Sorta like Mecca or Medina?
You're defending the indefensible.
I hope that this "report" of folks spitting on other folks with whom they disagree is false.
Barring that, I hope such disgusting behaviour is limited to a few fringe whackjobs.
Trying to gin up excuses for them does credit neither to them, nor to you.
Only the priestly nation is allowed there.
Sorta like Mecca or Medina?
Yes. It's called "Theocracy." Ever heard of it?
Maybe you should re-read the Book of Joshua and see what ancient Jews (whom you look on as proto-chr*stians) did to worshipers of other "gxds" who lived there. There weren't no "Armenian Quarter" in Jerusalem back then.
You're defending the indefensible.
I'm not defending "spitting" (unless it is commanded or permitted by Halakhah). I am defending faithful Charedi Jews who represent real Judaism, unlike the atheists and liberals conservatives claim to oppose. Judaism is not a modern religion. It isn't an enlightenment religion. Its worldview is from three thousand years ago, not the days of Thomas Jefferson. And if you don't like that . . . if you insist that Jews must be multicultural liberals or else quietly acquiesce to chr*stian proclamations that Judaism is merely pre-"incarnation" chr*stianity . . . then you are against Judaism, the true religion. And then (to quote Razor Ramon), you an' me got a really big problem, Chico!
I hope that this "report" of folks spitting on other folks with whom they disagree is false.
Barring that, I hope such disgusting behaviour is limited to a few fringe whackjobs.
There are certainly whackjobs amongst the Charedim, as among all other peoples. Perhaps you read about the troubles in Bnai Braq with the Gerrer Chasidim. Even Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a particular hero of mine, says his life has been threatened. But posting this article on Free Republic at a time when the Democrats are afraid of losing the Jewish vote serves no purpose whatsoever other than a sinister one.
Trying to gin up excuses for them does credit neither to them, nor to you.
I am defending Charedi Judaism from attack by hypocritical conservatives who claim to love Judaism and who claim to have a pre-enlightenment mentality.
A few years ago a former FReeper (banned) posted an article for no purpose whatsoever than to mock and ridicule the religious custom of Kapparot. I view this article as being in the same vein.