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Spate of hate attacks as Israel ups security for papal visit
An Israeli policeman walks past graffiti on the wall of a church near an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2014. The graffiti reads "King David for the Jews...Jesus is garbage" (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Vandals sprayed anti-Christian graffiti on a Jerusalem church on Friday, despite Israeli police stepping up security around religious sites ahead of a visit by Pope Francis later this month.
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"Price tag... King David for the Jews... Jesus is garbage" was spray-painted in Hebrew on the wall of St George's, a Romanian Orthodox church near an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood.
"Price tag" is a euphemism for hate attacks by Jewish extremists.
Police said that "Death to Arabs" was found written on a house in the Old City in east Jerusalem, and swastikas were scrawled on the wall of a west Jerusalem apartment.
The Roman Catholic church has demanded Israeli action after Hebrew graffiti reading "Death to Arabs and Christians and to everyone who hates Israel" was daubed on its Notre Dame complex in Jerusalem on Monday.
"The bishops are very concerned about the lack of security and lack of responsiveness from the political sector, and fear an escalation of violence," the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem