Church Defaced With Anti-Christian, Pro-Settler Graffiti

The graffiti, written with blue paint, reads "Jesus, son of a bitch” and "price tag.”

The Church of the Dormition. The graffiti on the door reads, "Jesus, son of a bith” and "price tag.”

Originally published at 10:41 pm CDT 10-2-2012

Church Defaced With Anti-Christian, Pro-Settler Graffiti
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Another church has been defaced with anti-Christian and pro-Jewish-settler graffiti.   

Unknown vandals defaced the walls of the Franciscan Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

The graffiti, written with blue paint, reads "Jesus, son of a bitch” and "price tag.”
 
Police reportedly confirmed the vandalism and told Ynet that an investigation had opened.
 
The vandalism follows an similar attack last month at the Latrun monastery and a string of mosque and church attacks before that. Many of the attacks, including the Latrun attack, also involved arson. There have also been a long string of frequent spitting attacks by haredim against Christian clergy in Jerusalem's Old City that stretch back over many years.

President Shimon Peres condemned the latest anti-Christian vandalism.

"We must not harm other religions' sanctuaries. We cannot accept this phenomenon in our midst, it goes against Judaism and damages Israel,” Peres said.

Comments

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

Judeo-thugs

[Nicole Czarnecki]

How Benjamin Netanyahu didn't speak on this matter is interesting--and that's what Anti Messianics ("Anti [and Counter] Missionaries") look like.

[Maskil]

Posted by: Nicole Czarnecki | October 02, 2012 at 10:54 PM

Not with the "price tag" ending. That is something anyone can do, and the investigation has to focus on, and thus cause misery for, settlers. How many times have Jews in the Diaspora defaced their own property with Nazi and other anti-semetic slogans for the insurance money? Enough. Crazy-ass Jews will do anything to get what they want.

[Note:]

Reminds me of that coptic christian guy who released an anti islamic film under the guise of "Israeli Jew".

[Warren]

Perhaps the "price tag" folks would be good enough to set up a website so we could find out which are authentic actions of theirs. Or maybe they'd like to issue a statement hoping the police catch these guys so they can sue them for misuse of their name.

[Lo K'darkah]

My guess is this is the work of idle and frustrated teenagers. because what the Franciscans have to do with tag m'chir is beyond me. Of course, that doesn't make it ok. An entire generation of thugs is growing up in Am Yisrael, dor tah'puchot heimah, who have not been taught by their elders to behave with derekh eretz towards other human beings. They are mindless and violent brats - the bastard children of decades of post-Shoah reactionary kannaitic Judeo-fascism and the willful small-mindedness of their leaders who get off on goading them towards thuggery. What a fantastic dugma they all are for the world.

[ruthie]

very sad when jews deface a church.
we're better than that.
a much way to deal with it...is to ignore the church.
or be nice to the people in it.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Terrible shanda! We say on Sukkot that a future Temple will become a house of prayer for all nations. Why would they want to worship with us if we treat them this way?

Errata: Shmarya, what's a "bith"? Did Sylvester the Cat write the graffiti?

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Not with the "price tag" ending. That is something anyone can do, and the investigation has to focus on, and thus cause misery for, settlers.

I wouldn't worry about the settlers. They are thugs, land thieves and low life vandals.

[Shmuel]

Not "son of a bith (bitch)" the correct translation is "son of a whore", or if we accept chazal's clean up job with Rahab then it will be "son of an innkeeper"

[Korbendallas72]

They are mindless and violent brats - the bastard children of decades of post-Shoah reactionary kannaitic Judeo-fascism and the willful small-mindedness of their leaders who get off on goading them towards thuggery. What a fantastic dugma they all are for the world.

Posted by: Lo K'darkah | October 03, 2012 at 04:53 AM

We have a winner. Thanks for playing, everyone.

[Alter Kocker]

The idea is to catch one of these thugs in the act. Now, I do not propose turning him over to the police because time and time again the police in Israel are not disposed toward prosecuting Haredi crime. Yes they investigate, but nothing ever seems to come of it.

No, a perpetrator must be caught, and the publicly humiliated. I suggest that he be tied naked to the church with slogans painted on him. Photos should be posted on the internet and he should be left for the public to see. This will serve as adequate warning that this will not be tolerated. The Haredim are cowards in the first degree, when threatened they will take to their heels.

[Lo K'darkah]

Thanks Korbendallas. I'll donate the winnings towards the cost of cleaning the church door.

[maven]

I like how everyone already knows who is responsible, and that its both a haredi and settler responsible.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Maven: You have a point, but whomever is responsible is probably religious and an ultranationalist. It is unlikely that a secular yuppie from North Tel Aviv did this (unless to make religious look bad).

That said, there are settlers and there are "settlers." There is a big difference between a suburbanite from Ma'ale Adumim and a fire-breather from Kfar Tapuach. I'm not sure, but I think there's more of the former than the latter.

[westernjew]

Hope that Israel realizes that the civilian population is way out of control.

[jancsibacsi]

Lo K'darkah - An entire generation of thugs is growing up in Am Yisrael, dor tah'puchot heimah, who have not been taught by their elders to behave with derekh eretz towards other human beings. They are mindless and violent brats - the bastard children of decades of post-Shoah reactionary kannaitic Judeo-fascism and the willful small-mindedness of their leaders who get off on goading them towards thuggery. What a fantastic dugma they all are for the world.
YOu hit the nail on its head i couldnt of said it better

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Hope that Israel realizes that the civilian population is way out of control.

unfortunately, it doesn't make a difference as it is ruled by lunatics and most of it's rabbis belong in straight jackets.
both government and rabbis are no different than their 'westernjews' type supporters in brooklyn, las vegas and elsewhere.

[maven]

Yochanan- there are many possible scenarios, and lots of different peoples in that area, and I see no reason to assume that a religious person is more likely to be responsible than a Russian teenage punk or even a non-Jew trying to cause trouble. It may well be a charedi settler in the end, but at this moment, a lynch mob is premature.

[zionist goy]

don't understand why this goes on and the perps continue to be such a mystery. with the availablity of inexpensive. low light video cams and time lapse reacorders, these people should be more readily discovered, if not deterred altogether. These kids, adults or whomever need some impulse control and education. Though i am disgusted everytime i see or walk by a mosque, i exercise such restraint.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

don't understand why this goes on and the perps continue to be such a mystery. with the availablity of inexpensive. low light video cams and time lapse reacorders,

not really, it's a government of lunatics and most of it's rabbis belong in straight jackets.

[Joe]

Unfortunately, polls suggest the acts of these "idle teenagers" are supported by over 2/3 of the haredi population.

Anyway, thanks! I'm going to show this article to all of my so-called Christian-Zionist friends so they can see some of who they're supporting. They don't see this side of the country on the infomercials of the crying Rabbi begging Christians for money to send Russian Jews to Israel. They don't see the spitting at and cursing of Christians. They need to keep their money and save up for a trip to Israel themselves. Maybe they can take a day trip to Beit Shemesh with crosses around their necks and their "I stand with Israel" t-shirts and see how welcomed they are. Might be an eye-opener.

[spacedout BT]

Studying the religious wars of Christian Europe in the 1600's doesn't make me feel too guilty about these crimes but seeing the perps caught and locked up will make me feel a whole lot better