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United Church of Canada Caught Red-Handed Fomenting Strife Within Jewish CommunityPosted On 09/18/09
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
United Church of Canada Caught Red-Handed Fomenting Strife Within Jewish Community
TORONTO, September 18, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada denounces the United Church of Canada (UCC) for funding an event that led to the founding of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), a fringe anti-Israel and anti-Jewish organization. The UCC reportedly donated roughly 10% of the costs of a March 2008 anti-Israel conference staged by the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians which led to the creation of IJV.
“The principle behind this unprincipled move by the UCC is now clear for all to see,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “The United Church has been caught red-handed funding organizations that create division and strife within the Jewish community.
“The UCC has a long history of working against the Jewish State, and by extension the Jewish people. The same Church that recently sanctioned that all of its congregations may boycott the world’s only Jewish State, is now revealed to have funded the creation of an organization that has repeatedly come out with despicable propaganda about events in the Middle East and has called for a boycott of the Jewish State.
“In one sense, something positive has come out of this outrageous revelation. The UCC and the rest of the organizations working on demonizing and delegitimizing the Jewish State can no longer hide behind the facade of ‘reconciliation.’ The wolves have now shed their sheep’s clothing.”
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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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