You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who…

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

— Winston Churchill

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

— Elliott Abrams

“By 629, the Byzantines were in control of Jerusalem again. Although Jews scrambled to make peace with the authorities, Christian religious leaders demanded that…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

— Naftali Bennett

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman…

— Elaine Pagels

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust…

— Elie Wiesel

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that…

— N. T. Wright

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have…

— Christopher Hitchens

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can…

— Norman Finkelstein

In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my…

— Menachem Begin

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned…

— Nat Hentoff