CNA Newsroom, Feb 13, 2024 / 11:45 am
Following the spitting attack on a Benedictine abbot on Feb. 3 in Jerusalem, a Jewish historian has decried such incidents as reprehensible and called for an end to the hatred.
“Especially in Jerusalem, orthodox activists consider themselves exemplary Jews when they spit on or even beat Christians or Muslims,” Michael Wolffsohn wrote in the Jüdische Allgemeine, a weekly Jewish newspaper published in Berlin, on Feb. 8.
“Those orthodox Jews immerse themselves in Torah, Talmud, and tradition for hours on end, day in, day out, but elementary Judaism is obviously not part of their curriculum,” noted Wolffsohn, an Israeli-born German historian and former professor at the University of the German Armed Forces.
“We Jews have rightly complained about hatred of Jews for thousands of years. Jewish hatred against Christians or Muslims is just as reprehensible,” he said.
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