Some analysts believe that religiously-motivated crimes will continue to happen, as extremists will feel emboldened to attack non-Jewish symbols under the new hardline Israeli government
Christian and Muslim religious sites have been desecrated for over 50 years in the occupied West Bank and such acts will continue, analysts and religious leaders have said, after two young Jews were caught on camera vandalising Christian graves near Mount Zion in occupied East Jerusalem.
Owda’s comments were echoed by Father Donald Binder, who also condemned the vandalism at the Protestant Cemetery and added that perpetrators were motivated by religious bigotry and hatred of Christians. “As long as there is no action to stop these criminals, we shall expect more of such attempts, especially after the swearing-in of the new Israeli government a couple of weeks ago,” Owda said.
There is also a political desire in Israel to take control of Jerusalem and to erase any non-Jewish features in an attempt to assert a Jewish takeover of the city, Attallah noted. “I went to the cemetery three weeks ago to visit the grave of Oskar Schindler. He is a very important person, who with his wife saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust,” Shaked told TRT World, referring to the man immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s multiple Oscar-winning Schindler’s List.Mount Zion is sacred to Christians and Muslims, as well as the Jewish people, who believe it is home to King David’s tomb.
Reverend Ashraf Tannous, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Beit Jala, told TRT World that the vandalised graves in the cemetery speak to the history of the Protestant churches in Israel.
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