Jewish settlers are now entering Jesus’s hometown of Bethlehem to displace the Christian population and make it Jewish. In November of 2025, Jewish settler gangs began setting lands on fire in the predominantly Christian town of Beit Sahur which right next to Bethlehem, a clear sign that they are now planning on fully entering Bethlehem. In a video released from the village, you can see bulldozers clearing out the land to prepare for three thousand settler houses right on the Shepherds’ Fields (the place of the Annunciation of Christ’s birth) in Bethlehem. Imad al-Atrash, who is in charge of wildlife preservation in the Shepherds Fields, spoke of how the settlers are draining their sewage on agricultural areas and how the Israeli government is planning to put three thousand houses on the land:
“Even the sewage they drain on agricultural fields”
“As they said, they will put three thousand houses for settlers on this spot”
Here is a photo showing the plan in which you can see the space they want to use to establish settlements on:
According to legan analyst Hassan Briejay, the plan is to sever the East, West, North and South vicinities of Bethlehem from having access to downtown Bethlehem (the birthplace of Christ), and by this, exhaust the Christian and Muslim populations to force them to leave and give up their lands.
Jewish settlers placed their caravans on a hill known by locals as Ush al-Ghurab and announced the creation of a Jewish settlement that they call “Shdema.” According to Mondoweiss:
A predominantly Christian town, residents of Beit Sahour tell Mondoweiss that the encroaching settler presence threatens the existence of the largest remaining Palestinian Christian community in the West Bank.
According to a report by the Balasan Initiative for Human Rights, the new Shdema outpost “marks a substantial escalation in Israel’s settlement expansion and territorial consolidation in the Bethlehem district.”
The same report states:
“The emergence of the Shdema settlement must be understood as part of a broader territorial strategy designed to reshape the demographic and geographic reality between Jerusalem and the Bethlehem hinterland … The consequences for Beit Sahour’s residents are significant and multifaceted.”
Rifat Kassis, General Coordinator of Kairos Palestine and a local in Beit Sahour, told Mondoweiss that the Jewish settlement “is a direct assault on the heart of the Christian presence in Palestine.” Kassis has sent this warning to the Christian world:
“By confiscating what remains of our towns’ open spaces and tightening the ring of settlements around Beit Sahour and Bethlehem, this project threatens the very existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the Holy Land …If allowed to continue, it will be the last nail in the coffin of the Christians’ presence in Palestine, accelerating displacement, severing social cohesion, and pushing more families to forced migration.”
The mayor of Beit Sahur, Dr. Elias Iseed, wrote that this settlement “is not simply a construction project,” but “an act of dispossession. … It is being built directly upon Palestinians’ lands, homes, and backyards, stealing the soil from beneath peaceful families who have lived here for generations”.
Settler groups, under the supervision of the so-called “Gush Etzion Regional Council,” are carrying out extensive land-clearing operations in the area in preparation for establishing a new Israeli settlement outpost. This action is part of Israel’s systematic policy of Judaizing and seizing Palestinian lands, and denying Palestinians their right to build and expand on what remains of Palestinian land after the Israeli occupation authorities seized vast areas through the construction of Israeli settlements, bypass roads, the apartheid wall, and other settlement infrastructure.
A children’s hospital was suppose to be built in Beit Sahur, but the Jewish settlers got the Israeli government to cancel its construction. According to the Balasan report, there were 100 dunams (about 25 acres) that “had been earmarked for public facilities” in Beit Sahaur such as “a children’s hospital to be built, recreational areas, cultural center, green space, and community hall, plans that had already begun implementation with donor support before settler pressure forced their suspension.”
According to Peace Now, an Israeli organization that exposes settler evils, the outpost “is intended to choke the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour and block its development”. In other words, these Jewish fanatics want to displace one of the oldest Christian population in history. The Balasan report speaks of how the settlers want to do “demographic pressure” on the Christian town, by limiting its urban development and pushing for “the displacement of its population, mainly composed of Palestinian Christians.” The same report states that “the settlement plays a symbolic and cultural role in the ongoing effort to entrench an exclusive Zionist narrative in the area”. By “zionist narrative” its basically saying that these settlers are arguing that the Christian town was promised to them by God three thousand years, and thus they have the right to dechristianize the population and make it entirely Jewish. “Israeli settler groups have repeatedly invoked biblical justifications for taking over the site,” the report says. “These ideological assertions accompany attempts to rebrand the area as part of a ‘return of Jews to Bethlehem,’ a rhetoric deployed to normalize settler presence and obscure the illegality of the project under international law.”
The settlers are anti-Christian, being possessed by the spirit of antichrist, and if you think they do not have desires of purging the land of Christians, here is a video of a Christian in Israel having to restrain a Jewish fanatic who had just destroyed an icon of Jesus:
Here is a video of a Jew in Israel telling a Christian that the “godly thing to do is to kill you”:
This harkens back to what Christ prophesied, when the Disciples asked Him about the time of His return: “before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.” (Luke 21:12) Christ told us about persecution by the Jews towards the Church, and so this anti-Christianity in Israel should be of no surprise to us.