[Diggers350] 'Antisemitism', the CofE & the 'home front in the Zionist crusade for Palestinian land

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Fri Feb 24 01:46:29 GMT 2023 


22 February 2023




<https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-revd-stephen-sizer-crucified-by.html>The 
Revd. Stephen Sizer – Crucified by the Church of 
England for supporting the Palestinians

Instead of Condemning the neo-Nazis Who Attack 
Christian Palestinians Justin Welby prefers to play the role of Pontius Pilate

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The Church of England doesn’t have a good record 
when it comes to fighting racism, including 
anti-Semitism. Cosmo Gordon Lang, who was 
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942, 
<https://www.jta.org/archive/the-nazi-era-archbishop-of-canterbury-suggested-jews-were>suggested 
to American diplomat James McDonald shortly 
before World War II that the Jews were 
responsible for their persecution by the Nazis.

Terence Tastard 
<https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/14353>writes 
in his PhD thesis ‘The Response of the English 
Churches to the Nazi Persecution of the Jews 1933-1945’ that:

the response by Church of England leaders during 
the 1930s was fitful and issue-led. Despite his 
sudden eruption over the cartoon [in the Nazi 
paper Der Sturmer] , Lang had little to say about 
the situation of the Jews as the crisis in 
Germany deepened between 1934 and 1938.

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In recent times, with the exception of 
Archbishops of Canterbury George Carey and Justin 
Welby, who both 
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/24/ex-archbishop-george-carey-gave-uncritical-support-to-disgraced-bishop-inquiry-told>protected 
child-abusers within the Church, senior prelates 
like Robert Runcie and Rowan Williams have tended 
to the more liberal side of politics.

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Archbishop Justin Welby

With the advent of 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby>Justin 
Welby to the Archbishopric of Canterbury things 
changed. Welby came from a deeply conservative 
family. Father Gavin stood for Parliament in the 
1951 and 1955 general elections as a Conservative 
candidate. Welby, educated at Eton and Trinity 
College, Cambridge was born to the ruling class.

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Welby is the most reactionary Archbishop of 
Canterbury since Carey, who was appointed by 
Thatcher after his predecessor Robert Runcie had 
issued 
<https://monumentoffame.org/2016/01/08/we-have-found-faith-in-the-city-the-records-of-the-archbishop-of-canterburys-commission-on-the-urban-priority-areas-acupa/>Faith 
in the City, which was ‘an indictment of 
Thatcher’s free-market policies.’ Almost 
immediately Chief Rabbi Jakobovits 
<https://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/10/08/what-margaret-thatchers-rabbi-taught-about-work-welfare-and>leapt 
to her defence with From Doom to Hope, 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_in_the_City>arguing:

blacks should not look to the state but instead 
to themselves and take responsibility for their 
poverty. He argued that they should learn from 
the Jewish experience of working themselves out 
of poverty, educating themselves and building up 
a "trust in and respect for the police, realising 
that our security as a minority depended on law and order being maintained

leading Thatcher to remark

“Oh, how I wish our own [Anglican] church leaders 
would take a leaf out of your Chief Rabbi’s book.”

British Jewish hostility to socialism did not start with Corbyn!

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Thatcher was known to have 
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/inquiry-child-sexual-abuse-peter-morrison-paedophile-tory-mp-thatcher-mi5-westminster-police-penchant-small-boys-a8818151.html>protected 
paedophiles such as her closest aide 
<https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/child-abuse-inquiry-finds-ex-17810628>Peter 
Morrison, so Carey was a natural choice for her.

It is inconceivable that Welby would author 
anything but the mildest rebuke of the 
government’s political and economic policies. He 
is a died-in-the-wool reactionary and so Zionism is second nature.

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Welby worked for 11 years in the oil industry and 
in 1984 he became treasurer of 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Oil>Enterprise 
Oil. He also became a member of the Evangelical 
Anglican church of Holy Trinity in Brompton, 
London. He retired in 1989 and suddenly sensed a calling from God.

In July 2013, following a Parliamentary Report on 
Banking Standards, Welby leapt to the defence of 
bankers, 
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10194529/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-warns-of-lynch-mob-against-bankers.html>warning 
against punishing by naming and shaming 
individual bankers, which he compared to the 
behaviour of a lynch mob. It was the behaviour of 
the bankers which led to the 2008/9 crash which 
led to 
<https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_885099_en.html>over 
300,000 deaths from austerity as the poor paid 
the price. Welby’s sympathies however were firmly 
with the bankers not the poor.

