Cardinal Pizzaballa was joined by other churchmen in majority-Christian town, Taybeh, and called for a probe into arson attacks resulting in destruction of a church.
Taybeh is the sole Christian-majority town on the West Bank of the Jordan. It suffered arson attacks by Jewish settlers, and a church and cemetery were burned.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his thanks to American evangelical Christian leaders for their support of the Jewish state in the midst of war in Gaza.
Democrats have been tilting away from the center, and have an evolving attitude towards Israel. Fealty to a toxic woke ideology is linked to their worries about offending anti-Semitic voters.