Mick Hartley

The Times, for instance:

The Israeli authorities have backed down in the face of an international outcry after the Patriarch of Jerusalem was blocked by police from conducting a Palm Sunday service in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Police stopped the Latin Patriarch — the head of the Roman Catholic church in Jerusalem — from entering the church in the Old City, supposedly on the site of Christ’s tomb, on Sunday morning.

Only then – after the compulsory “bad Israel” bit – do we get the truth.

There is a temporary ban on large gatherings in the Old City because of safety concerns over missiles fired from Iran.