Mehdi Hassan on ISIS and Blowback

Welby also joined in the state’s Islamaphobia 
campaign that accompanied the ‘war against 
terror’ and the fight against ISIS. In November 
2016 he was 
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/welby-time-to-stop-saying-isil-has-nothing-to-do-with-islam/>quoted 
as saying that

Claims that the atrocities of Islamic State of 
Iraq and the Levant have “nothing to do with 
Islam” are harming efforts to confront and combat extremism.

Isis did not exist before the US invasion of Iraq 
destroyed the existing society, killing a million 
people in the process. It was a war for oil 
masquerading as a war for democracy. By 
deliberately stoking up sectarian divisions in 
Iraq, the old divide and rule, the US created 
first Al Quaeda in Iraq and then ISIS. Welby of 
course kept silent because, as an oil trader, he 
benefited from the genocide in Iraq.

Welby was following in the footsteps of Carey, a 
Christian Zionist, in more ways than one. In 
February 2017, Welby had to apologise after 
allegations that barrister and evangelical 
Christian 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smyth_(barrister)>John 
Smyth beat boys in the late 1970s until their 
wounds bled and left permanent scars. Smyth was a 
senior member of Christian charity the 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwerne_Trust>Iwerne 
Trust in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Welby was a dormitory officer at camps held in 
the Dorset village of Iwerne Minster. Smyth was 
<https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-changes-his-tune-about-link-to-sex-abuse-camp-zdp06nl8b>described 
by Welby in 2017 as 
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/justin-welby-church-england-john-smyth-abuse-claims>"charming" 
and "delightful." They even swapped Christmas 
cards for some years. Andrew Atherstone in Risk 
Taker and Reconciler, 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#cite_note-115>described 
Welby as having been

involved in the camps as an undergraduate [
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businessman and theological college student in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Welby stated that "I had no contact with them at 
all". It later materialised that Welby 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#cite_note-115>had 
attended the camp in this period and had 
<https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-changes-his-tune-about-link-to-sex-abuse-camp-zdp06nl8b>continued 
to receive the camp newsletter.

In 2012, a victim of Smyth reported the abuse to 
the CoE and Welby was informed in 2013. Welby 
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/01/archbishop-canterbury-apologises-links-child-abuser-emerge/>maintained 
that this was the first he had heard of the abuse 
by his old friend. The New York Times on 14 
October 2017 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/justin-welby-archbishop-of-canterbury-iwerne-abuse.html>quoted 
a senior Church of England figure as saying that

“all senior members of the trust, including 
officers like Archbishop Welby, had been made 
aware of the allegations against Mr Smyth, even those who had been abroad".

Questions have remained among Smyth victims as to 
when Welby first knew. Some have labelled the 
Archbishop an "observer", a term denoting a 
person who knew about abuse but who did not report it.

None of this stopped Welby, on 30 January 2023 
<https://www.ukpol.co.uk/justin-welby-2023-statement-on-stephen-sizer-penalty-judgment/>issuing 
a statement on Stephen Sizer. Hypocrisy is, after 
all, the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Welby pontificated that:

It is clear that the behaviour of Stephen Sizer 
has undermined Christian-Jewish relations, giving 
encouragement to conspiracy theories and tropes 
that have no place in public Christian ministry 
and the church. I renew my call for the highest 
possible standards among ordained ministers of 
the Church of England in combatting antisemitism of all kinds.”

Unfortunately Welby refused to take his own 
advice on ‘the highest possible standards’. 
Despite 
<https://x.facebook.com/virtueonline/photos/a.10153416637649572/10162628937584572/?type=3&source=48>multiple 
calls he has refused to resign.

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The Crucifixion of Stephen Sizer

 From 1997 to 2017 Sizer was the Vicar of Christ 
Church, Virginia Water. Stephen was an 
<https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Christian_Zionism.html?id=YtUsAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y>expert 
on Christian Zionism.

Christian Zionism is a deeply racist, genocidal 
ideology that justifies the colonisation of 
Palestine because god ‘gave it’ to the Jews. It 
justifies persecution in the name of god. There 
is nothing that Jewish settlers or Israel do 
which it can’t justify in order to reach 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time>End Times.

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Christian Zionism is a fundamentalist reading of 
the Bible that ignores context and even Jewish 
theology. The idea that colonists have the right 
to expel an indigenous people because ‘god’ gave 
them permission is by definition inherently racist.

God also blessed the American settlers as they 
exterminated the Native Indians. Likewise with 
the Spanish. This is the god that Welby prays to. 
The CoE was also an 
<https://inews.co.uk/news/church-of-england-slavery-links-profit-slave-trade-explained-450565>active 
participant in the slave trade

Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, 
his two estates were left to the Society for the 
Propagation of the Gospel. The plantations 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codrington_Plantations>were 
reliant on regular supplies of new slaves from 
West Africa. Four out of every 10 slaves bought 
by the plantation in 1740 died within three years 
as it was cheaper to work them to death.

