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Violence against Christians is on the rise in Israel
Under Israeli rule, Christians in Israel and the West Bank have suffered increasing attacks, including spitting on clergy, physical harassment and the vandalism and destruction of churches, cemeteries and other Christian symbols. The incidents, carried out by ultra-Orthodox Jews, religious nationalists and settlers alike, have largely gone unchecked as Israeli police stand idly by.
On July 7, 2025, Jewish settlers targeted the Christian town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central West Ban
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That the Christians in Palestine and Israel are not Evangelical Protestant and are overwhelmingly Palestinian Arab, is another factor why no protest will occur and no help will come from the United States government and from the powerful Evangelical Protestant lobbies.
Again, since Armenians are regarded as the friends and allies of Palestinians and of Arabs in general, and are lumped together with them as hostile to Israel, likewise.
American Evangelical Protestants have shown as much indifference and hostility to Palestinian Christians, Armenian Christians and other Christians living in Palestine and Israel, as Israel does.
European Christians who reside in Palestine and Israel, have been subjected to the same discrimination and harrasment, and to the expropriation and vandalism of their properties, like the Palestinians and Armenians have.
Many intolerant Evangelical Protestants, regard other Christian denominations as alien (especially the Eastern Christian Churches, like the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches), even heretical and one step short of paganism.
Because of the alliance of the powerful Israel and Evangelical Protestant lobbies, who are in a symbiotic relationship with each other, expecting a response from the United States government is wishful thinking. The United States government’s response, or more precisely the lack of it, to Israel’s carnage and destruction in Gaza, is a stark example of this.
For example if a small amount of non-threatening individuals decided to remain in the general area with the intentions of only involving themselves if they witnessed an unprovoked attack, and then only would they respond in a defensive matter, but being willing to use force if necessary to diffuse the situation, and to hopefully discourage future acts of a similar nature…. How do you believe enforcement respond to this type of action?