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Very sad, I guess no one is going to answer my question how they would feel if Yerushalayim turned into a china-town.
There is no reason why the people on the St Louis would have changed the look and character of the town if said town had rules and regulation regarding zoning, dress-code, etc
There are many towns that preserve buildings going back to the 1700s and have zoning laws regarding the type of look certain buildings must abide to. All the minor details would have to go through a committee of some sort. But law and politics makes this impossible in many towns, to set rules maintaining the culture of their home town- and you cant blame the people for getting upset. Especially if its a small town where people grew up in generation after generation.
But the basic idea is that its dishonest to call “not wanting the place you and your parents and grandparents grew up to drastically change in one generation” anti-semtism. Especially when you would feel the same way if thousands of Chinese started moving into Yerushalayim and opened restaurants with mandarin signs all over the place selling roasted pork outside of their store fronts.