While the world celebrates Christmas, human rights groups show no concern that Christians are the most persecuted religious group today. Christian churches are regularly attacked and Christians are murdered in Egypt and Nigeria, Christians are persecuted and killed in Pakistan and are discriminated against in the Palestinian territories, yet the best that the media and human rights groups can do is to condemn Israel. In a recent article, Reuters condemned Israel for the dwindling population of Christians in Gaza, totally ignoring the fact that it is local discrimination that is driving the Christians out of those places. In fact, Israel is the only Middle Eastern country with a thriving and growing Christian population. [Photograph: Haifa, Israel 2020]