International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations press release on recurrent expressions and demonstrations of intolerance in Israel perpetrated against Christians and Christian religious sites

The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC), the official body which represents world Jewry in dialogue with other global faith bodies including the Vatican, the WCC and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, said in a press release on 12 July “with dismay the recurrent expressions and demonstrations of intolerance in Israel perpetrated against Christians and Christian religious sites, such as spitting and desecration of graves and churches.”