1.) Christ was a dissident Jew, who railed against the Temple of his day, was & remains rejected by mainstream Jewry, & is regularly mocked in Israel by Jews who consider him a false messiah.
2.) Today in 2024, rabid Orthodox Jews in Israel make a habit of spitting at Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem, Israeli authorities have recently tried to reduce the negative western publicity, by stating its ‘an old Jewish custom to spit towards Christians’, …as if that helps.