A video clip published yesterday of settlers spitting on Christian clerics in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem sparked controversy about the increase in this phenomenon, especially at the time of Jewish holidays.

This uproar increased after Elisha (Elisha) Yared, the settler accused of participating in the killing of the young man Qusay Ma’tan from the village of Burqa near Ramallah, tweeted in recent months, who said in his tweet on the “X” platform, “It is an appropriate time to remember that the habit of spitting “Near priests or churches, it is an ancient and long-standing custom, and a very ancient Jewish custom.”

Wiard previously served as spokesman for MK Limon Son Har-Melech of the Jewish Power party led by extremist Itamar Ben Gvir.

Yared considered what the settlers were doing to be “a special blessing that grants a long life to those who pray, and that its aim is to glorify the Almighty God, who blames the bad actions of foreigners and does not punish them.” like he said.

He added: "Maybe under the influence of Western culture a little, we have forgotten what Christianity is, but I think the millions of Jews who went to the Crusades in exile, suffered the Inquisition, torture, blood plots and mass pogroms, so we will never forget that."