AFP:
Israeli anti-racism activists have called for an investigation after a Jєωιѕн extremist leader urged a ban on Christmas celebrations in the country and called Christians “vampires”.
Benzi Gopstein, who heads the far-right Lehava organisation and has been arrested a number of times, made the comments in an article on the ultra-Orthodox Jєωιѕн website Kooker.
“Christmas has no place in the Holy Land,” wrote Gopstein, who lives in a Jєωιѕн settlement in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
He spoke of the “fall of the line of defence of the Jєωιѕн people for hundreds of years against our enemies, the Catholic Church.”
“The mission of those vampires and bloodsuckers remains. If Jєωs cannot be killed, they can be converted,” he wrote.
“We must remove the vampires before they drink our blood once again.”