Melanie Phillips looks at a darker side of pro-Palestinian theology.
Within the Protestant world, many churches are deeply hostile to the State of Israel. They present the Palestinians as victims of Israeli oppression while ignoring the murderous victimization of Israeli citizens at their hands. This much is generally known. What is less known is the even more disturbing fact that this perverse animus is increasingly fed not by the politics of the present moment but by theology...keep reading
As an aside; soon after three Israeli teenagers were abducted, two self-described Christian Peace Activists tweeted the following message.
"The abduction of three yeshiva students in the West Bank last Thursday was ordered in advance - by Israel."
Sizer will likely be more familiar to observers than Alice Bach. The latter was an academic at Case Western University who blogs with The Electronic Intifada and has written for the Huffington Post. Biblical authority isn't exactly prominent in Bach's personal theology. She has also drawn the attention of Campus Watch, among others.
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