In this latest video, published on the occupation’s police site and showing us the racism and apartheid of the Jewish supremacist state, an Israeli settler can be seen carrying out a violent attack on a nun, while she was in Jerusalem’s old city. The man then walked away, before he stops, goes back to the nun and violently kicks her while she is still on the ground.
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176 hate crimes against Palestinian Christians in 2025
The 36-year-old settler attacked the 48-year-old French nun in the King David’s Tomb area on Mount Zion. As is usual with Israeli occupation attacks on Palestinians that make international news, justice needs to be seen to be done, so the authorities claim they have taken action against the perpetrators of this crime — for once.
This attack is far from an isolated incident. Attacks against Christians, who have lived in the Holy Land for 2000 years, are on the rise. According to the Religious Freedom Data Centre of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, figures as of 1 May 2026 tell us there were 176 hate crimes against Christians in 2025. But the true numbers are higher — these figures only represent those incidents which were recorded.
Documented incidents of hate crimes against Christians include physical attacks, attacks on church property, and the defacing of public Christian signs and spaces. The most common crimes against Christians by Jews are those such as spitting, insults and harassment which, although they may seem minor, in the long term can become extremely exhausting and a major source of intimidation. These physical attacks mostly target clergy — monks, nuns, priests and friars — who are easily identifiable by their clothing.
Increased restrictions on holy sites in Jerusalem
As with their apartheid policies towards Muslims, the Israeli occupation also blocks Christian access to holy sites. This Easter, as part of its ongoing judaisation measures for Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation tightened restrictions and put up checkpoints and barriers — and assaulted Christians in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. Thousands of worshippers were prevented from reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and a number of Christian worshippers were arrested.
And on Palm Sunday, Israeli occupation police turned away the Latin Patriarch from the church, the first time this has happened in centuries.
According to areport by Jerusalem-based interfaith peacebuilding organisation the Rossing Centre for Education and Dialogue (RCED), there is an intolerance towards Christians among the majority of Israelis. 59 percent of Haredi Jews, and 49 percent of orthodox ones believe the occupation should encourage their emigration from “Israel”.
Christians now only make up 1.5 percent of Jerusalem’s population, and numbers are decreasing every year because of Israeli occupation policies and increasing violence towards them.
Jewish Supremacist state of Israel privileges Jews over all others
In 2018, the Knesset passed yet another piece of legislation that reinforces the occupation’s racist and discriminatory practices against Christians and Muslims. Known as the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. It privileges Jewish citizens over all others, and declares that “Israel” is the historical homeland of the Jewish people. The law demands the recognition of “Israel” as the “Jewish state”, defining the right of national self-determination as “unique to the Jewish people”. It has made Hebrew the only official language, and promotes Jewish settlements as a “national value”. The law also states that all of Jerusalem is the “capital of Israel”.
During an interview in 2025, ICC-wanted war criminal Netanyahu told the Israeli TV i24 that he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission,” and that he is “very attached to the vision of “Greater Israel” while he is “feeling stronger”, while talking about working for the future of “Jews generations”. He mentioned nothing about the future of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, or the neighboring Arabian and Islamic countries.
@middleeasteye“So you ask if I feel like I am on a mission, historically and spiritually, and the answer is yes.” In an interview with Israeli channel i24, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he is on a “historic and spiritual mission” and feels a strong connection to the vision of a “greater Israel,” which seeks expansion throughout the Middle East.
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‘Greater Israel” means annexing the entire historic Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, a large part of Syria, Iraq and Egypt, and also parts of Saudia-Arabia. And it would means endless wars in the Middle East between the “Israeli” occupying army and all the Arabian and the Islamic countries,
As part of the Palestinian population in the apartheid state of “Israel”, Christians also suffer from movement restrictions, forced displacement, and violent settler attacks.
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By Charlie Jaay
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