The Church of Scotland says Israel has no right to the occupied Palestinian lands.
In a new report titled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land,’” the church said Israel’s claim to the occupied territories could be invalidated by its treatment of Palestinian people.
The report will be voted on by the 700 church members who attend the annual general assembly later this month.
If the paper is passed by a majority, it may become “the considered view of the Church,” a spokesperson said.
The report also calls for the church to consider backing “economic and political measures involving boycotts, disinvestment and sanctions against Israel focused on illegal settlements.”
Moreover, it calls on Christians to lobby the UK government to put pressure on the Tel Aviv regime to halt its illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“Christians should not be supporting any claims by Jews, or any other people, to an exclusive or even privileged divine right to possess particular territory,” the report said.
Palestinians refer to the May 15, 1948 occupation of Palestine as the “Nakba Day,” which means the Day of the Catastrophe in Arabic, to mark the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland almost 65 years ago.
Israeli forces have wiped nearly 500 Palestinian villages and towns off the map, leaving an estimated total of 4.7 million Palestinian refugees hoping for an eventual return to their homeland more than six decades later.
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Thank you Church of Scotland for restoring our faith in the Church’s role, it’s shocking what’s happening with the CoE that’s headed by a Jewish Archbishop who during his trip to Israel, he visited Yad Vashem, declared full support to Israel and didn’t bother to go to Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was born and where the Churches appeal came from. http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/179454/jewish-archbishop-of-canterbury-at-yad-vashem/
According to Zionist websites this morning ‘the Archbishop of Canterbury is Head of the Southern Province of the CoE, with the Archbishop of York being head of the Northern Province.
As for someone Jewish becoming head of a Christian Church, I think Jesus Christ beat the current Archbishop of Canterbury by a couple of thousand years.’
THIS IS ALL LIES! I was just in Israel and there is no mis-treatment of the so-called palestinian people. This is a lie propagated by liberals. You use brains people. These are controlled messages to get you to approve of their evil. RESIST!
If you’re stupid enough to think anyone going to Israel will whitness the mis-treatment, you shouldn’t even be posting comments. Well since you show how stupid you are by your comment, maybe it’s better that you do comment.
Perhaps when the so called Americans stop subsadizing terrorism, land confiscation, settlers, military occupation, brutality and cruelty, vetoing every UN resolution that could possibly bring some balance to the region, we can all have some peace
Surely the money saved could help the MILLIONS hungry and Freezing decent Americans in the US.