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500,000 Palestinians are Christians around the world, they form and estimated 6-7% of the global Palestinian population. 48% are Greek Orthodox, 38% Catholic and 4% are Evangelicals and Protestants. "The Palestinian Christian presence in Jerusalem is under threat due to institutionalised discrimination, attacks by radical Israeli groups, and systematic attempts by settler organisations to take over church property in the Old City". According to International Christian Concern: "In Israel, both Jewish (Messianic) and Arab Christians experience pressures for their faith from radical Jewish groups and can sometimes be treated as second-class citizens in the Jewish state".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.persecution.org/2023/10/12/hamas-and-israel-war-leaves-christians-in-the-crossfire/|title=Hamas and Israel War Leaves Christians in the Crossfire|date=10 December, 2023|publisher=Persecution.org}}</ref>
500,000 Palestinians are Christians around the world, they form and estimated 6-7% of the global Palestinian population. 48% are Greek Orthodox, 38% Catholic and 4% are Evangelicals and Protestants. "The Palestinian Christian presence in Jerusalem is under threat due to institutionalised discrimination, attacks by radical Israeli groups, and systematic attempts by settler organisations to take over church property in the Old City". According to International Christian Concern: "In Israel, both Jewish (Messianic) and Arab Christians experience pressures for their faith from radical Jewish groups and can sometimes be treated as second-class citizens in the Jewish state".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.persecution.org/2023/10/12/hamas-and-israel-war-leaves-christians-in-the-crossfire/|title=Hamas and Israel War Leaves Christians in the Crossfire|date=10 December, 2023|publisher=Persecution.org}}</ref>
The Times of Israel explains on the topic: "The picture of safe coexistence painted by Israeli officials is starkly at odds with the experiences Jerusalem’s Christian leaders themselves describe. While they readily acknowledge that there is no organized or governmental effort against them, Christian clergy in the Old City tell of a deteriorating atmosphere of harassment, apathy from authorities, and a growing fear that incidents of spitting and vandalism could turn into something far darker".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-attacks-on-christians-become-more-frequent-a-crisis-looms-for-israel/|title=As attacks on Christians become more frequent, a crisis looms for Israel|date=March 30, 2023|publisher=The Times of Israel}}</ref>
The lefty Times of Israel argues on the topic: "The picture of safe coexistence painted by Israeli officials is starkly at odds with the experiences Jerusalem’s Christian leaders themselves describe. While they readily acknowledge that there is no organized or governmental effort against them, Christian clergy in the Old City tell of a deteriorating atmosphere of harassment, apathy from authorities, and a growing fear that incidents of spitting and vandalism could turn into something far darker".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-attacks-on-christians-become-more-frequent-a-crisis-looms-for-israel/|title=As attacks on Christians become more frequent, a crisis looms for Israel|date=March 30, 2023|publisher=The Times of Israel}}</ref>
Christian Dr. [https://walidphares.com Walid Phares] (vilified by Islamists and leftists who are duped by them <ref>[https://emetonline.org/vilifying-walid-phares%E2%80%8E/ Vilifying Walid Phares] Sarah Stern, Emetonline, November 22, 2016.</ref>
Christian Dr. [https://walidphares.com Walid Phares] (vilified by Islamists and leftists who are duped by them <ref>[https://emetonline.org/vilifying-walid-phares%E2%80%8E/ Vilifying Walid Phares] Sarah Stern, Emetonline, November 22, 2016.</ref>
In [[Holy Week]] of 2023, due to Islamic violence, the Israeli police limited the number of worshippers from 8,200 attenders in 2022 to 1,800 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during Orthodox Easter ceremonies angering the Church leaders not willing to cooperate - though it was for their protection. In a joint statement, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Custody of the Holy Land and the Armenian Patriarchate said: "We shall continue to uphold the Status Quo customs, and the ceremony will be held as customary for two millennia and all who wish to worship with us are invited to attend".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2023-04/israel-orthodox-easter-jerusalem-security-limitations.html|title=Israel seeks to limit Orthodox Easter celebrations in Jerusalem|publisher=Vatican News|date=April 2023}}</ref>
In [[Holy Week]] of 2023, due to Islamic violence, the Israeli police limited the number of worshippers from 8,200 attenders in 2022 to 1,800 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during Orthodox Easter ceremonies angering the Church leaders not willing to cooperate - though it was for their protection. In a joint statement, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Custody of the Holy Land and the Armenian Patriarchate said: "We shall continue to uphold the Status Quo customs, and the ceremony will be held as customary for two millennia and all who wish to worship with us are invited to attend".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2023-04/israel-orthodox-easter-jerusalem-security-limitations.html|title=Israel seeks to limit Orthodox Easter celebrations in Jerusalem|publisher=Vatican News|date=April 2023}}</ref>
Note: Jewish access to some holy sites are also barred, frequently, when Islamist violence erupt.