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Whilst 
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/justin-welby-tells-synod-he-is-sorry-and-ashamed-over-churchs-racism>acknowledging 
that the CoE is ‘institutionally racist’ Welby 
has failed to recognise his own part in it. The 
establishment of a medieval church tribunal to 
try Sizer for ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations made by 
the Board of Deputies is an example of this racism.

The Racist Board of Deputies [BoD] of British Jews

There is a 
<https://law.jrank.org/pages/8487/Maxim--He-who-comes-into-equity-must-come-with-clean-hands.html>saying 
in law that “He Who Comes Into Equity Must Come 
With Clean Hands.” In other words you cannot 
accuse others of a crime if you are also guilty! 
So it is with the Board of Deputies.

The Board of Deputies is primarily an advocate 
and defender of Israeli Apartheid. It is riddled 
with Islamaphobes and racists.

Samuel Hayek, Chair of JNF UK agreed with the 
neo-Nazi 
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/great-replacement-theory-alt-right-killers-el-paso>White 
Replacement Theory in which Muslims are driving 
White people from Europe. Its anti-Semitic 
version has Jews behind it. Hayek 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-national-fund-uk-chair-jews-have-no-future-in-england/>declared 
that “Jews have no future in England”:

The evidence is the number of immigrants to 
England. The demographic of British society is changing.

Asked if he was referring to Muslims, he 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/charity-chiefs-migrant-warning-sparks-communal-outrage/>confirmed 
that was so:

Our problem in the West is that we do not 
understand Islam. In Islam there is not a term for ‘peace’.

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Gary Mond, another JNF trustee and also Senior 
Vice-President of the BoD 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-national-fund-uk-chair-jews-have-no-future-in-england/>spoke 
of his “respect” for Hayek over the comments.

Mond also liked two tweets by Pamela Geller – a 
White Supremacist and fascist, who has been 
banned from entry to the UK. According to the 
<https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/pamela-geller>Southern 
Poverty Law Centre

Geller has a long history of working with 
extremists and racists in the United States, 
Canada and Europe, including the 
<https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/jewish-defense-league>Jewish 
Defense League, the 
<https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/09/16/british-extremists-are-coming-%E2%80%94-or-english-defence-league-hearts-pam-geller>English 
Defense League and the 
<https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist>white 
nationalist group 
<https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/12/american-racists-work-spread-%E2%80%98identitarian%E2%80%99-ideology>Bloc 
Identitaire, among others.

A 
<https://www.thejc.com/news/community/board-of-deputies-senior-vp-suspended-over-social-media-activity-5EW8KK8TIZpJlrFBqkajst>Facebook 
post by Mond stated that

"We just have to hope that our leaders wake up to 
the fact that all civilisation-west and east
 is 
at war with these evil bastards, and I have to 
say it at war with Islam. And, just as Islam has 
lost before in history, it will lose again."

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Mond was not alone. Three years ago the BoD 
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-jewish-leader-suspended-for-tweets-calling-arabs-the-vilest-of-animals/>suspended 
for 6 years Roslyn Pine for describing Arabs as 
“the vilest of animals.” Three years previously 
Pine had 
<https://www.jta.org/2018/07/13/global/uk-jewish-communal-leader-suspended-anti-muslim-arab-rhetoric>said 
that it was a pity that the pro-Palestinian 
Swedish foreign minister was “too old to be raped.”

This didn’t stop the BoD Executive 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/finchley-synagogue-to-discuss-the-plight-of-suspended-deputy-roslyn-pine/>ruling 
that Pine could return early from her suspension 
if she ‘apologised, showed contrition and 
expressed remorse’. Contrast that with the 
<https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/3-february/news/uk/sizer-receives-12-year-ban-from-ministry-after-anti-semitic-ruling>12 
year ban on Stephen Sizer for a concoction of 
tittle tattle and links made in error, as the BoD 
demanded its pound of flesh or the 
<https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1217775011286736896/photo/1>demand 
of the BoD that Labour members expelled for 
‘anti-Semitism’ ‘will never be readmitted to membership’.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsc8E_nXBUs&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fblogspot.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsc8E_nXBUs&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fblogspot.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt>Daniel 
Berke and Tommy Robinson

What was the reaction of Pine’s Finchley United 
Synagogue  which she represented? The Jewish News 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/finchley-synagogue-to-discuss-the-plight-of-suspended-deputy-roslyn-pine/>reported 
that

Finchley Synagogue will look into the plight of 
its suspended deputy Roslyn Pine as a matter of “urgency”. (my emphasis)


