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United Church of Canada Resolutions Insult to Grassroots Canadian JewsPosted On 08/14/09
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
United Church of Canada Resolutions Insult to Grassroots Canadian Jews
TORONTO, August 14, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada, the voice of the grassroots Canadian Jewish community, was disappointed to learn that resolutions that enable United Church Conferences, Presbyteries, congregations, and community ministries to boycott the Jewish State of Israel, if they so choose, were unanimously passed at the United Church of Canada’s (UCC) 40th General Council. At the same time, the UCC passed resolutions that can best be described as advocating for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria. B’nai Brith Canada was accorded preferred guest status by the UCC and monitored the proceedings in British Columbia.
“It is with great sadness that the Jewish community has learned that the moral stance in defense of the Jewish State expected to come from our Christian brothers and sisters at the United Church’s gathering did not materialize,” said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s Executive Vice President. “We expected much more from the people who had gathered in Kelowna. We had hoped that they would have had the good judgment to see through those anti-Israel and anti-Jewish motions, including the amendments that were offered and accepted, for what they really were: part and parcel of the campaign to delegitimize the one and only Jewish state in the world.
“The very concept that the United Church of Canada thinks it can predetermine the outcome of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is nothing less than an extreme example of chutzpah.
“It is inconceivable that a Christian organization, that should understand G-d’s covenant with the Children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and rejoice in the fulfillment of the prophesy of the return of the Jewish people to the ancestral homeland from which they were ethnically cleansed, has chosen instead to join those forces who are determined to undermine the Jewish State.”
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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