[[File:366px-2010-08 Ramallah 59.jpg|thumbnail|250px|A Church at [[Ramallah]] ]]
[[File:366px-2010-08 Ramallah 59.jpg|thumbnail|250px|A Church at [[Ramallah]] ]]
On October 4, 2023, 5 Orthodox Jews were arrested on the West Bank for spitting at Christians in East Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-arrested-for-spitting-at-christians-in-jerusalem-police-minister-its-not-criminal/|title=5 arrested for spitting at Christians in Jerusalem; police minister: It’s not criminal|date=4 October 2023|publisher=Times of Israel}}</ref> And were condemned by all Rabbinical as well as Israeli government leadership. According to the Times of Israel, [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]] justified spitting toward Christians as "an ancient Jewish custom". Rabbis and other Orthodox Jews were incensed by that claim.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnaibrith.org/israels-missionary-problem-jns/|title=Spitting in God’s eye (JNS)|date=October 5, 2023|publisher=B'nai B'rith International}}</ref>
Note, the spitting thing is related to an old phenomenon against any images being worshipped. Not anti-Christian people per se. And based on Deuteronmy 7:26.
On October 4, 2023, 5 Orthodox Jews were arrested on the West Bank for spitting at in East Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-arrested-for-spitting-at-christians-in-jerusalem-police-minister-its-not-criminal/|title=5 arrested for spitting at Christians in Jerusalem; police minister: It’s not criminal|date=4 October 2023|publisher=Times of Israel}}</ref> And were condemned by all Rabbinical as well as Israeli government leadership. According to the Times of Israel, [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]] justified spitting toward Christians as "an ancient Jewish custom". Rabbis and other Orthodox Jews were incensed by that claim.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnaibrith.org/israels-missionary-problem-jns/|title=Spitting in God’s eye (JNS)|date=October 5, 2023|publisher=B'nai B'rith International}}</ref>
Neverherless, there have been lies spread as well. Such as by infamous fake news chief Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman - Islamist bigot) who has been spreading invented lies. Including
Neverherless, there have been lies spread as well. Such as by infamous fake news chief Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman - Islamist bigot) who has been spreading invented lies. Including
Oct 9, 2023, only after inciting some 800,00 users, he admitted he lied about Church supposedly "bombed."<ref>After inciting 800K views, Sulaiman Ahmed finally admitted (the spreading a false libel) about a church. That 'the church is fine.' (Oct 9, 2023) [https://archive.ph/QIiml]</ref>
Oct 9, 2023, only after inciting some 800,00 users, he admitted he lied about Church supposedly "bombed."<ref>After inciting 800K views, Sulaiman Ahmed finally admitted (the spreading a false libel) about a church. That 'the church is fine.' (Oct 9, 2023) [https://archive.ph/QIiml]</ref>
The Police could not confirm the accusations.
The Police could not confirm the accusations.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-779881]</small></blockquote></ref>
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-779881]</small></blockquote></ref>
Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite leader:<ref>Off The Record - Tucker Carlson, Israel, and the Questions That Weren’t Asked.
ILTV Israel News.
Feb 24, 2026.
<blockquote><small><small>
Shadi Khalloul is an Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite. He served as a lieutenant in a paratrooper division in the IDF. He is the chairman of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association, an organization that works to advance legislation in the Knesset focused on strengthening Christian integration and ensuring equal civil rights and basic community within the state of Israel.
Interviewer:
>>So you publicly invited Tucker Carlson to meet with local Christian Israeli leaders during his visit. Did you receive any response direct or indirect?
Shadi:
>>Unfortunately, we invited him many time and this time actually when we knew that he's coming to Israel indeed we invited him by letter from February 2nd dated February 2nd a week before and he never responded unfortunately.
Interviewer:
>> What conversations do you think he missed out on by not engaging with you and other Christian leaders on the ground?
Shadi:
>>It's his loss actually his loss of knowing the truth and as Christian as he claim he is a Christian believer uh he missed the opportunity of knowing the truth and speaking the truth ..he missed this opportunity to know the truth and speak the truth.
Interviewer:
>> If you had sat down with him, what was a misconception that you would have challenged immediately?
Shadi:
>>First of all, as I said, he would know better about
Khalloul is an Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite. "our thriving community and life in Israel as native Christians in the Galilee, as Israeli citizens living in proper Israel..
living here with Jewish majority, how our people enjoying life, how our homes are so beautiful ..the freedom we enjoy as a Christian.
Life in Israel is for Christians are the best actually life that Christian can ever imagine in the Middle East compared with other Christians in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. Here in Israel, we live in a safe country with order of law with democratic regime and state that allow us equality, freedom of speech, movement of worship of any other movement and and and freedom that we that you actually enjoy in Western societies, we have it here in Israel..
