On June 6, faith groups across North America came together to launch the Apartheid Free Communities Initiative. Convened by the American Friends Service Committee, this coalition brings together over 100 congregations, faith groups, and organizations as an interdenominational campaign working to end the crime of apartheid committed against Palestinians.
Click to expand Image Israeli and Palestine activists hold a banner during a protest to block the new Route 4370 Israeli highway near the Palestinian town of Anata, January 23, 2019. 2019 Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images On June 6, faith groups across North America came together to launch the Apartheid Free Communities Initiative. Convened by the American Friends Service Committee, this coalition brings together over 100 congregations, faith groups, and organizations as an interdenominational campaign working to end the crime of apartheid committed against Palestinians. In recent years, recognition of Israel's apartheid has grown amongst American Christians. In July 2021, the United Church of Christ's General Synod became one of the first denominations to pass a resolution recognizing "Israel's apartheid system of laws and legal procedures" and affirming that the "continued oppression of the Palestinian people remains . a matter of theological
With its mendacious and one-sided activism, the United Church of Christ has been a negative force for peace in the Middle East and on Jewish life in the United States. With is ongoing polemics against Israel, the UCC has brought wood to the fire of antisemitism.
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