Spitting in God’s eye

Tensions in Israel between Christians and Jews are complicated and disturbing

Disputation between Christian and Jewish scholars; woodcut, Johann von Armssheim, 1483

Earlier this week, ultra-Orthodox Jews parading through Jerusalem’s Old City passed a group of Christians bearing a large wooden cross. Some of the Jews spat on the ground in the Christians’ direction.

Two days later, Jerusalem police arrested five Jews involved in a si…