Our community to tell you exactly how it lives here in the gallery is first of all is like any other Arab and non Arab or Jews or non-Jews. We as Aramaic Christians, we live here in a very beautiful life. We enjoy the high education that Israeli system allow us. We have many people involved and integrated within the education system. We have a deacon of the University of Haifa. She's a Maronite Christian. Actually, her name is Mouna Maroun. We have the first judge of the Supreme Court. His name is Salim Juban is also from our community. We have people uh professors and doctors in high levels and positions in different institutions and hospitals and as well as we have many officers ladies and uh females and male in the IDF and in security services that are managing Jews actually and not the opposite as a Christian minority of 2% sent 188,000 Christians. We have so many high level and high rank positions in the IDF as well from the Christians who are willing to defend this state of Israel because it is a freedom and because it allow them the security and safety that they don't enjoy in any other Arab and Islamic regime....
[About bigoted commentators:]
These commentators that are actually talking about us, about our society as a Christian native people in the land and the holy land in Israel [are] actually harming us and destroying the beautiful coexistence that we enjoy here in Israel and they are endangering the Christian actually in Arab countries and inside Israel too, because while we are living here in a beautiful life in Israel, thriving Christian community, the other persecuted Christian under is under Arab and Islamic regime are actually needing this voice ... to speak for them and he's not doing so and he's exposing only so-called people who got paid to speak propaganda and lies against Israel and not exposing the danger and the persecution and the oppression and the silent genocide that Christians are facing under Islamic and Arab regimes in Lebanon, in Syria and Iraq, in Egypt, in Jordan, under Palestinian authority, in Bethlehem and others that are controlled by Arab Islamic regime of the Palestinian Authority. That's what Tucker Carson should expose and that's what they need him to expose if you want to help the Christians in the Middle East.
Interviewer:
>>Shadi, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate all of your insight...</small></small></blockquote></ref>
<blockquote><small>"our thriving community and life in Israel as native Christians in the Galilee, as Israeli citizens living in proper Israel...living here with Jewish majority, how our people enjoying life, how our homes are so beautiful ..the freedom we enjoy as a Christian.
Life in Israel for Christians are the best actually life that Christian can ever imagine in the Middle East compared with other Christians in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. Here in Israel, we live in a safe country with order of law with democratic regime and state that allow us equality, freedom of speech, movement of worship of any other movement and and and freedom that we that you actually enjoy in Western societies, we have it here in Israel..
Our community to tell you exactly how it lives here in the Galilee, is first of all like any other Arab and non Arab or Jews or non-Jews. We as Aramaic Christians, we live here in a very beautiful life. We enjoy the high education that Israeli system allow us. We have many people involved and integrated within the education system. We have a deacon of the University of Haifa. She's a Maronite Christian. Actually, her name is Mouna Maroun. We have the first judge of the Supreme Court. His name is Salim Juban is also from our community. We have people uh professors and doctors in high levels and positions in different institutions and hospitals and as well as we have many officers ladies and uh females and male in the IDF and in security services that are managing Jews actually and not the opposite as a Christian minority of 2% sent 188,000 Christians. We have so many high level and high rank positions in the IDF as well from the Christians who are willing to defend this state of Israel because it is a freedom and because it allow them the security and safety that they don't enjoy in any other Arab and Islamic regime...
While we are living here in a beautiful life in Israel, thriving Christian community, the other persecuted Christian under is under Arab and Islamic regime are actually needing a voice... exposing the danger and the persecution and the oppression and the silent genocide that Christians are facing under Islamic and Arab regimes in Lebanon, in Syria and Iraq, in Egypt, in Jordan, under Palestinian authority, in Bethlehem and others that are controlled by Arab Islamic regime of the Palestinian Authority.</small></blockquote>
Palestinian Christians in Gaza fear for the future of their tiny community from the Muslim population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/gaza-christians-fear-for-future-of-tiny-community|title=Gaza Christians fear for future of tiny community|date=July 25, 2012|publisher=Fox News}}</ref> This sentiment of fear of disappearing grew after the Israel-Gaza War that started in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-10/interview-with-custos-of-the-holy-land-fr-francesco-patton-ofm.html|title=Holy Land Custos: Fear is growing that Gaza's Christians will disappear|date=October 10, 2023|publisher=Vatican News}}</ref>
Palestinian Christians in Gaza fear for the future of their tiny community from the Muslim population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/gaza-christians-fear-for-future-of-tiny-community|title=Gaza Christians fear for future of tiny community|date=July 25, 2012|publisher=Fox News}}</ref> This sentiment of fear of disappearing grew after the Israel-Gaza War that started in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-10/interview-with-custos-of-the-holy-land-fr-francesco-patton-ofm.html|title=Holy Land Custos: Fear is growing that Gaza's Christians will disappear|date=October 10, 2023|publisher=Vatican News}}</ref>