Pine’s suspension has not prevented her from 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/deputy-banned-for-vile-muslims-tweet-in-group-backing-challenger-to-lead-board/>taking 
part in the ‘BoD caucus’ group, which attempted 
to remove Board President Marie van der Zyl in 
favour of 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/far-right-row-ahead-of-vote-for-new-board-of-deputies-president/>far-right-winger 
Jonathan Neumann. Zyl only just won as Neumann 
<https://bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Honorary-Officer-Elections-2021-Results-1.pdf>gained 
43.7%. According to the 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/deputy-banned-for-vile-muslims-tweet-in-group-backing-challenger-to-lead-board/>Jewish 
News

Leaked emails show Roslyn Pine has contributed to 
the online BoD-caucus group in recent weeks 
despite being removed from the Board in 2018 


One post, made on the subscriber-only Google 
group on 18 March, lambasted the incumbent 
President Marie van der Zyl after the Board 
released a statement expressing solidarity with 
the traveller community and claiming a “shared history”.

Pine’s post included the claim: “The idea that 
traveller communities share a commonality with us is absurd.”

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Board of Deputies Representative Robert 
Festenheim appears in Tommy Robinson Propaganda Video



If the Board were serious about getting rid of 
its racists it would have removed 
<https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/tommy-robinson-is-not-my-client-says-manchester-jewish-lawyer-1.440997>Robert 
Festenheim, the Prestwich Deputy, solicitor and 
advisor to Tommy Robinson and Robinson’s 
solicitor 
<https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/06/jonathan-hoffman-and-damon-lenzner.html>Daniel 
Berke.

In January 2022 Mond, who received the highest 
vote of the 3 Vice-Presidents, was 
<https://stljewishlight.org/news/world-news/a-british-jewish-leader-has-resigned-following-his-comments-about-muslims/>forced 
to resign. Mond had 
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-jewish-leader-resigns-following-comments-about-war-with-islam/>written 
on Facebook and 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/board-of-deputies-senior-vp-asked-to-step-down-over-far-right-social-media-posts/>tweeted 
that ‘all civilization’ is ‘at war with Islam.’ 
Note the contrast with the Board’s fulminations against Stephen Sizer.

The tribunal ignored the fact that Section 3(d) 
of the Board’s Constitution 
<https://bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Board-of-Deputies-Constitution-22-05-2022.pdf>states 
that the BoD shall:

(d) Take such appropriate action as lies within 
its power to advance Israel's security, welfare and standing.

In her evidence Marie van der Zyl 
<https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Tribunal%20Determination%20%28Sizer%29%206%20December%202022.pdf>accepted

‘that part of the constitution refers to 
promoting a sympathetic understanding of Israel, 
nevertheless she maintained that, on occasions, 
the Board does criticise the state of Israel.’

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In fact the Board never criticises the Israeli 
State. When Israeli snipers murdered 234 unarmed 
Palestinians who were demonstrating as part of 
the 
<https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/>Great 
Return 
marc<https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/>h, 
the Board defended the murders and criticised the 
victims. Arkush and Zyl, who both gave evidence 
to the tribunal, issued a press release stating:

“No state could allow its borders to be breached 
by those who openly wish harm to its civilians. 
Israel is defending its people from repeated violent attempts at mass invasion.

“The responsibility for the violence lies with 
Hamas, a terrorist organisation with the explicit 
stated aim of murdering Israeli civilians and the 
ultimate destruction of the State of Israel.

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It was a lie from start to finish. Those who were 
murdered were unarmed civilians. Arkush and Zyl 
claimed that Israel’s border was breached (there 
is no border, it’s a fence) but even if it had 
been breached shooting down refugees in cold 
blood is still a war crime. Palestinians at a 
distance from the fence like 21 year old 
Palestinian medic 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Rouzan_al-Najjar>Razan 
al Najar were shot dead and thousands were 
injured. The Board defended this and all Israel’s other crimes.

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21 Year Old Palestinian Medic Razan al Najar was 
murdered by an Israeli soldier - she was considered a 'terrorist'

Hundreds of British Jews 
<https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/hundreds-of-british-jews-sign-letter-criticising-board-of-deputies-gaza-response/>signed 
a letter protesting at the BOD’s support for the 
murder of civilians. Yet the Tribunal preferred 
to accept the claim that the BoD represents British Jews at face value.

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When Israel passed the 
<https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf>Jewish 
Nation State Law in 2018, which affirmed that 
Israel was a state, representing only its Jewish 
citizens, the BoD refused to criticise it. It 
<https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-reacts-to-israels-nation-state-law/>expressed 
‘concern’

Nor has the BoD expressed even the slightest 
concern at the fact that the new Israeli 
government 
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-10/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/israels-government-has-neo-nazi-ministers-it-really-does-recall-germany-in-1933/00000186-3a49-d80f-abff-7ac9c7ff0000>contains 
Jewish neo-Nazis as Ministers. Like the 3 wise 
monkeys the Board says, sees and hears nothing.

