The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized the two Jewish Israelis who spat at a Christian clergyman and insulted him in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The ministry said in a statement that Saturday’s incident was a result of “incitement” by Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, and an expression of a “racist colonial culture: that denies the existence of the other”.
The statement said “settler militias” are emboldened by a “sense of political and legal impunity” that encourages them to persist in “sowing hatred” and “provoking Palestinian citizens and members of other religions”.
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