I have mixed feeling about this sign.

If it was "by an authoritarian, imperialist government and a corrupt law system," then yes.

But "keepers of the law" sounds like "Pharisees" to me, and that& #39;s a delicate way of accusing Jews, yet again, of killing Jesus. https://twitter.com/cubosh/status/1273060886601707521">https://twitter.com/cubosh/st...

Christians, you need to learn about the different Jewish authorities of the first century, and also learn about how the writers of the Gospel accounts had a vested interest in playing up Jewish guilt and downplaying Roman culpability.

By the 4th century, when the Bible was roughly codified and Christianity was the state religion of Rome, Jews had revolted against Rome and were crushed. They were suspect in the Empire.

The early church wanted in with power. So they scapegoated Jewish authority.

Jewish religious authority couldn& #39;t crucify Jesus. That was a Roman form of execution.

And Pilate didn& #39;t ever wash his hands. He was so bloody and over-the-top that Rome recalled him as governor of Roman Palestine. Which almost never happened. He was beyond extra.

So the wording here is uncomfortably ambiguous. And when that ambiguity exists, it allows Jews to be blamed, to be framed as having institutional power in their own colonised country.

And that feeds into toxic ideas about disproportionate Jewish power and influence today.

Don& #39;t blow the dogwhistle of anti-Semitism. Not when the government is blaring it like a foghorn.

Don& #39;t punch down. Especially not for a pithy church sign to go viral.

There are Black Jews. This shit hurts them. Think about that, too.