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The BoD Complains Again About Stephen Sizer

If at first you don’t succeed try and try again. 
Especially if there is a new, racist Archbishop of Canterbury in place.

In January 2015 Arkush made another Complaint, 
this time to Bishop Andrew, the new Bishop of 
Guildford. On 30 January 2015, the Diocese 
published a press statement quoting Sizer:

“I have never believed Israel, or any other 
country was complicit in the terrorist atrocity 
of 9/11, and my sharing of this material was ill-considered and misguided.”

In a press statement of February 2015, Bishop Andrew said

"Having now met Stephen, in my brand-new role as 
Bishop of Guildford, I do not believe that his motives are anti-Semitic
”

  ‘Anti-Semitism’ was not why Arkush complained. 
His purpose was to silence a critic of Israel’s 
treatment of Christian Palestinians. This is why 
the witchhunt continued to its medieval conclusion.

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Nick Howard, son of former Tory leader Michael 
Howard, member of Christian Messianic sect, 
repeatedly defamed Stephen Sizer. He was 
<https://www.christiantoday.com/article/former.conservative.party.leaders.son.refused.ordination.by.church.of.england/7830.htm>refused 
ordination as a priest because of an 
"unwillingness to listen" to others' viewpoints."

Amazingly throughout this whole affair the BoD, 
the CCJ and the various Evangelical defamers, 
Howard et al. have not been able to produce one 
anti-Semitic word or phrase that Sizer has used.

The agenda of those persecuting Stephen Sizer was 
crystal clear and Welby was aware from the start 
what it was. The Church Tribunal under David 
Pittaway behaved in exactly the same way as the 
<https://www.britannica.com/topic/Congregation-for-the-Doctrine-of-the-Faith>Congregation 
of the Doctrine of Faith under the Inquisition.

At times the tribunal descended from comedy to 
farce, for example when Van der Zyl became 
hysterical and was rebuked by the Chair for 
refusing to answer questions under 
cross-examination or when Arkush suffered a 
senior moment when being reminded that a Subject 
Access Request to the CCJ had revealed that Nick 
Howard, (son of Michael Howard) a Messianic 
(Christian) Zionist had been drafting his crib 
sheets when he confronted Dr Sizer’s bishop.

What on earth was the President of the Board of 
Deputies doing relying on crib sheets prepared by 
Messianic Jews (who are not even recognised as 
Jews in Israel)? Because they even more Zionist 
than the Zionists. What would members of the BoD make of that?

And where were the prosecution witnesses? Could 
they not find a single person within the Jewish 
community who was offended by his Facebook posts or what he had written?

But embarrassing moments were shared equally 
between the Board of Deputies and the Church of England.

On the fourth day of the tribunal, we were 
convinced that the case had collapsed when the 
expert witness for the prosecution, Bishop 
Ipgrave, chair of CCJ, admitted under cross 
examination that he was not an expert witness and 
had either not read or just plain ignored the 
instructions given him about what to include and 
not include in his definition of antisemitism.

Exasperated, at that point, the Chair turned to 
the only expert witness left standing, Tony 
Lerman, and asked him to please help them out and 
provide a simple definition of antisemitism.

When Mr Lerman spelt out the blindingly obvious, 
namely that the discredited IHRA misdefinition of 
antisemitism (on which the entire case against Dr 
Sizer rested) fell at the first test of a 
definition, in being indefinite, it seemed clear 
that the complaint had collapsed.

Perhaps that is why the panel took six months to 
recover their composure before finally publishing 
their decision, which, surprise, surprise, 
included the entire wording of the aforementioned 
IHRA misdefinition. Perhaps they did so to 
placate the BoD (who had coerced the Archbishops 
to adopt it) and make the House of Bishops look 
less foolish for adopting the IHRA, 
(coincidentally within days of the complaint being lodged).

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Was the shockingly disproportionate severity of 
the penalty in part because the panel were miffed 
at being contradicted by the former Bishop of 
Jerusalem? In his letter of support for Dr Sizer, 
Bishop Assal observed that they had clearly not 
consulted a Middle East bishop on the necessity 
of wearing clerical attire, in particular in a 
war zone like Southern Lebanon. The bishop 
pointed out that clergy were required to wear a 
clerical shirt at all times and NOT doing so 
would be regarded as irresponsible and ‘conduct unbecoming’.

