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The Church of Scotland, recently came out and questioned the Jewish right to Israel.
A discussion sheet prepared by the Church and society council suggests that the Jewish claim to the land of Israel could be invalidated by its treatment of the Palestinians.
The Church has been attacked by Jewish leaders on the report that questioned the right of Israel to exist.
The report will be voted on by the 700 members of the Church who attend the annual general meeting of the governing body
of the Church when it meets later this month. If approved by a majority, it could become the official opinion of the Church, a church spokesperson said.
A Jewish leader said that the report was a deliberate attempt to challenge Israel's right to exist and would be very damaging to interfaith relations in Scotland and across the United Kingdom.
He warned of the domino effect if a joint vote endorses the report, adopted as a policy of the Church.
The report on the promised land, said that Christians should not support exclusive Jewish claims to the land of Israel or of using the Bible to resolve contemporary conflicts upon the earth.
“I just can’t believe that a group of Christians can question the Jewish connection to the land of Israel. We all know that the Scottish church was not too friendly to the Jewish cause in the past, but this tops it all. I think this report has the potential to burn all the Christian-Jewish bridges that were built over the past few hundred years. This is truly sad,” Jacob Alexander, 38, of London, England told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the church’s denial of the Jewish connection to Israel.
"On behalf of the Jewish community in Scotland, we call upon the Church to remove it from the next general assembly. If the Church cannot build bridges, at least it should refrain from burning them," a Jewish leader said.
A discussion sheet prepared by the Church and society council suggests that the Jewish claim to the land of Israel could be invalidated by its treatment of the Palestinians.
The Church has been attacked by Jewish leaders on the report that questioned the right of Israel to exist.
The report will be voted on by the 700 members of the Church who attend the annual general meeting of the governing body
of the Church when it meets later this month. If approved by a majority, it could become the official opinion of the Church, a church spokesperson said.A Jewish leader said that the report was a deliberate attempt to challenge Israel's right to exist and would be very damaging to interfaith relations in Scotland and across the United Kingdom.
He warned of the domino effect if a joint vote endorses the report, adopted as a policy of the Church.
The report on the promised land, said that Christians should not support exclusive Jewish claims to the land of Israel or of using the Bible to resolve contemporary conflicts upon the earth.
“I just can’t believe that a group of Christians can question the Jewish connection to the land of Israel. We all know that the Scottish church was not too friendly to the Jewish cause in the past, but this tops it all. I think this report has the potential to burn all the Christian-Jewish bridges that were built over the past few hundred years. This is truly sad,” Jacob Alexander, 38, of London, England told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the church’s denial of the Jewish connection to Israel.
"On behalf of the Jewish community in Scotland, we call upon the Church to remove it from the next general assembly. If the Church cannot build bridges, at least it should refrain from burning them," a Jewish leader said.
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