The growing hostility of Israeli Jewish extremists towards Christian priests and other clergy in the Holy Land has been exposed by an undercover Israeli reporter.
Yossi Eli of Israel’s Channel 13 wanted to investigate the recent spike in hate crimes against Christians around Jerusalem, especially in the Old City next to the Western Wall. So he planned a news segment called Priest For A Day. The reporter dressed in a Franciscan priest’s habit and was accompanied by Father Alberto Pari, secretary of the Custody of the Holy Land, as they wandered around the city with a camera crew covertly filming every incident.
Within five minutes of starting his walk, the journalist was spat on by Jewish Israeli settlers. He heard a man mockingly say in Hebrew: Forgive me Father for I have sinned as the pair walked by. They were then spat on by an 8-year-old child and a soldier as they passed troops guarding the Old City.
Yossi Eli tweeted a video of the incident with the following caption: “The justification of some Jewish groups for hate crimes is that they are ‘mentally ill.’ Our investigation proved that the attacks are really not from the mentally ill, but people with a clear opinion who simply hate something they are not. Brainwash them that Jesus is bad.”
Read the article by Tony Davenport from Vision Christian Media.