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January 24, 2022

Desperate for Money, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Slanders Israel

Scapegoating Jews to gain sympathy, . . . and donations.

Theophilus III, the Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and his church’s senior clergyman in Israel, wrote an article earlier this month in the London Times under the headline, “Christians Are under Threat in the Cradle of Their Faith,” which begins with a declaration that he and his coreligionists in Jerusalem “know what it is to live in darkness.” Flour Hassan-Nahoum, the deputy mayor of the Israeli capital, responds:

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