The Chief Rabbi of the UK has urged the Church of England to reject a document that describes Israel as a "colonial enterprise" which has carried out a "genocidal war on Gaza".
The Chief Rabbi of the UK has urged the Church of England to reject a document that describes Israel as a "colonial enterprise" which has carried out a "genocidal war on Gaza".
Sir Ephraim Mirvis, who reportedly has a son serving in the Israeli forces, warned that the document risked "undermining decades of careful relationship-building" between Christians and Jews and urged the Church of England’s General Synod not to adopt it when members meet next week.
The document in question is a report entitled ‘A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide’ and is produced by Kairos Palestine, a Palestinian Christian initiative.
General Synod members are expected debate a motion for the Church of England to show solidarity with Palestinian Christians, to “lament the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives” and to “reject antisemitism [and] anti-Muslim prejudice”.
Kairos Palestine’s ‘A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide’ is one of the documents that will be debated amongst the Genera Synod.
The report states that Palestinian Christians now declare “we live now in a time of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement unfolding before the eyes of the world.”
“The genocidal war on Gaza is the continuation of the Zionist project to seize all of Palestine, emptied of its Palestinian people,” the report also says.
“This genocide has been carried out by Israel after decades of apartheid, settler colonialism [and] political repression.”
The document also describes Israel as a “colonial, settler, and exclusionary entity” and says Palestinians are “the indigenous people of this land”. It urged churches “to distinguish between dialogue with Jews and dialogue with Zionism”.
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