On January 1, dozens of graves were vandalized in Jerusalem’s cemetery on Mount Zion. A few days later, a video emerged where the subjects perpetrating the crime were shown wearing traditional Jewish attire.
On January 4, a reporter from the Jewish news Haaretz, Nir Hasson, tweeted the video captioned “two Jews vandalizing graves.” The footage shows the men wearing kippas (Jewish head covering) and tassels (tzitzit) knotted to their clothing, per the Torah’s command to the Hebrews. The men pulled down crosses inside the Christian cemetery and then smashed them to pieces.
Believers of Islam were infuriated by the remarks of some politicians of India's ruling party, the BJP, claiming that Islam and the prophet had been insulted. Nidhal Siam, a Palestinian Islamic scholar, recently held an anti-Indian rally at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in protest.
A recently finished study by an Israeli geologist has significantly increased the chances that an ancient tomb located on the outskirts of Jerusalem was the final resting place of Jesus Christ and his family members. The new findings by Aryeh Shimron made use of a chemical fingerprint to link a bone box, or ossuary, inscribed with the words ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus’ to a tomb that is located inside a rose garden amidst several ordinary apartments at a Jerusalem suburb called Talpiot.
