NOTE: Some Presbyterian leaders have sought to avoid responsibility by suggesting that Zionism Unsettled is not a formal declaration of the General Assembly. This evasion is disingenuous. The Presbyterian Church would not tolerate a Jewish religious organization circulating a scurrilous pamphlet (taken from the medieval polemic) by an extremist group, stigmatizing Jesus as an illegitimate child and Virgin Mary as a slut. Then the church or its boards should not be distributing a publication demonizing Zionists/Jews as ‘crucifying’ Palestinian children or poisoning the wells of civic society in Palestine. “Do unto others what you would have others do unto you.” Zionism Unsettled and the Sabeel Center with whose larger publication this guide is coordinated – has revived tropes of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism from the darkest days of medieval persecution. They have repeatedly evoked these tropes to discredit the state of Israel. Such false witness and suborning of hatred should be repudiated not circulated.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:32:18 +0000
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