By AC Wimmer
CNA Press Room, February 13, 2024 / 11:45 a.m.
Following the spitting attack On a Feb. 3 Benedictine abbot in Jerusalem, a Jewish historian called such incidents reprehensible and called for an end to 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 daily. Judische Allgemeinea Jewish weekly published in Berlin on February 8.
“These Orthodox Jews immerse themselves in Torah, Talmud and tradition for hours, day after day, but elementary Judaism is obviously not part of their curriculum,” noted Wolffsohn, an Israeli-born German historian and former professor at the University of Jerusalem. University of German Armed Forces.
“We Jews have rightly complained about hatred toward Jews for thousands of years. Hatred by Jews against Christians or Muslims is equally reprehensible,” he said.
