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Campaign to 'shame' messianics

September 22, 2011 11:33

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Anonymous,

Anonymous

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A "naming and shaming" campaign to expose Messianic Jews living in Israel is the latest in a series of attacks against the 15,000-strong community that believe Jesus was the messiah.

Anonymous residents of Mevasseret Zion, a town of 30,000 just outside Jerusalem, last month distributed hundreds of flyers displaying the photographs and addresses of ten Messianic Jews in the town.

The action came weeks after locals accused the community of trying to indoctrinate a high school student.

"There has been a clear campaign against Messianic Jews here," said one of those listed on the flyer, a Jerusalem-based, American-born lawyer who made aliyah in 1992.

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