Anti-Israel bias among elements within the mainline
Protestant churches is unfortunately common. In virtually all gatherings of
these churches, motions that condemn the Jewish State are raised. An additional
element has, however, crept into the publications of these churches – hypocrisy
and the distortion of the realities in the Middle East. In the July 2013 issue
of Sojourners, a magazine serving liberal Evangelical Protestants in the U.S.,
one such example of bias, hypocrisy, and distortion is on display.
Gregg Brekke, former news director of the United Church
of Christ, authored the lead article titled: A Holy Land without Christians? and
subtitled Arab Christians are vital to a thriving Middle East – and their
numbers are dwindling.
The title, which focuses on the Holy Land, which typically connotes Israeli
territory, is revealing in itself, and greatly misleading. Had Brekke titled
his article the “dwindling Arab Christians in the Muslim Middle East,” he would
have been accurate. But in Israel the number of Arab Christians has greatly
increased rather than dwindled….To Read More….
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