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The Unfathomable Darkness of the Church of England
(Substack) Melanie Phillips - The Church of England has decided to engage with a document that demonizes the State of Israel with vicious falsehoods and distortions, tries to to rob Jewish people of their historic identity, and seeks to destroy Judaism itself as the religion rooted in the Land of Israel. The document's very title perpetrates the wicked lie that Israel is the perpetrator of genocide rather than the target and victim of genocidal attacks perpetrated by the people that this document, and the Church of England, go out of their way to sanitize, excuse and justify. The document describes the Palestinian Arabs falsely as the "indigenous people of this land" (it's the Jews who are the actual indigenous people of the land). It demands a boycott of dialogue with "Zionists" - which in practice means boycotting as pariahs the majority of Jews. Every lie that's been thrown at Israel over its war of self-defense in Gaza - starvation, ethnic cleansing, war crimes - is thrown at it here. It portrays opposition to Israel's existence and "resistance" - the killing of Jews - as an act of religious faith. All the Palestinian Arabs need do to transform their lives for the better is give up the violence against Israeli Jews that they perpetrate every single day in order to further their century-old aim of destroying the Jewish homeland. The only reason for checkpoints is to pre-empt even more murderous Palestinian Arab violence against Israeli citizens. For decades the church has been promulgating incendiary calumnies against Israel with a theological underpinning that casts the Jews as the party of the devil. Its importance in helping create today's insane levels of Jew-hatred should not be underestimated. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.