# Spitting on priests

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spitting-on-priests/601994>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 5, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spitting-on-priests/601994 "2011-11-05T21:39:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spitting-on-priests/601994/61 "2011-11-08T22:45:44Z")

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> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> I’m hardly all that religious but I found this article about priests in Jerusalem regularly getting spat on by Ultra-Orthodox Jews really disturbing.
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> [http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ultra-orthodox-spitting-attacks-on-old-city-clergymen-becoming-daily-1.393669](http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ultra-orthodox-spitting-attacks-on-old-city-clergymen-becoming-daily-1.393669)  
> As one commentator noted, I wonder how Bill O’Reilly would have reacted to this happening in Berkley.

Disgusting.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spitting-on-priests/601994/62 "2011-11-08T22:51:29Z")

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I like the way this judge thinks, from the article in the OP:

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> Johannes Martarsian was walking in the Old City in May 2008 when an young ultra-Orthodox Jew spat at him. Maratersian punched the spitter in the face, making him bleed, and was charged for assault. But Judge Dov Pollock, who unexpectedly annulled the indictment, wrote in his verdict that “putting the defendant on trial for a single blow at a man who spat at his face, after suffering the degradation of being spat on for years while walking around in his church robes is a fundamental contravention of the principles of justice and decency.”

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**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spitting-on-priests/601994/63 "2011-11-09T08:20:29Z")

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> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#):
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> [Nope](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Syndrome)

Ignorance fought.

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