Let’s say it’s September 20, 2001. If you were outraged by the jihad attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and wanted to stage a protest, would you invade a gathering of New York City firefighters — let’s say a funeral for one of the first responders who’d died in the towers’ rubble?
What should we think about a group of 9/11 “victims’ advocates” who did something like that? What would their choice of target for their protest tell us about them?
It would tell us that they weren’t really sincere. That they had some other agenda, completely unrelated to the fates of the 9/11 victims, whose corpses they were picking up and cynically using as cudgels. Maybe such protestors would prove to be radical anarchists who hated the Fire Department because it was an arm of “oppressive” government. Perhaps they’d turn out to be led by foreign agents, eager to engender chaos.
The one thing we wouldn’t conclude is that they were sincere citizens outraged by the deaths of the New Yorkers whom firefighters had tried to save.
And we must draw similar, cynical conclusions about the so-called “Gaza advocates” who invaded a Catholic church service in Armagh, Ireland on December 22. […]
Pro-Palestine protesters in Ireland stormed the Catholic Armagh Cathedral during Mass to protest the Catholic Church’s “silence on Gaza.”
They actually held “Jesus was Palestinian” signs while disrupting Mass. So incredibly mentally ill pic.twitter.com/YkfbFGODkj
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) December 3, 2024
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