Friday 15 February 2013

Christian Aid and Anti-Semitism

After the horrors of the Second World War you would have thought we would never experience anti-Semitism again, much less imagine that it would become mainstream.
Now and again in Britain people blame the ‘Jews’. Most likely they will not be so crude. They will blame the ‘Zionists’ or the ‘Israelis’
Many, if not most United Kingdom churches support Christian Aid. These modern day mainstream churches are frequented largely by the bureaucratic classes. Many church members are people who ‘care’ and they are paid for caring.

If you type ‘Christian Aid Middle East’ into your search engine you will get a page that has twelve headings. Eleven of these twelve headings concern Israel and the Palestinians.
This is eleven out of twelve.
Yes, eleven out of twelve.
So we can forget about the disappearing women of Arabia, and the persecution of Gays in every country in the region except Israel.
We can forget the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from sanctions, bombing and invasion (our sanctions, our bombs, our invasion).
Yes, we can forget about our crimes.
We can forget about Christians being driven out of Iraq, we can forget about Christians being murdered and forced out of Syria.
We can even forget about the disappearing Christians of Bethlehem.
We can forget about the crimes committed by our allies, the Islamo-Fascists.
We can forget about the crimes committed by ourselves.
Instead, we can hate the Jews.

Next door to Israel is a country called Egypt. There are several million Christians in Egypt, many of whom feel under threat from the new breed of Islamo-Fascism. Egypt is a country that is on the point of economic meltdown.
Unlike this country, that does not mean cuts in services. It means rationing, malnutrition, even starvation.
There is plenty of charitable work for Christian Aid to do if it so wishes.
Instead it prefers to hate.  

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