Anti-Christianity in Israel Today Even in our era of ecumenical “tolerance, the Talmuds hatred of Christianity has not subsided in the hearts of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. Especially in the occupied territories, the admonitions of the Talmud to persecute Christians and dishonor the name and reputation of Jesus are taken very literally. Israel. Land of fanaticism, bigotry, hypocrisy, prejudice, psychopathy racism & hate !!! According to Dr. Israel Shahak, an Israeli citizen, former WW2 concentration camp inmate and founder of Israel’s Human Rights League, “Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, and especially on the crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, has been obligatory from around 200 A.D. for pious Jews…The increasing strength of the Jewish nation has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: the spitting on the cross for converts from Christianity to Judaism, organized in Kibbitz Sa’ad and financed by the Israeli government, is an act of traditional Jewish piety.” Shahak expands: “Pious Jews object to the international plus sign for it is a cross, and it may, in their opinion, influence little children to convert to Christianity. . . It would then be difficult to ‘educate’ them to spit on the cross. . . .In all Hebrew elementary schools (and now many high schools as well) the international plus sign has been forbidden.” 1 Orthodox religious authorities for the state of Israel also advocate burning the New Testament. “…No less a figure than Professor Yehoshaphat Harkabi, former head of Israeli military intelligence, has revealed the facts surrounding Israel’s official burning of the gospels so cherished by all Christians . . . General Harkabi writes: ‘Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, who is considered to be a moderate. . .(in 1979) issued a ruling that copies of the New Testament should be burned. This ruling did not remain a dead letter. An item in the newspaper Ma ‘ariv (14 June 1985) reported the burning of a copy of the New Testament found in the library of the Chief Educational officer of the Israeli army. . .’” 2 (Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, by Issa Nakhleh, p. 395) Five Years in Prison for ‘Proselytizing’ in Israel Although it remains legal in Israel for a Christian to talk with an Israeli about Christ, Israel’s anti-missionary law, conspicuously passed during Christmas week on Dec. 27, 1977, makes it a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison to attempt to convert an Israeli to Christianity by use of any material inducement. If a Christian gives even a gospel leaflet to an Israeli, he violates this law. Also, if the Israeli converts to Christianity after receiving the leaflet he himself could face 3 years in prison. 3 Decades of Persecution & Perversion The late Dr. Issa Nakhleh was a Christian Palestinian lawyer and diplomat. In his Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Problem (present in most university libraries), he presents a long and detailed chronology of many dozens of attacks against Christians, Christian holy places, and Christian rights in Israel. Many of these outrages were committed during and after the 1948 Israeli-Arab war and during the 1967 war but have recurred up to the present in every part of Israel. 4 For decades, attacks on Christian churches in Israel by angry Orthodox Jews and Israeli soldiers have been reported. “During the June war of 1967, Israeli forces opened the church of the Holy Sepulchre to Jews who poured into the holiest place in Christendom, indecently dressed, joking and pouring Pharisaic hate and insults against Christianity and against Jesus Christ inside the Holy Sepulcher and next to the tomb of Jesus Christ.” 5 During the first half of the 20th century, Palestine, like modern Lebanon, was home to many Christians. In 1945, 20 percent were Christians. But in 1948, 100,000 terrorized Christian Palestinians fled the Israelis into neighboring countries; many would spend the rest of their lives in detention camps. Today only 2 percent of Israelis are Christians. 6 Similarly, modern Lebanon, so recently bombed to rubble by Israel, is 39 percent Christian. That means about 500 Christians died in Israels recent attack. truthtellers.org/alerts/christiansinisrael2.html.
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