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Quakers view the Palestinian narrative as just and righteous by Asaf Romirowsky, The Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2024
The Quaker narrative is full of Holocaust inversion, slogans accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide, and highlighting the “good Jews” from Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP).
Jewish-Christian Relations Are Suffering by Yehuda Kurtzer, Tablet, April 13, 2022
Privileging allyship over understanding injects an unhealthy amount of partisan political strategy into interfaith encounters.
Time To Bring Anti-Zionist Anachronisms To an End by Dexter Van Zile, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), October 28, 2020
[B]y stripping Jesus of his Jewish identity and turning his early followers into Palestinians, commentators reduce the Jews of first century Jerusalem into enemies of Jesus and therefore God. [….] It’s a clear insult to the rights of Jews as an indigenous people.
A ”Guide” to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by the United Church of Christ by Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute, September 15, 2019
Catholic Peace Group Affirms “Logic” of Killing American Jews for What Israel Does by Dexter Van Zile, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), July 19, 2019
BDS for Thee, But Not for Me by Dexter Van Zile, The Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2019
The PA is not alone in its hypocrisy. The fake divestment resolution of the United Church of Christ (UCC) was a con from the very beginning.
BDS Charade: United Church of Christ’s ‘Divestment’ From Israel by Dexter Van Zile, The Algemeiner, January 3, 2019 (see also Surprise! Another Church Group Fund Has Proscribed Pro-Israel Stocks by Dexter Van Zile, The Algemeiner, January 10, 2019
Protestant Churches Finding Balance On Israel by Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week, October 3, 2018
Mennonites and BDS: A Lawsuit Amid a Legacy by Edwin Black, HuffPost, November 27, 2017
How the Quakers Became Champions of BDS by Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander Joffe, Tablet, November 10, 2017
A century-old religiously based pacifist organization transformed itself into one of the leading engines for the Palestinian cause
The Vatican Joins the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Leonard Hammer, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2017
Mennonites, Divestment and Non-non Violence, Divest This, July 10, 2017
Christian Summer Conferences Offer Israel Blessings and Curses by Susan Warner, Gatestone Institute, August 16, 2016
Evangelical Lutheran Church calls to end “occupation of Palestine” by Abra Foreman, Breaking Israel News, August 15, 2016
Setting the Record Straight [on the Presbyterian Church USA] by Michael Gizzi, The Times of Israel, June 29, 2016
Methodists Acting Sanely, Divest This, May 20, 2016
The Presbyterian Church, BDS, and that ‘largely non-violent’ First Intifada by Michael Gizzi, The Times of Israel, May 18, 2016
Alliance of Baptists Doesn’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Affirming BDS by Tricia Miller, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA), May 4, 2016
The Misguided Teachings of the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference by Matt Hanna, Kehila News, April 13, 2016
Christians Who Demonize Israel – Part III: Sabeel: An Anti-Semitic Cult within the Church by Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute, March 3, 2016
ALERT: Three U.S. Churches to Vote on Anti-Israel Resolutions this Spring by Miriam Elman, Legal Insurrection, February 21, 2016
Vatican declaration on Christian-Jewish ties ‘repudiates’ replacement theology, JNS.org, December 10, 2015 (see also What the Vatican Didn’t Say—And What It Did by Yoram Hazony, Torah Musings, December 17, 2015)
The Vatican issued an unprecedented declaration that the Jewish people are part of God’s salvation without explicitly confessing Christ as their savior, in a document that includes other changes in Catholic Church teachings related to Christian-Jewish relations.
New Church Resource, Divest This, July 28, 2015
American evangelicals stand behind Israel, Lifeway, July 14, 2015
American evangelicals stand behind Israel
CCAR Statement Condemning the Vote of the United Church of Christ General Synod to Join the Global BDS Movement Targeting Israel, Central Conference of American Rabbis, July 1, 2015
The JCPA and IAN Respond to the United Church of Christ Divestment Decision, Jewish Federations of North America, June 30, 2015
An Exodus of Members Doesn’t Stop the UCC from Attacking Israel by Dexter Van Zile, Philos Project, June 25, 2015
United Church of Christ and The “Big Lie” by Susan Warner, Gatestone Institute, June 1, 2015
Christian priest to UN: “Israel only Mideast country not persecuting Christians”, UN Watch, October 29, 2014
Crucified by His Own Bishop by Mark Oppenheimer, Tablet, October 8, 2014: Bruce Shipman, The Yale Episcopal chaplain, forced out over accusations of anti-Semitism, talks about his downfall
PCUSA – Saying Goodbye, Divest This, July 2, 2014
Open letter to my brothers and sisters at the Presbyterian General Assembly 2014 by Vida Velasco, Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2014
PCUSA BDS: Will Dialog Solve All? by Divest This, June 19, 2014
‘Jesus Was a Palestinian’: The Return of Christian Anti-Semitism by Melanie Phillips, Commentary, June 1, 2014
Welcoming Pope Francis by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2014
Palestinian Christian Reveals the Reality Over the Propaganda by Simon Plosker, Honest Reporting, April 27, 2014
The teaching of contempt returns by David Brog, Times of Israel, March 27, 2014
New Anti-Semitism Tailored for Evangelicals by Christine Williams, Gatestone Institute, March 25, 2014
Talking Theology Can Help Defuse Anti-Israel Activism in Mainline Churches by Yishai Schwartz, Tablet, February 27, 2014
The Jewish community should stop treating the issue as a political problem
PCUSA – Zionism Unsettled, Divest This, March 6, 2014
Presbyterian Org Says Agenda of Group Within Church is ‘End of the Jewish State of Israel’ by Joshua Levitt, The Algemeiner, February 20, 2014
Why is US church sending Jews to the trash-heap of history? by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, Fox News, February 18, 2014
Video: BDS Movement and Christian Persecution (3’02”) by “firstonethrough,” December 23, 2013
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Briefing, The Methodist Church in Britain, October 2013 (See also: Questions the Methodist Church didn’t ask in their survey by Elder of Ziyon, November 5, 2013, and An Open Letter to Peter Tidey of the Methodist Church in Britain by Dexter Van Zile, The Algemeiner, November 4, 2013)
Evangelicals and Israel: What American Jews Don’t Want to Know (but Need to) by Robert W. Nicholson, Mosaic, October 2013
How Boycotts Hurt the Cause of Middle East Peace by Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein, The Algemeiner, June 13, 2013
The Presbyterian Church and Divestment by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden, We Are For Israel, February 18, 2012
What Jews should know about Christians by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, September 14, 2011
Presbyterians Against Israel: Liberal Protestants are engaging in historical revisionism concerning Jews and the Holy Land by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2010