In what was clearly a rebuke to the Anglican 
hierarchy, this feisty octogenarian, wished there 
were more courageous bishops and clergy like Dr 
Sizer willing to challenge Israeli apartheid and 
their Christian Zionist fan club. He insisted 
‘western appeasement’ (read silence of the CoE) 
was leading to the extinction of Palestinian 
Christians in the Holy land. Not the legacy Welby 
might wish to be remembered for.

The Decision

The Tribunal consisted of 5 members - The 
Worshipful David Pittaway KC (Chair), The Rev. 
Geoffrey Eze, The Rev. Canon Liz Hughes., Canon 
Andrew Halstead and Ms Gabrielle Higgins.

My first impression on reading the Decision was 
its superficiality. It was as if the tribunal 
found issues of racism, anti-Semitism and Zionism 
too difficult to comprehend. Where decisions were 
reached there was little or no explanation. It was intellectually lightweight.

Counsel for the Prosecution, Mr Leviseur argued that Stephen Sizer’s

‘course of conduct, taken collectively, provoked 
and offended the Jewish community’.

And sure enough, the tribunal at para. 95 of its 
decision, repeats this without even pausing for thought. They found that:

the question is not whether the Respondent 
intended to offend or provoke anyone nor whether 
the Tribunal is offended by his behaviour but 
whether the Jewish community was offended and provoked by his conduct

What if ‘the Jewish community’ (a non-existent 
entity) were offended? A tribunal with a slightly 
greater cerebral capacity would have asked 
whether you can have free speech if you don’t have the right to offend people?

In the case of 
<https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Scottow-v-CPS-judgment-161220.pdf>Katherine 
Elizabeth Scottow v CPS the Court of Appeal ruled 
that the right to offend is an integral part of 
freedom of speech: “Freedom only to speak 
inoffensively is not worth having.” Not once in 
their decision did the tribunal even begin to 
appreciate that even had this mythical ‘Jewish 
community’ been offended by Sizer’s writings then 
that was the price of free speech.

In para. 91 of its decision the tribunal was 
reminded that Article 10 of the European 
Convention of Human Rights affirms the right of 
free speech. The tribunal in its decision simply ignored the submission.

In 
<https://archive.crin.org/en/library/legal-database/handyside-v-united-kingdom.html>Handyside 
v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of 
Human Rights held that the right to freedom of 
expression in Article 10 of the ECHR protects not 
only expressions that are favorably received but 
also those that ‘offend, shock or disturb’.

The tribunal simply ignored case law finding (para. 117) that:

To the extent that it was submitted on behalf of 
the Respondent that any of the matters complained 
of come within section 8(3) of the CDM, namely 
that they were the consequence of lawful 
political opinions or activities, the Tribunal rejects that submission.

Again there was no reasoning. It is difficult to 
avoid the conclusion that the tribunal was out of its depth.

Racists are undoubtedly offended by anti-racism. 
Israeli Jews are offended by the idea that the 
Israeli state should be a democratic state of all 
its citizens. Should we bow to Jewish Supremacy?

Likewise the BoD wasn’t offended by Stephen 
Sizer’s ‘anti-Semitism’ but his persistent and 
consistent advocacy for the Palestinians. That 
and that alone has resulted in his being banned.

The tribunal indulged in mundane clichés. How do 
you offend a whole community? What evidence was 
there for such an assertion? 99.9% of British 
Jews have probably never read a word by Sizer. 
Opposition to Zionism and support for the 
Palestinians certainly offends the BoD because it 
is an aggressive pro-Israel lobby group.

The most cogent evidence was given by Frances 
Webber of the Institute for Race Relations. The 
accusations against Sizer had nothing to with 
either racism or anti-Semitism. ‘Causing offence’ 
was really about ‘thought policing’.

Webber emphasised that causing offence is not 
synonymous with racism. Racism is certainly 
offensive but not everything that is offensive is 
racist. The tribunal was incapable of moving 
beyond ‘giving offence’ to the BoD and asking why 
the knives were out for Sizer by an assortment of 
Zionist groups and individuals.

Summary of the Allegations Against Stephen Sizer

The first Board of Deputies complaint was made by 
Jonathan Arkush on 26 October 2012. It consisted 
of a series of trivialities such as inadvertently 
linking to anti-Semitic sites such as the 
<http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/>Ugly Truth.

Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was posting 
photographs of the Israeli army under the title 
“Herod’s Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem Today” 
Arkush drew the conclusion that

Rev Sizer is therefore insinuating that Israeli 
soldiers are therefore both child killers and 
potential killers of Christ, or that any Jew in 
uniform becomes these two things.

