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Jews are being canceled to placate bigots

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Jews are being shut out of their communities because cowards don’t want to upset the “pro-Palestine” set.

Spineless organizers at LoveLight Placemaking in Williamsburg, Va., nixed a menorah lighting at the 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival for fear of riling up loons who might see any symbol or celebration of Judaism as taking sides in the Israel-Hamas war.

The festival’s founder, Shirley Vermillion, said the celebration “seemed very inappropriate”; her outfit didn’t want to give the impression it was “siding with a group over the other.”

LoveLight claims it has “never held a religious program” but also insists its refusal was “based on . . . a sincere desire to make this monthly event a place where all people can come together.”

“All people” except Jews?

But perhaps not offending antisemites is more important.

As The United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula noted, the menorah lighting led by a local rabbi “had nothing to do with Israel or the conflict.”

Driving the truth home, the festival organizers apparently offered to let the event go ahead — as long as it was done under a banner calling for a cease-fire.

Nor is that a unique incident: Westbrook, Maine, removed a Star of David from a holiday light display, replacing it with a dreidel, after getting complaints that the Jewish symbol was “offensive” in the context of the war.

And city in New Brunswick, Canada, abruptly ended a 20-year tradition of setting up a menorah display at City Hall.

This is blatant catering to bigots, and doing it in the name of sensitivity, only makes the bigotry all the more ignorant.

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