The Sanhedrin Rabbis have issued a call to the public to "rise up in prayer and protest in order to preserve the nation's dignity, and to demonstrate in an organized group with mesirut nefesh­ – [a willingness to die for one's cause if need be].

The rabbis determined that the nation was sinking into the defilements of the land of Canaan, which are presented as an achievement, when in fact they represent a pagan Cannanite tradition.