What Arkush was saying was that these armed thugs 
should not be criticised because they were 
Jewish. The dishonesty in Arkush’s argument is 
plain to see. He elides Jews and the Israeli army 
into one. The Israeli army are child killers. 
<https://actionaid.org/news/2023/deadliest-year-nearly-40-children-among-over-230-palestinians-killed-israeli-forces-and>Nearly 
40 Palestinian children were killed out of over 
230 murdered Palestinians in 2022.  How can the 
truth be anti-Semitic? The tribunal didn’t say.

On 13th June 2011 Sizer gave a TV interview in 
which he claimed that the British far right and 
Zionists were 
<https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2017/12/exclusive-focus-on-jonathan-hoffmans.html>forming 
an alliance because their common enemy were 
Muslims. But this is true but apparently still 
anti-Semitic! Was Tommy Robinson 
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tommy-robinson-far-right-leader-attends-london-pro-israel-rally>attending 
the Board’s own demonstration in support of Israel an illusion?

On 5th July 2011 Sizer linked to an article in 
the Palestine Telegraph which accused Israel of 
killing scientists all over the world. Apparently 
that is anti-Semitic although it is true.

On 24th December 2011 Sizer gave an interview to 
Qods News Agency. Qods News Agency is apparently 
a Holocaust denying website. Does that mean that Sizer is a holocaust denier?

On 31st December 2011 Sizer’s blog linked to a 
piece by 
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/uri-avnery-obituary>Uri 
Avnery on the 
<https://www.redressonline.com/>Redress website. 
It is not immediately obvious that Redress has 
anti-Semitic content. Avnery was a former member 
of the Israeli Knesset and a founder of the 
Israeli peace camp. A more absurd accusation is difficult to imagine.

On 1st March 2012 Sizer posted a picture of 
American bases surrounding Iran on his blog. 
Because it came from the Veterans Today site it is also not kosher.

Later in March 2012 Sizer, in an interview with 
Arab radio, referred to the “power of the Zionist 
lobby” and recommended Al Manar TV which 
apparently hosted a programme on a global Jewish 
government. Was Sizer aware of this? Very unlikely.

Marie van der Zyl complained that Sizer had 
supported Raed Saleh, a Palestinian Israeli who 
is ‘known for spreading the blood libel claim 
against Jews and otherwise inciting 
antisemitism.’ But that was a lie. Raed Saleh was 
accused of this by the Home Office in 2011. The 
Upper Immigration Tribunal found that the 
allegations against him were false and that the 
evidence had been tampered with.

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It is true that an Israeli court subsequently 
found him guilty of racial hatred but here’s the 
problem. In Israel Jews are never convicted of 
this offence even when they demonstrate chanting 
‘Death to the Arabs’. It is only Palestinians who 
are ever found guilty of racism in Israel! See 
<https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/26/may-warned-case-sheikh-salah>May 
warned of weak case against Sheikh Raed Salah. Mr 
Justice Ockelton ruled on the blood libel issue that:

  “...there is no reliable evidence of [Salah] 
using words carrying a reference to the blood 
libel save in the single passage in a sermon 
delivered five years ago. ... The absence of 
other evidence is striking ... [Salah] is a 
prominent public figure and a prolific speaker. 
... his speeches are of interest to the 
authorties in Israel. ... We think it can be 
fairly said that the evidence before us is not a 
sample, or 'the tip of the iceberg': it is simply all the evidence there is.”

Raed Saleh denied that he had referred to the 
blood libel but contrast that with van der Zyl’s 
statement that he was ‘known for spreading the 
blood libel claim against Jews’. Van der Zyl is a bad liar.

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Jeff Halper and Stephen Sizer

There were many supporting statements, including 
my own, in the tribunal but because of procedural 
manoeuvring they were unable to be used because 
the Prosecution had a veto on which witnesses 
were called. I want to quote from just one 
supporting 
<https://icahd.org/2022/05/17/statement-in-support-of-stephen-sizer/>statement 
by Dr Jeff Halper of the 
<https://icahd.org/2022/05/17/statement-in-support-of-stephen-sizer/>Israeli 
Committee Against House Demolitions.

No one in the world has stood with the besieged 
Christians of Palestine more than Dr Sizer. He 
has given voice to their distress when the Church 
of England has been silent. The fact that the 
Church has gone to the extreme of accusing Dr 
Sizer of anti-Semitism because he speaks up in 
defence of Palestinian Christians only compounds 
the sin.  It is morally grotesque that the Church 
of England is submitting Dr Sizer to a medieval 
Tribunal (euphemistically called a “Clergy 
Discipline Measure”) at the instigation of the 
organized British Jewish community instead of 
examining its own role in facilitating Israel’s 
persecution of Palestine’s Christians. And it is 
equally outrageous that Jews even consider 
participating in religious Tribunals given what 
Jews experienced in the Inquisition. “Support for 
Israel,” it seems, is exposing the immorality and 
cynicism of the highest figures in our major religions.

