Vatican removes nativity display featuring baby Jesus lying on keffiyeh

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https://www.thejc.com/news/world/vatican-removes-nativity-display-featuring-baby-jesus-lying-on-keffiyeh-fvrdcbbf

The wooden statue was criticised by Jewish groups for reinforcing the trope that Jesus was a Palestinian.

The backlash came almost immediately from religious entities and individuals worldwide.

On Monday, B’nai B’rith International described feeling “disturbed by the Vatican display of a Palestinian-made nativity scene featuring Jesus on a keffiyeh and the pope’s appearance with it.” The group said the display “isn’t just politicisation, but revisionism. It presents (only) Palestinians as innocent victims—and Jesus as a Palestinian, not a Jew.”

In response to the display’s removal, David Parsons, senior vice president and spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, noted that “we are relieved at reports that the Vatican has decided to remove the provocative nativity display with an infant Jesus resting on a black-and-white keffiyeh, which is an unmistakable symbol of Palestinian nationalism.”

He said “This crèche not only denigrated Jewish heritage, it also undermined core tenets of the Christian faith. Indeed, millions of Christians worldwide were instantly incensed by this exhibit ahead of the Christmas season. The Vatican did the right thing in taking it down.”

Parsons described the display as “theological malpractice for the Holy See to allow this display to remain. For if Jesus was a Palestinian Arab, then he would not have qualified to be Christ, the promised messiah and savior of the world.”

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These guys feel abused by the keffiyeh as much as I feel disgusted by the Yeezreali flag. So I can understand it.

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The difference is I definitely couldn't go up to my nearest American synagogue and meddle in their affairs and tell them to take down their Israeli flags because it makes me feel unsafe. The gall of the people who would go to a church and complain about how they recognize their religious figures. The audacity.

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Synagogues display Yeezreali flags? Lol.

It’s desecration.

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All the ones around me do

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They wouldn’t dare in Europe. They know the feelings. It would be provocative and asking for trouble.

One journalist for that pro-Yeezreali rag the Daily Telegraph, ran through Oxford city centre in the UK) with a Yeezreali flag. And then came back and wrote a long whine on the ‘warm’ reception she received and the ‘anti-semitism’ at the University. What did she expect, claps and hugs?

The dislike for what is going on in Gaza runs deep. You don’t want to be wearing Yeezreali emblems or flags.

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I find that hard to believe, just knowing how brazen zionists are. You're honestly telling me that European synagogues don't display Israeli flags?

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Well actually I don’t know where the synagogues are where I live, or mosques for that matter. Haven’t felt the need to visit them.

I think it’s very unlikely that synagogues and schools would display them. These are European Jews, different from the U.S. variety who have more support amongst the populace.

They can’t be too brazen. Yeezreal is poison at the moment, and that’s likely to stay for some decades imo.

I mean no one goes around targeting Jews, it just doesn’t happen, but it’s wiser for Jews to keep a lower profile while the Yeezreali killings are beamed into living rooms every day.

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I think you're living in an alternate reality. The synagogues, JCCs, Jewish schools etc all around me are awash with Israeli flags, hostage posters, yellow ribbons, and other such symbols. I bet if you actually saw the ones around you you'd see the same. There's nowhere in the Western world right now where such displays are toxic in any way. 

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You live in the US. I am speaking about Europe.

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Yes and Europe is as pro-zionist as the US, if not more so. 

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The best I can do is locate a synagogue and go have a look. Sorry can’t productively say any more.

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Or read a newspaper

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What’s with the aggression? I’m on your side.