Posted on 05/30/2005 6:21:21 AM PDT by SJackson
The Anglican Church is to consider a report calling for it to dispose of its holdings in companies doing business with Israelis who "support the occupation of Palestinian lands," a move that is being roundly criticized by some of the UK's top Jewish officials, the British daily newspaper The Times reported Saturday.
The report calling for disinvestment is to be debated by the worldwide Anglican Church in Nottingham on June 22. It mirrors a program already begun by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., The Times reported.
The report was condemned by Britain's Jewish community on Friday night. Irene Lancaster, a research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Manchester University and the author of Deconstructing the Bible, described it as "crass, one-sided and anti-Semitic."
"The document is full of innuendo and supercessionist language and aims to separate Jew from Jew in Israel, which is a very common phenomenon in Jewish history," Lancaster told The Times.
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You are correct in the phrase. Here we go again and its 2005. Yeesh.
The Anglican Church should work on getting its own house in order before talking about Israel. The number of Christians in the UK is on the decline.
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