‘Some Hide Their Crosses’: Jerusalem Nun Attack Highlights Israel’s Growing Anti-Christian Problem

‘Some hide their crosses’: Jerusalem nun attack highlights Israel’s growing anti-Christian problem

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 – 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.

The assault on French Nun and forgotten story of Palestinian Christians

The assault on a French nun in Jerusalem has drawn renewed attention to the often-overlooked suffering of Palestinian Christians.

The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians

The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the 'other' as subhuman. Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine.…

Israeli Settler to Stand Trial for Assault on French Nun in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM: An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel’s justice ministry said Thursday. The assault on the nun, a 48-year-old researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, occurred on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City. The suspect, named Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, is from a se…