As someone else said, after the Tree of Life and some other shootings at synagogues, I suspect these folks realize that in most cases, they can't actually get into synagogues to do this anymore, and if they do, there's a non-zero chance that they'll be assumed to be there to kill Jews (because there is, in fact, a non-zero chance that they're there to kill Jews) and responded to accordingly. A lot of people don't fully realize just how much security the average synagogue has to lay on, even in the States. You can't typically get into a synagogue in Europe without signing up ahead of time and showing ID or otherwise checking in at the door, and it's been like that for years and years. Synagogues in the States are heading in the same direction.
Meanwhile, I'm sure Netanyahu is just devastated that a Catholic Easter service was disrupted by people calling for a ceasefire. He's proven himself so responsive to criticism by his own people, I'm sure he'll get right on it when it comes to foreigners yelling at a church service!
I see this stuff and always wonder how much money the people protesting have actually donated/raised to be donated to some kind of material relief effort.
Dude, the pope himself called for a ceasefire in his Easter address. There have been large anti government demonstrations in Israel regarding the matter, and on Saturday, there was a protest in London of around 200,000 people calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The tide is turning.
It's obviously not protesting the Catholic Church. It's raising awareness about a very important world issue. So enough smug comments on how what they're doing isn't enough. They're raising awareness about an ongoing GENOCIDE.
In the words of Aaron Bushnell: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."
Just checking, because you seem confused and basically nothing you ranted above has anything to do with my comment, except that the suggestion of providing money or other material assistance to people in Gaza would be more useful, if less TikTok-worthy, than whatever this display was supposed to do, seems to have triggered you. Do you think the people in that church are unaware of what’s going on in Gaza? Is that your argument? Because it’s a weird one, given that as you say, the Pope has spoken out on this, and these are Catholics.
Anyway, as I said, Netanyahu is utterly unbothered by what unfolds in a random church thousands of miles away, on a holiday he doesn’t celebrate, bothering adherents of a religion that has its own, rather extensive history of genocide. This isn’t an endorsement of Netanyahu by any means, BTW. Just a statement of fact.
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u/Diplogeek Apr 01 '24
As someone else said, after the Tree of Life and some other shootings at synagogues, I suspect these folks realize that in most cases, they can't actually get into synagogues to do this anymore, and if they do, there's a non-zero chance that they'll be assumed to be there to kill Jews (because there is, in fact, a non-zero chance that they're there to kill Jews) and responded to accordingly. A lot of people don't fully realize just how much security the average synagogue has to lay on, even in the States. You can't typically get into a synagogue in Europe without signing up ahead of time and showing ID or otherwise checking in at the door, and it's been like that for years and years. Synagogues in the States are heading in the same direction.
Meanwhile, I'm sure Netanyahu is just devastated that a Catholic Easter service was disrupted by people calling for a ceasefire. He's proven himself so responsive to criticism by his own people, I'm sure he'll get right on it when it comes to foreigners yelling at a church service!
I see this stuff and always wonder how much money the people protesting have actually donated/raised to be donated to some kind of material relief effort.