On 19 Dec 2010 , a rally attended by 200 people was held in Bat Yam against the " assimilation " of young Jewish women with Arabs . One of the organizers , " Bentzi " Ben-Zion Gopstein , said that the motives are not racist : " It is important to explain that the problem is religious , not racist . If my son were to decide to marry an Arab woman who converted , I would n't have a problem with that . My problem is the assimilation that the phenomenon causes . " One of the protestors called out , " Any Jewish woman who goes with an Arab should be killed ; any Jew who sells his home to an Arab should be killed . " Bat Yam Mayor Shlomo Lahyani condemned the event , saying " The city of Bat Yam denounces any racist phenomenon . This is a democratic country , " . Nearby , about 200 residents of Bat Yam held a counter protest , waving signs reading , " We 're fed up with racists " and " Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies " . Later that month , the wives of 27 rabbis signed a letter calling on Jewish girls to stay away from Arab men . The document stated : " Do n't date them , do n't work where they work and do n't perform National Service with them . " A senior Catholic spokesman , Fr Pierbattista Pizzaballa , the Custodian of the Holy Land , has claimed that a lack of police action , and an educational culture in which Jewish pupils are encouraged to act with " contempt " towards Christians , has resulted in life becoming increasingly " intolerable " for many Christians . In 2012 , pro-settler extremists attacked a Trappist monastery in the town of Latroun covering walls with anti-Christian graffiti denouncing Christ as a " monkey " , and the 11th century Monastery of the Cross was daubed with offensive slogans such as " Death to Christians " . According to an article in the Telegraph , Christian leaders feel that the most important issue that Israel has failed to address is the practice of some ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools to teach children that it is a religious obligation to abuse anyone in Holy Orders they encounter in public , " such that Ultra-Orthodox Jews , including children as young as eight , spit at members of the clergy on a daily basis . " Incidents of spitting on Christian clergymen in Jerusalem have been common since the 1990s . Ruling on the case of a Greek Orthodox priest who had struck a yeshiva student who spat near him in 2011 , a Jerusalem magistrate wrote , " Day after day , clergymen endure spitting by members of those fringe groups — a phenomenon intended to treat other religions with contempt . ... The authorities are not able to eradicate this phenomenon and they do n't catch the spitters , even though this phenomenon has been going on for years . " In 1994 , a Jewish settler in the West Bank and follower of the Kach party , Baruch Goldstein , massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron . During his funeral , a rabbi declared that even one million Arabs are " not worth a Jewish fingernail " . Goldstein was immediately " denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox " , and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane . The Israeli government condemned the massacre and made Kach illegal . The Israeli army killed a further nine Palestinians during riots following the massacre , and the Israeli government severely restricted Palestinian freedom of movement in Hebron , while letting settlers and foreign tourists roam free , although Israel also forbade certain Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian towns and demanded that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles . Goldstein 's grave has become a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists
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