Merthyr Tydfil’s annual Holocaust memorial service not held because of fears over reaction to Gaza conflict

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  1. If you don’t stand for something you fall for anything. Way to miss the point Merthyr, great job!

  3. “due to a shortage of staff and a lack of funding” also mentioned (and I would speculate the more significant reason, as with many of these controversies).

    Pathetic either way to use current events as an excuse, or to genuinely believe it’s a reason not to do it.

  4. Isit fears of protests or isit becaue of lack of funding??

    Same waffle & same papers trying to stoke up hate

  5. To be fair I would bet money on a pro Palestine protest being there to counter it… Shameful world we live in.

  6. “We cannot remember our heroes over potentially upsetting some other country” fucking pathetic.

  7. Why would pro-palestinians go after random Jews in a foreign land celebrating a memorial to the worst genocide in history who have nothing to do with Israel based solely on their ethnicity?

    I thought the pro Pallies were the good guys?

  8. Its about not forgetting the past, the people should turn up anyway

  9. I am fully on the anti-Israel side in this particular conflict (despite the fact I understand it’s a very complicated geopolitical situation not entirely b/w) but either side of this annoys me quite a bit.

    Why in the ever loving fuck would anyone who cares about Palestine or hold anti-Israel sentiment harass a Holocaust memorial? I don’t understand why those people don’t have the common sense and political literacy to fucking disassociate Jews as a whole from Israel the nation/its government. To then go even further and harass and deny Holocaust memorials is heinous and unconscionable.

    On the flip side, DONT GIVE IN TO THAT SHIT! Why the hell would you cancel the fucking memorial??? Grow a fucking spine, you can’t let mental holocaust deniers and anti-semites bully you into cancelling this stuff that is absolutely insane to me. Spineless behaviour considering the bravery of people who actually suffered through the holocaust.

  10. I’ve been protesting against the ongoing nightmare in Palestine, and I would never have protested against a Holocaust memorial service at all. They don’t even feel like connected issues to me—this is insane. I don’t know a single person currently protesting for Palestine who has an issue with Jewish people. Their issue is with Israel. This is pure bullshit.

  11. Did anyone actually read the article? They couldn’t afford the church service. They still had the memorial

  12. Its mostly an excuse to save funding but its given a culture war paint job to make ot palatable

    “An annual equality report which went before the council’s corporate support and resources committee on February 18 said Merthyr Leisure Trust informed the council it took the decision not to organise the usual church service due to a shortage of staff and a lack of funding, as well as staff concerns about adverse reactions to the conflict in Gaza.”

  13. Back in 1831 the people of Merthyr had the balls to stand up for something they believed in.

    I 2025 the Labour Party in charge of Merthyr are too afraid to do anything.

  14. Criticism of a state, is not criticism of a race or religion.

    This is a bad decision, and pretty ignorant.

  15. Second paragraph down:

    “An annual equality report which went before the council’s corporate support and resources committee on February 18 said Merthyr Leisure Trust informed the council it took the decision not to organise the usual church service due to a shortage of staff and a lack of funding, as well as staff concerns about adverse reactions to the conflict in Gaza.”

    There weren’t the resources to hold a church service and the Gaza thing was tacked on for some reason.

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