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Police arrest man for attacking French nun at Jerusalem biblical site, release video of vicious assault
Times of Israel ^ | 4/302026 | Lazar Berman

Posted on 04/30/2026 6:18:33 PM PDT by mac_truck

Police said Wednesday they had arrested a Jewish man suspected of assaulting a French nun in Jerusalem the previous day, saying they had a zero-tolerance policy on attacks against religious figures.

“The suspect, a 36-year-old male, was identified and subsequently arrested by police,” the force said in a statement, adding it viewed with “utmost severity” any violent act “driven by potentially racist motives and directed toward members of the clergy.”

The suspect was arrested on Tuesday, the same day as the attack.

On Thursday, police released footage of the assault, which showed the suspect running up from behind the nun and shoving her to the ground.

The suspect, who is wearing the tzitzit Jewish ritual men’s undergarment, is then seen walking away before returning to kick the woman while she is still lying on the ground.

The man then scuffles briefly with a passerby, who appears to attempt to intervene in the assault.

Father Olivier Poquillon, director of Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, told AFP the 48-year-old nun was a researcher at the institution and does not wish to speak publicly.

“Yesterday, around 5:45 p.m. (1445 GMT) … she felt someone come up behind her and throw her with full force onto a rock,” Poquillon said, describing Tuesday’s attack.

“While the sister was on the ground, the man began to kick her repeatedly,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assant; attack; coward; french; itsthemyogi; mtzion; nun

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1 posted on 04/30/2026 6:18:33 PM PDT by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck

Joooooos hate Christians, right dumbnuts?


2 posted on 04/30/2026 6:21:30 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: pissant

That particular one seems to.


3 posted on 04/30/2026 6:24:46 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: pissant

Goes back to the Acts of the Apostles...and further.


4 posted on 04/30/2026 6:25:44 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: fidelis

Times of Israel: “Police said Wednesday they had arrested a Jewish man suspected of assaulting a French nun in Jerusalem the previous day, saying they had a zero-tolerance policy on attacks against religious figures. ... On Thursday, police released footage of the assault, which showed the suspect running up from behind the nun and shoving her to the ground. The suspect, who is wearing the tzitzit Jewish ritual men’s undergarment, is then seen walking away before returning to kick the woman while she is still lying on the ground.”

pissant: “Joooooos hate Christians, right dumbnuts?”

fidelis: “That particular one seems to.”

The facts back up fidelis’s statement. In spades.


5 posted on 04/30/2026 6:36:34 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: lightman

Don’t think the Apostles hated themselves


6 posted on 04/30/2026 6:46:45 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: fidelis

Of course. And there are plenty of arseholes claiming to be Christian that hate the joooos. Robert Bowers comes to mind.

Yet we don’t apply sweeping generalizations about American Christians hating Jews because of some retarded POS like Bowers.

But the FR anti-jooo brigades scour the internet looking for signs that the joooos, and especially Netanyahu, hate Christians


7 posted on 04/30/2026 6:59:24 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: mac_truck

Jeez, these anti-Christian zealots must be insane. Don’t they realize they risk alienating some of their only friends in the world.


8 posted on 04/30/2026 7:00:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: mac_truck

Such behavior is rare, but despicable - although this is the second such story we’ve heard in recent weeks. I think it’s worth pointing out the perpetrator, according to the article, was a member of an ultra-orthodox community. Many of these communities have radical interpretations of the Bible and even view the Israeli government as illegitimate and express hostility towards secular Jews in Israel and religious Jews who are not sufficiently pious - in their eyes.

They have been known to pelt IDF soldiers with rocks, refuse to serve in the military, and are all around pains in the asses. It doesn’t surprise me that they would turn their ire towards Christian targets as well.

Here’s an article about a rock throwing incident against the IDF last year.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-880704


9 posted on 04/30/2026 7:03:44 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: pissant
I scoured the Internet and found this:


10 posted on 04/30/2026 7:04:53 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: mac_truck

So a dumb cluck Jew got arrested and will be prosecuted by Israel for being a violent idiot.

Good.

Let’s see this turned into an indictment of all Jews everywhere in 3, 2, 1 …


11 posted on 04/30/2026 7:07:13 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Paid leftist Trolls ought to be banned here. There are several obvious ones.)
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To: pissant

Read the Book.

The Apostles and their proselytes encountered incredible persecution.

Paul was Martyred...as was Peter.


12 posted on 04/30/2026 7:07:37 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

All you had to do dumbnuts is scour FR. The anti-jooo brigades posted it here 50 times already. Most failed to mention the asshole got sent to jail and dismissed from combat duty (probably his intent)


13 posted on 04/30/2026 7:08:45 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I scoured the internet and found this:

US soldier charged for threatening to ‘kill every single Jew’ inside of a synagogue

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Grace Gilson
Posted on 4/28/2026, 7:49:54 PM by Uncle Miltie

An American soldier stationed at Fort Polk in Louisiana was arrested last week after he told users on the popular messaging platform Discord that he planned to conduct a mass shooting at a synagogue.

Jakob Marcoulier, 22, was arrested on Thursday and charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce after the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received a tip in February that he had made threats toward synagogues, according to the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Louisiana.


14 posted on 04/30/2026 7:10:00 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Paid leftist Trolls ought to be banned here. There are several obvious ones.)
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To: lightman

I’ve been reading the Bible since childhood. No need to tell me about the Apostles. BTW, Peter was executed by Rome under Nero’s purge. Still hate them damn Italians, do ya?


15 posted on 04/30/2026 7:12:25 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: pissant

Peter appealed to Caesar on the basis of his Roman citizenship (and to his own demise, it’s in the Book) but Paul and James, the first Bishop of Jerusalem were Martyred “because it pleased the Jews”.

Jesus was a Jewish carpenter...”but His own received Him not”.


16 posted on 04/30/2026 7:17:04 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: lightman

It was Paul who appealed, not Peter, if you are referring to the account in the Book of Acts.


17 posted on 04/30/2026 7:21:53 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Cedar

Thank you...correct...juggling too many discussions tonight!


18 posted on 04/30/2026 7:25:12 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: lightman

It was Nero’s (yeah, THAT Caesar) purge. Not the Sadducee’s of Jerusalem that ended Peter’s (and) Paul’s life. And many, many thousands of other Christians - of the Jewish or gentile variety. Damn those Romans


19 posted on 04/30/2026 7:25:39 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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Not to mention that the Italians sided with Nazi Germany in WWII and the allies lost thousands of men in that Theater. Dsamn those romans!!


20 posted on 04/30/2026 7:28:11 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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