{"id":1529522,"date":"2022-06-27T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529522"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:34:39","slug":"presbyterian-church-group-under-fire-for-likening-israel-to-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presbyterian-church-group-under-fire-for-likening-israel-to-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian Church Group Under Fire for Likening Israel to Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresbyterian-church-group-under-fire-for-likening-israel-to-nazi-germany%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Pro-BDS Christian movement accused of stoking anti-Semitic hatred<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn anti-Semitic protester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2019 \/ Change.org petition\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 June 27, 2022 2:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An organization representing Presbyterian churches across America is poised to pass an anti-Israel resolution that opponents say endangers the Jewish community and will contribute to anti-Semitic violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, an umbrella group representing churches across the country, is considering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pc-biz.org\/#\/search\/3000773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resolution<\/a> that accuses Israel of &#8220;apartheid&#8221; and likens the Jewish state&#8217;s treatment of Palestinians to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Nazi regime. The resolution falsely accuses Israel of stealing Palestinian water supplies &#8220;for Jewish-only settlements&#8221; and &#8220;denying the right to freedom of residence to Palestinians.&#8221; It also says Israel is &#8220;dividing the population along racial lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos for the Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote on this resolution\u2014which both Christian and Jewish opponents say is anti-Semitic\u2014is set to take place on Tuesday at the Presbyterian Church&#8217;s general assembly gathering, which brings together Presbyterian leaders from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Philos Action League, a Christian community group that works with Jewish allies to combat anti-Semitism and the spread of hatred within the Christian community, is urging Presbyterian Church group members to reject the measure, saying it will contribute to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Israel resolution &#8220;fuels hate&#8221; against Jews and pro-Israel activists by falsely making &#8220;the only Jewish place for self-determination&#8221; out to be &#8220;evil and in likeness to Nazi Germany,&#8221; according to a copy of a Philos Action League\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/PCUSA-Letter-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> sent to the group&#8217;s leadership and obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. The league delivered copies of the letter in-person to at least 11 Presbyterian churches and is running advertisements in Louisville\u2014where the general assembly conference will be held this week\u2014that call on church members to reject the anti-Israel measure.<\/p>\n<p>The Presbyterian Church is no stranger to anti-Israel controversy. The organization has long backed the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and called on BDS supporters to isolate Israel for waging a so-called apartheid against the Palestinians. While the church&#8217;s rhetoric has been condemned as anti-Semitic before, the Philos Action League and its backers say its latest campaign could fuel violence against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The latest resolution &#8220;promotes claims of individuals who have a record of making anti-Semitic statements&#8221; and &#8220;erases Jewish experiences and witness,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Basic human rights are being stripped away from Jewish life in the U.S. and beyond with the constant threat of violence, intimidation, and discrimination. Unfortunately, Christianity has a history of bias against the Jewish people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resolution invokes the Holocaust as justification for boycotting Israel. The church claims it is wrong for members to &#8220;silence their criticism of Israel&#8217;s polices because of the history of the Nazi Holocaust and the failure of many Christians to speak out at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christians too vowed that never again would they be silent if a government passed laws establishing and maintaining the domination by one ethnic group over another ethnic group through systematic separation, oppression, and denial of basic human rights,&#8221; the resolution states, using language typically reserved for the Holocaust. &#8220;Silence in the face of evil was wrong then, and it is wrong now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such language leads to real-world violence, according to Philos and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an epidemic of hate plaguing our community, and the Christian community has sat by watching it happen and has done very little for too long,&#8221; Philos states in its letter, which is backed by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, the Israel Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, and other faith groups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Pro-BDS Christian movement accused of stoking anti-Semitic hatred  An anti-Semitic protester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2019 \/ Change.org petition  Adam Kredo \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}