"No sympathy expressed so far.
Just sneering and hate."

It's difficult to have sympathy when in the US there are fundamentalist Christian religious figures and organizations that are inflicting their evangelistic beliefs on others claiming some kind of godly authority, often with violence.

I suspect an agenda here. We know that there are Jews for Jesus, and the fundamentalist prophecy of "end times" involves the domination of Israel over
its "enemies". We know that there are active fundamentalist groups who are
defending Israel's right to subjugate Palestinians because they are "heathens".
In fact, if you explore the bible, you'll find that the Palestinian people were referred
to in the Old Testament as "Philistines".

It's remarkable that the government of Israel encourages such an agenda on the part of fundamentalist Christians.

Christian "victimhood" is being used as a political ploy by these Fundamentalist
Christians to vindicate their employment of coercion and evangelism. They feel
that somehow they are closer to Jesus through persecution when in fact, the majority of US citizens are Christian and many exploit those citizens who are not.
These exploitive people do not deserve sympathy but a sad rebuke instead.

If Jesus existed, what we he say about his exploitive followers? What would
he say about the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza today?