by Veronika Kyrylenko, The New American:
Christians are facing a growing wave of hostility in Israel and the West Bank — the very lands they revere as the birthplace of their faith. The incidents include assaults, spitting, vandalism, settler violence, and attacks on Christian property.
On Sunday, The Washington Post published a report titled, “As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern.” It documents the latest incidents and suggests the attackers have grown more brazen under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The data from religious watchdogs confirm the troubling pattern.
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The developments land in a politically sensitive moment. For decades, United States leaders have described America and Israel as partners bound by shared biblical inheritance and common “Judeo-Christian” moral values. Washington has backed that language with enormous support. Israel has received more than $300 billion in inflation-adjusted U.S. aid since its founding, and the current aid framework provides $3.8 billion per year through 2028.
For many reasons, however, public support for that “alliance” is rapidly souring. With outlets such as the Post now reporting on the sharply rising anti-Christian hostility in Israel, what remains of that support may erode even faster.
Patriots, as always, must stay vigilant — not only about the facts themselves, but about where the backlash comes from, who amplifies it, and who tries to control it.
From Mount Zion to Taybeh
The Post opens on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, near King David’s tomb, the traditional site of the Last Supper and Dormition Abbey.
In April, that sacred geography became the scene of an attack. According to Israeli police, a Jewish Israeli man from the occupied West Bank shoved a French Catholic nun to the ground and kicked her out of “religious hostility.”
Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of Dormition Abbey, said the assault did not surprise him. Christians today are “hit, spit at, beaten,” he told the Post. “There was a video in this case, but you can be sure there are so, so many undocumented things.”
The outlet notes that Christian monastics and pilgrims have faced harassment in Jerusalem “for decades.” The difference now is scale and brazenness. Citing the Rossing Center, a Jerusalem-based interreligious organization, the report says harassment incidents “nearly doubled” from 2023 to 2025 and are on track to reach a new high this year (more on that later).
Meanwhile, In Taybeh, the only predominantly Christian town in the West Bank, the pressure looks more like a slow siege. Armed settlers have pushed into the surrounding area. Mayor Suleiman Khouriyeh was blocked from harvesting his olive grove after settlers seized land and built a fence. A hotel project stopped because of settler attacks. At Roland Bassir’s cement factory, settlers allegedly brought cattle onto the grounds, vandalized cars, and smashed equipment. Bassir has laid off nearly all of his workers, and has applied for a U.S. visa. “There is no future,” he said.
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