Negative attitudes toward Christianity are becoming more common among young Israelis

The boys said it was a religious duty, or mitzvah, to humiliate Christians, or, as they called them, idol worshipers. “We are supposed to hate them,” explained one teen, wrapped in an Israeli flag.

They were among the thousands of mostly young Israelis who on that May afternoon marched through the historic Old City for a national celebration that marks the capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. It is an annual show of force that the area’s mostly Palestinian residents find provocative.
Younger Israelis lack knowledge about Christianity, and the little they do know often fuels intolerance

“The notion they have of Christianity is not very complex,” said Orit Ramon, an Israeli professor of Christian history at Jerusalem’s Open University. “They know Christian society mostly through the events of violence by European Christians towards Jews,” from the Crusades to the Holocaust.
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Negative attitudes toward Christianity are becoming more common among young Israelis

The boys said it was a religious duty, or mitzvah, to humiliate Christians, or, as they called them, idol worshipers. “We are supposed to hate them,” explained one teen, wrapped in an Israeli flag.

They were among the thousands of mostly young Israelis who on that May afternoon marched through the historic Old City for a national celebration that marks the capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. It is an annual show of force that the area’s mostly Palestinian residents find provocative.
Younger Israelis lack knowledge about Christianity, and the little they do know often fuels intolerance

“The notion they have of Christianity is not very complex,” said Orit Ramon, an Israeli professor of Christian history at Jerusalem’s Open University. “They know Christian society mostly through the events of violence by European Christians towards Jews,” from the Crusades to the Holocaust.
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An Israeli settler lawyer who represents settlers accused of attacking Palestinians told the BBC that Israel should "kill everyone" in the villages of Tel in retaliation for the killing of a single Israeli.

"One Jewish life is worth ten million," said Yehuda Shimon, a resident of the illegal Havat Gilad settlement. When asked whether his remarks were racist, he replied: "Yes, I know. But this is the truth. Because God chose us. You are jealous."