Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what we see with Christians is just one symptom of the general atmosphere,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However terrible the aggression on the nun might have been, Harani said it did serve at least one meaningful 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