Jerusalem – Israeli police say a fire has damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem in what they suspect is a hate crime.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said “anti-Christian” slogans were scribbled in Hebrew on the seminary’s walls. He said the fire Thursday damaged the building’s bathrooms but that no one was injured.
The incident follows an attack on a West Bank mosque Wednesday.
Mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases have been targeted by vandals in recent years in so-called “price tag” attacks. The phrase is used by Jewish extremists to protest what they perceive as the Israeli government’s pro-Palestinian policies.
The attacks have been condemned across the political spectrum, but critics say Israel often fails to apprehend and prosecute the assailants.
Do these fools understand at all what a Chilul Hashem this is? In this day and age, when Jews are under attack from both Muslim and far-right Christian extremists, is it really necessary to take the low road and join them in hatefulness and terrorism? We’re better than that, aren’t we?