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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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”.

So, even if that was not absolute bullshit, then that would have been a shit custom. How do you get this vile? Yea, well, we've been spitting on "the others" since ancient times isn't a good argument. Just means you've had a fucking awful custom. What a cunt

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

How do you get this vile?

Oh I know this one!

Religion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

context aside that's a pretty funny thing to say.

"oh yeah ancient Jewish custom, mate, goes way back"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I don't usually go for the edgy dark jokes, but someone should tell him about an old German custom regarding Jews.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

Fundamentalists are assholes. Every fucking one.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Religion, the great spreader of hate.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's do some more outrage over Israel's apartheid crimes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Just religious fundamentalist right wingers doing their thing, nothing to see here ...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, we should definitely continue giving Israel 3.8 billion dollars unconditionally every year. They certainly appreciate it...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ultra-orthodox jews don't even recognize Israel as a state. So your hate is kind of misdirected and you'd be doing them a favor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel still probably shouldn't be getting a blank check, what with their penchant for human rights abuses and whatnot

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seriously doubt they are getting a blank check.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The spitting incident, which the city’s minority Christian community lamented as the latest in an alarming surge of religiously motivated attacks, drew rare outrage on Tuesday from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other senior figures.

Since Israel’s most conservative government in history came to power late last year, concerns have mounted among religious leaders – including the influential Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch – over the increasing harassment of the region’s 2,000-year-old Christian community.

Those worries over rising intolerance seem to violate Israel’s stated commitment to freedom of worship and sacred trust over holy places, enshrined in the declaration that marked its founding 75 years ago.

The spitting scene, captured on Monday by a reporter at Israel’s left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, shows a group of foreign pilgrims beginning their procession through the limestone labyrinth of the Old City, home to the holiest ground in Judaism, the third-holiest shrine in Islam and major Christian sites.

Along the way, ultra-Orthodox Jews in dark suits and broad-brimmed black hats squeezed past the pilgrims through narrow alleyways, their ritual palm fronds for the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot in hand.

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”.


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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Them orthodox Jewish dudes sure do love them some spitting on people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Muscular arm on the left. (Orthodox Jews)

Muscular arm on the right. (Parisians)

Clasped hands. (spitting on people)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Charming people.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Jews wouldn't have Israel without the Christians giving it to them.