Christians could face one year prison sentence for encouraging conversion to their faith, according to a new controversial legislation being introduced in Israel. The legislation which is being proposed by ultra-Orthodox members of Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition would also proscribe Christians from engaging in religious discussion with Jews.
Titled Proposed Penal Law: Amendment – Prohibition of Solicitation for Religious Conversion – 2023, the legislation is introduced by United Torah Judaism's Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher. The law would apply to anyone who would attempt to persuade someone to change their religious beliefs, however the legislation specifically mentions the Christian faith, saying that "recently, the attempts of missionary groups, mainly Christians, to solicit conversion of religion have increased."
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This seems pretty weird, wouldn't they not want to alienate their American evangelical support?
No they're at the stage where they want to crank global anti-Semitism to 11 so more diaspora Jews will want to move to Israel to escape. Literally Hitler's plan
Actual Israelites don’t like those people, being fetishized isn’t a good feeling and breeds resentment.
The support of Israel in DC doesn't depend on them.
Israelis feel weirded out by American evangelical support. Kind of like how Mr. Incredible felt about Buddy.
The evangelicals would enjoy nothing more than to actually face persecution. By the very Jews of the Bible no less. Their smugness would be off the charts.