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Hello Morgan. You are missing a couple of important events.
Hello Sabolina. You are missing a couple of important events.
The Jews have been Persecuted for 2000 years.
Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries
The correspondence of Gregory I tells us something about attempts at the forced conversion of the Jews. He favors their becoming Christians, unsurprisingly, but demands justice in their regard under the terms of Roman Law. From his letters we learn a few things about Jews in the empire toward the year 600: that some were deeply involved in the slave trade; that Jews lived untroubled lives among Christians in certain regions and were dealt with cruelly in others; and that close living brought irritations in its wake because of over-vigorous chanting in adjacent synagogues and churches. The papal correspondence was, by and large, protective of Jewish rights, while continuing to assume their subordinate position in society.
Such was not the case in the century that followed Gregory’s papacy. At the same time, the expulsion of Jews was beginning in Europe; from France under King Dagobert (626) and under the Spanish monarchy—with church collusion—when in 694 the Jews were required to choose between baptism and slavery. These moves appear to be based on religion, but history has shown that all such expulsions and persecutions are dependent on other factors such as politics, xenophobia, and scapegoating. The unique factor was that the Christians arrived early at the erroneous conclusion that the Jews were being divinely punished for not having come over to their way of belief. Even when religious difference had little or nothing to do with specific Christian antagonisms to Jews, it could always be alleged as the root rationale for Christian behavior.
In the years 500-1500 the Jews, as a religious and a cultural minority, were often preyed upon by the Christian majority in a familiar sociological pattern. The papal record is consistently mixed. Harsh infringements of Jewish rights are censured at the same time that restrictions are imposed on their full participation in society. The vocabulary of guilt for Jesus’ crucifixion and charges of stubbornness and blindness recur.
Still, as many historians of Judaism have observed, these infringements of civil and social liberty never approached the point of the elimination of the Jewish people entirely—a terrifying first from the Nazi era.
Greta is no longer the darling of the establishment . I wonder what happened
Alan MacLeod Friday 6 Jun 25
Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.”
Darling? She spoke at the UN and they didn’t exactly take her advice. Her age she made her an interesting item for media but now she is doing the hard work, not just sound bites and photo ops
Once celebrated as the ‘darling’ of climate activism, Greta Thunberg is now rarely mentioned in mainstream media. When she is, the same media that once applauded her now vilifies her as a ‘militant pro-Palestine mouthpiece’.
Why?
Because Greta no longer fits the palatable mold the media created for her. She no longer solely speaks about clean air, oceans and planting trees. Instead, she’s expanded her fight to include a deeper critique of the systems driving the climate crisis: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. She has also taken a bold and necessary stand for Palestinian liberation, calling out the genocide and its interconnectedness with climate justice.
This silencing of women isn’t new. Women who challenge the status quo are often dismissed, vilified, or labeled as ‘too militant’.
But, we must understand - ALL our fights are interconnected. The fight for climate justice is no different from the fight for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. The same systems that destroy the planet - patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism - deny women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ people their bodily autonomy, force pregnancies, and strip marginalized communities of their rights. Whether it is climate justice, Palestinian liberation, or SRHRJ, we are fighting the same systems of oppression."
I would say israel would kidnap her and Liam and kill some others. Would be interesting to see CFI response on their platform within their framework of secular humanism
