Christian Anti-Israel Animus Grades Into Antisemitism

There is an illuminating discussion of the roots of the current wave of anti-Israel animus, that in its virulence is often indistinguishable from antisemitism, here.

…Last Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem claimed in a statement that “a sniper of the IDF murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war. No warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the parish, where there are no belligerents.”

How does the Latin Patriarchate, which has a long record of anti-Israel animus that no doubt is a reflection of its desire, as a dhimmi group, to curry favor with its Muslim masters, come to claim that the IDF murdered two Christian women? On what evidence did it make this charge? There is no evidence. The Hamas has made that astonishing claim, and the Latin Patriarchate chooses to blindly parrot Hamas. The IDF has firmly rejected the accusation. It notes that its soldiers were nowhere near the Holy Family Parish church at the time of the killing. The Latin Patriarchate refuses to consider the IDF’s version of events; it knows it must repeat Hamas’ accusation that the IDF killed the women if it wants to avoid problems with the Muslim terror group.

This incendiary allegation [of the IDF killing two Christian women in cold blood] was repeated uncritically as fact across the western media.

The following day, however, Fox News reported an IDF statement that an incident took place instead “near the Latin Church in the Shejayia area,” a different church altogether in another part of Gaza where IDF troops had “operated against a threat that they identified in the area of the church”.

The IDF set the record straight the day after the Latin Patriarchate, prompted by Hamas, made its accusation. Its soldiers had not been anywhere near the Holy Family Parish church, but at the Latin Church a fair distance away. But none of the reports in the international media carried that information. The media continued to report only that the Latin Patriarchate had said — repeating the script supplied by Hamas — that “a sniper of the IDF murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war. No warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the parish, where there are no belligerents.” It’s a sensational charge of cold-blooded murder of two women inside a church, just what Hamas — those operatives were the real killers — was hoping for.

Now why would the IDF have sent soldiers inside the Holy Family Parish to shoot “in cold blood” two Christian women? What possible benefit could it derive? None, of course. But Hamas derives a very great benefit from killing the women and then attributing the killing to the IDF, a charge the Latin Patriarchate, in dhimmi fashion, repeated and in so doing, helped Hamas to whip up, among Christians around the world, anti-Israel sentiment.

The following day, however, Fox News reported an IDF statement that an incident took place instead “near the Latin Church in the Shejayia area,” a different church altogether in another part of Gaza where IDF troops had “operated against a threat that they identified in the area of the church”.

The Elder of Zion website reported that this didn’t stop The Christian Post from claiming the IDF had “confirmed” it had shot and killed the two women “on the grounds of Gaza City’s only Catholic church”. Yet confusingly, the paper also said the IDF had “confirmed” to Fox News that the incident took place near the church in the Shejayia area of Gaza during an operation against Hamas terrorists.

The Christian Post is either terminally confused or lying. The IDF never ”confirmed” that it had killed the two women. In fact, it said quite the opposite, insisting that it was sure that none of its soldiers were any where near the Holy Family Parish at the time of their killing. Nor had the IDF “confirmed” that the killing of the women had taken place not at Holy Parish Church, as the Latin Patriarchate had said, but instead at the Latin Church. This change in the narrative was made by The Christian Post in order to make sure that the IDF, which had said it had been operating near the Latin Church, would be held responsible.

Cui bono? Only Hamas, a serial liar, benefited from the killing of the two women at the Holy Parish Church., a killing that it attributed to the IDF. The IDF flatly denies any responsibility; it has declared its forces were nowhere near that church. Whom should we believe? Hamas, with its long record of lies, or the IDF, with its long record of truth-telling? You know the answer to that.

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Stephen Honig

4 months ago

I can’t believe the church would say this. Maybe they’re held hostage or threatened by the Muslims. The pope should say something.

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