Posted on 11/04/2011 7:56:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
Details, from a Jewish paper in Israel:
Ultra-Orthodox young men curse and spit at Christian clergymen in the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City as a matter of routine. In most cases the clergymen ignore the attacks, but sometimes they strike back. Last week the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court quashed the indictment against an Armenian priesthood student who had punched the man who spat at him.
Johannes Martarsian was walking in the Old City in May 2008 when an young ultra-Orthodox Jew spat at him. Maratersian punched the spitter in the face, making him bleed, and was charged for assault. But Judge Dov Pollock, who unexpectedly annulled the indictment, wrote in his verdict that “putting the defendant on trial for a single blow at a man who spat at his face, after suffering the degradation of being spat on for years while walking around in his church robes is a fundamental contravention of the principles of justice and decency.”
“Needless to say, spitting toward the defendant when he was wearing the robe is a criminal offense,” the judge said.
When Narek Garabedian came to Israel to study in the Armenian Seminary in Jerusalem half a year ago, he did not expect the insults, curses and spitting he would be subjected to daily by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the streets of the Old City.
“When I see an ultra-Orthodox man coming toward me in the street, I always ask myself if he will spit at me,” says Narek, a Canadian Armenian, this week. About a month ago, on his way to buy groceries in the Old City, two ultra-Orthodox men spat at him. The spittle did not fall at his feet but on his person. Narek, a former football player, decided this time not to turn the other.....
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Beats the hell out of a beheading any day of the week.
Didn’t the Nazi’s do the same thing. Maybe these guy’s are not getting enough history in their schools to know better.
And what would your response be if Jews in America were routinely spat upon by Christians?
Thanks for the post, first I ever heard of this. I don’t understand.
Not relying on explosives and mayhem (yet) still makes them tolerable.
We should fund neither the Arabs nor Israel —let them deal with their own problems their own way.
But they are not.
This is a fact, alot of Ultra Orthodox Jews are stuck in the past, just like the Muslims are.
The question shouldn’t be what if this happened...
The question should be why is this happening now?
And, are you okay with it? I’m not. I Stand with Israel, but the UOJ should realize that we (Christians and Jews) actually do worship the SAME God
I as a christian have been spat apon by an ultra Orthodox type. They get pretty radical over there. Nice to see that the Jewish courts sided with the christian isn’t it?
Most Jews are very respectful of anyone of faith. Indeed the court findings prove that. Not bad for a people with a history of having their great great grandmas burned at the stake for remaining Jews rather than convert to Catholics.
More like being put on the spit, rather than the spit being put on you.
Well the Ultra’s belive that God is one, and Jesus makes two, so they do want to be a polythiest. Missing the point, but that is the point, isn’t it.
I am ok with it, it’t not like we got all our ducks in a line either.
Thanks
Wow! It’s been too long since there was a good round of Jew-bashing on FR!
And BTW, this exact story shows up every few months.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2397730/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184432/posts
Former head of Mossad Efraim Halevy condemns new trend in the IDF; “Israel’s true existential danger comes from within.”
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=244378
“And BTW, this exact story shows up every few months.”
You are linking to different stories. And BTW, sounds like the spitting shows up more often than “every few months”. Why don’t you stick a fork in the victimhood shtick.
Stop the spitting and there would be nothing to report.
Read some history. The Inquisition, if that is what you are referring to, was not used to force conversion upon the Jews. Indeed, Jews, as Jews, did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. The only Jews that would fall under its jurisdiction were those professed Christians charged by the Spanish Inquisition with false conversion. And here the concern was more with Jews pretending to be Christians in order to undermine the Christian state, not as a means to convert them. Not that they enjoy equal rights under Catholic Spain but until their expulsion by Queen Isabella professed Jews were exempt from the Inquisition and were not threatened with "convert or die."
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