UK's Anglican's Going Anti-Semitic? Jewsweek reports...

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    "Britain's anti-Israel crusaders" February 26, 2003

    "The Arab-Israel conflict has swept through Britain like a desert wind, and the 280,000-member Jewish community is feeling the lash of its heat. Last July, a synagogue in Wales was ransacked while a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology fired two Israeli academics from a university journal as part of a cultural boycott campaign that caught Israeli professors in the cross hairs. Somewhat ironically, one of the sacked academics, American-born Miriam Schlesinger, is a former chairperson of Amnesty International who makes regular "solidarity visits" to the Palestinian Authority.

    "The mainstream British media has run stories with conspiratorial themes, such as a recent feature in the Independent, a respected broadsheet, purporting to explain the mechanics of how Jewish money and political lobbying controls the American Congress and the media. Antisemitism here, according to the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a report from the Stephen Roth Institute of Tel Aviv University, is rising.

    "British Jews are alarmed to know that [strident rhetoric's now] flowing from the pulpits of churches throughout the country, with radical Anglican clerics who call Israel an apartheid state and accuse it of engaging in terrorism against defenseless Palestinians. Months after allegations of a massacre in Jenin were discredited, they continued promoting the charges on web sites and calling for United Nations forces to intervene on the Palestinians' behalf....

    "The clerics do not hide their political motivations, but what differentiates them from other pro-Palestinian activists is the religious grounds on which they stake their position. In rejecting Christ's divinity, they say, the Jews lost their covenant and all claim to the land of Israel. Accordingly, it is the Palestinians, particularly Christian Palestinians, who are the intended recipients of the God's territorial promise."
    Influence of the old doctrine of supercession is growing among Anglican's, reports Jewsweek,
    http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El160&enVersion=0&
     

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