English soccer team Liverpool sends and then deletes a Rosh Hashanah Tweet after protests against the Tweet as the Jerusalem Post reports. Rational people might ask why. The answer is given by the article's title: Liverpool deleted the tweet after 'anti-Semitic posts'. Yes, you did read that right.
How judgemental is our society that wishing Jewish people the world over a happy new year is something that attracts so many offensive responses that it must be removed from Twitter? How crazy has our society become that a world-famous club like Liverpool lets a bunch of haters dictate who they can openly and permanently wish a happy new year to? What's next, protests and hate-tweets in response to 'Merry Christmas' Tweets or those wishing Christians and people in the western world a 'Happy New year' at the end of December?
"Folks, as we start our descent, please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position. Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened and all carry-on luggage is stowed underneath the seat in front of you or in the overhead bins.* All passengers are reminded that when exiting the time machine, one will be entering Europe as it was in the nineteen-thirties. Period clothing is required, Please turn off all electronic devices until we are safely parked at the gate. Thank you."
“Liverpool FC would like to wish all our Jewish supporters around the world a happy new year. #RoshHashanah,” the tweet read. A few hours later, the tweet was removed after the anti-Semitic abuse ensued. The story was originally reported by The Guardian.
“Due to a number of offensive comments that were attached to a tweet on the official LFC twitter account, the tweet and comments have since been removed from the account,” the club told the Guardian.
Source: English soccer club Liverpool deletes Rosh HaShanah tweet after anti-Semitic posts, The Jerusalem Post
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How judgemental is our society that wishing Jewish people the world over a happy new year is something that attracts so many offensive responses that it must be removed from Twitter? How crazy has our society become that a world-famous club like Liverpool lets a bunch of haters dictate who they can openly and permanently wish a happy new year to? What's next, protests and hate-tweets in response to 'Merry Christmas' Tweets or those wishing Christians and people in the western world a 'Happy New year' at the end of December?
"Folks, as we start our descent, please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position. Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened and all carry-on luggage is stowed underneath the seat in front of you or in the overhead bins.* All passengers are reminded that when exiting the time machine, one will be entering Europe as it was in the nineteen-thirties. Period clothing is required, Please turn off all electronic devices until we are safely parked at the gate. Thank you."
Is this really where our world is heading? Are we going back to the 1930s, back to hating, attacking and persecuting Jewish people throughout Europe? Can't we see that it won't stop at Jewish people, gays, gypsies and minorities this time? Already, the Yazidi people, the Kurdish people and Iraqi Christians are targets, are being mistreated and even slaughtered because they are not Muslim. Speaking of, even other Muslims are executed when they happen to disagree with the terrorists claiming to be members of the "Islamic State" which only goes to show that no-one is safe from these people and their horrors.
When will we learn that hatred, persecution, murder and mass annihilation are not the answer? When will we learn that the only way forward for the entire world is to stop hating people simply because of who they are, for how they were born?
We can't change who we are and how we were born, however we CAN change how we act and how we treat others. We can change what we accept as normal behaviour and we can change how we respond to threats, extremism and hate. I believe that it is time to do just that: To change. We need to stand up, each and everyone one of us, and work towards making the world a more tolerant, accepting and friendly place. Before we are all blown to bits by a bunch of terrorists, if at all possible.
* In-flight announcement adapted from Air Odyssey