On Palm Sunday, the anniversary of the Jewish Rabbi Jesus Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem preparatory to Passover and His Passion, many in the West — including a horrifying number of American politicians, religious leaders, and influencers — proved how grossly anti-Jewish they were. Without the barest fact-checking, these Westerners screamed that Israel’s government denied Christians access to the Holy Sepulcher in a targeted and unjustified action. Meanwhile, most of those people ignored actual persecution of Christians in Syria and Nigeria.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was temporarily closed (Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu generously reached out to serially anti-Israel Latin Abp. Pizzaballa after he misrepresented his exclusion) because the Islamic Iranian regime has repeatedly fired missiles at Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sites in Old City Jerusalem, damaging the church in the process. Israeli government accounts have been warning for days that the Holy Sepulcher might be closed during Holy Week to avoid civilian casualties. But hundreds of thousands of Westerners chose to express their outrage about the closure without even bothering to see if the Israeli government had explained why it happened or if the closure was specific to a Christian church.
When Iranian missile struck near to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, @sanchezcastejon had nothing to say.
— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) March 29, 2026
Sánchez — who won’t even wish Spanish citizens with a “Merry Christmas” — never misses an opportunity to incite against Israel.
Israel is committed to freedom… https://t.co/z6MLo0DKp9 pic.twitter.com/qTwSTkQUf6
That same mass outrage did not occur over the slaughter of nearly a dozen Nigerian Christians on Palm Sunday, nor over multiple attacks on Syrian Christians over the weekend. European media outlet Visegrád 24 reported that Muslim Fulani militants killed at least 12 in a Palm Sunday massacre in Angwan Rukuba, Plateau state, Nigeria.
BREAKING: New footage shows the aftermath of the massacre carried out on Palm Sunday by Islamists against Christians in Nigeria.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 30, 2026
A mother holds her son for the last time.
https://t.co/HhMoAQVrWh
Related: Israeli Ministry Describes Genocide of Syrian Christians as Holy Week Begins
How very selective, self-righteous Western antisemites are about their hysteria. They weren’t concerned about persecuted Christians; they just made an assumption that the Holy Sepulcher was closed unjustly because they have a trigger reaction to claims that Jews are anti-Christian. In reality — and this is very painful to admit — it is we Christians who most often cause the division and spread the hate against Jews, now as for many centuries. The real villains here are the Islamic Jihadis actually persecuting Christians in multiple Middle Eastern and African nations, not the Israelis. Why are so many Westerners fixated on griping about peaceful Jews, while constantly overlooking the Islamic persecution of Christians?
Syrian Christians have been reduced from over 2 million to barely 300,000. Now they are under attack again.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) March 27, 2026
As we will soon enter the Holy Week, the very communities that have kept the faith alive for 2,000 years are facing violence, fear, and extinction.
Pray for Syria’s… https://t.co/E9LtvzHNZ3
There is excellent reason for the Israeli government to be worried about a mass casualty event. Islamic jihadis frequently step up their attacks on Jews and Christians on the occasion of Jewish and Christian holidays, including Christmas, Passover, Hanukkah, Good Friday, Yom Kippur, and Easter. And since the Iranian regime, as mentioned above, has already repeatedly fired missiles at Old City Jerusalem, there is every reason to believe the regime will increase rather than decrease its attacks during Holy Week. By the way, the Iranian regime is still firing missiles at civilian targets and executing dissidents as of Monday morning.
Passover begins this week, but Jews were denied access to the Western Wall of the last Temple because of the safety measures. There was no targeted shuttering of a Christian church; the Jewish and Muslim sites near the Holy Sepulcher are also closed.
Wake up, my fellow Christians. Stop wasting your outrage on the only government in the Middle East that gives Christians equal rights and tries to save Christian lives instead of ending them. Stop having ill-informed and dangerous trigger attacks against Israel at a time when violent antisemitism is at an ever-increasing and perilous level worldwide. Jews and Christians should be coming together in unity this week of Passover and Easter, not fighting while Muslims kill both Jews and Christians.
