Or perhaps it is creating a smoke screen to conceal from the unwary that, by loudly denouncing anti-Semitism, no one will notice that it is working quietly to undermine Israel.
Here you can learn the Anglican Church of Canada’s view on “what it means to be anti-Semitic in the contemporary context” – although, I can’t see why the contemporary context would be any different from any other context, so I am left with the uneasy suspicion that this is code for something unsavoury.
And here you can read one reaction to the Anglican Church of Canada’s sponsoring of a conference on “overcoming Christian Zionism”:
Later this month, Canadian Friends of Sabeel will hold a conference on “overcoming Christian Zionism.” Sabeel describes itself as an “ecumenical Palestinian liberation theology centre” that is “working for justice, peace and reconciliation in Palestine-Israel.” In reality, it is a group that promotes a misrepresentation of events in the Middle East. The conference slated for Vancouver is explicitly aimed at undermining Israel among its North American Christian supporters.
Sabeel, like Christ at the Checkpoint, is a dhimmi group hopelessly confusing nationalism with Christianity, and wholly unconcerned about any Palestinian state being governed by sharia. While Israel has a way to go in its treatment of its Arab citizens, the state respects the practice of Christianity more than any other state in MENA, which is why it’s the only state in MENA with a growing Christian presence.
Exactly correct. And funny you should mention nationalism. ‘Sabeel’ has close ties to PFLP, a Marxist Arab ‘nationalist’ movement. PFLP jailed leader’s daughter is a speaker at the ‘sabeel’ conference.
That any serious serious Christian pays attention to these people seems oxymoronic; it just seems like an opportunity to whitewash latent antisemitism.
I could not agree more.
Our Church could start by repudiating Marcionism in its exegesis.
There is no possible way that one can “fight anti-Semitism” AND hold a ‘sabeel’ conference at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Vancouver later this month. It would be like saying you are going to join ISIS to support tolerance. You can do one or the other, but not both. If you think you are doing both, then your understanding of ‘tolerance’ might need to be re-examined.