I have known Dr. Sizer for over twenty years. I 
respect his moral position on Israel. I certainly 
respect his academic work on Christian Zionism, 
one of the most insidious and antisemitic 
religious doctrines in modern history and 
profoundly anti-Israel (Israel exists to bring on 
the Christian End of Days in which virtually all 
Jews die or become Christians). I respect Dr. 
Sizer’s willingness to go beyond the comforts of 
parish life to engage critically in an issue of 
central concern to us all: how to prevent Israel 
from becoming the next apartheid South Africa, 
how to prevent Jews from becoming Afrikaners, and 
how to liberate the Palestinian people from the 
yoke of occupation and apartheid – causes 
Christians and Jews should be engaged with rather 
than outdated and discredited Tribunals. And 
while I don’t use Dr. Sizer’s faith-based 
language, I have never heard him utter a word 
that I would consider antisemitic. To accuse or 
“convict” him of such is truly medieval. It is 
all the more outrageous if you and your Tribunal 
are basing your judgement on the false and 
tendentious position represented by the IHRA 
assertion that any criticism of Israel is de 
facto antisemitic – a position disavowed by 
Kenneth Stern, who drafted the IHRA paper (only 
intended as a “working definition”), as well as 
by dozens of prominent Jewish and Israeli 
scholars and progressive Jewish and Israeli organizations

The reality is that Justin Welby, who covered for 
child abuse, has allowed this Medieval 
Inquisition to take place because he is himself a 
Christian Zionist. In so doing he has 
deliberately turned a blind eye to the ongoing 
attacks on the Palestinian Christian community.

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Christian protest in Jerusalem against repeated 
Zionist Attacks and Vandalism - Welby remains silent

Palestinian Christians don’t suffer from taking 
offence at criticism. They suffer from arson at 
their churches, repeated vandalism in their 
graveyards, spitting on the streets of Jerusalem 
by Jewish nationalists, physical attacks by the 
Police and state. It’s not hurt feelings but 
attempts to drive them out altogether that they 
experience and in this Justin Welby is complicit 
because he refuses to condemn the racism of 
Zionism. Like all Christian Zionists he believes 
that Jews will ‘return’ to Palestine in order 
that the Battle of Armageddon can take place and 
then he and his fellows will rapture to heaven. 
Most Jews will perish but that is a small price 
to pay for everlasting salvation.

Below are just some of the headlines concerning, 
not fake ‘anti-Semitism’ or taking offence at 
criticism but real racist attacks:


<https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/02/04/in-jerusalem-attacks-on-christians-are-on-the-rise_6014400_4.html>In 
Jerusalem, attacks on Christians are on the rise

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The Church of Flagellation, Jerusalem

Le Monde 4.2.23.

On the morning of Thursday, February 2, a man 
entered the Chapel of Flagellation in the Old 
City of Jerusalem, allegedly built on the site 
where Pontius Pilate handed over Jesus for 
execution, the first of the Stations of the Cross 
in the Catholic tradition. The vandal struck a 
wooden statue of Christ with a hammer
.

This was the fifth attack in five weeks against 
Christians, their places of worship and their 
properties in the Holy Land, compared with 13 in 
the whole of 2020 and nine in 2021.


<https://j-diocese.org/wordpress/2021/12/14/statement-on-the-current-threat-to-the-christian-presence-in-the-holy-land/>Statement 
on the Current Threat to the Christian Presence 
in the Holy Land December 14th, 2021

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<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-christians-israel-accused-discrimination-warn-decline>Jerusalem 
churches accuse Israel of discrimination and warn of Christian decline

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Whereas Benzi Gopstein (left) was freed without 
charges, Raed Saleh was imprisoned for 3 years - 
Jewish racists are rarely prosecuted


Churches burned

Since 2015, far-right Israeli activists have 
attacked several churches in Israel and Palestine.

Some 
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-lehava-extremist-group-marching-jerusalem>Israeli 
figures close to the growing Religious Zionism 
political movement, which has four MPs, have been 
outspoken about banning Christmas and said that 
churches are places of worshipping idols, calling for their destruction.

The 
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/arson-suspected-in-fire-at-church-on-sea-of-galilee/>Church 
of the Multiplication on the Sea of Galilee 
suffered from an arson attack in 2015 at the 
hands of an Israeli far-right group.

Last December, an Israeli man attempted to set 
fire to East Jerusalem's historic 
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-arrested-attempted-arson-jerusalem-church-all-nations>Gethsemane 
Church, also known as the Church of All Nations, before being arrested.

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<https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2023/01/holy-land-church-leaders-condemn-settler-attack-in-jerusalems-christian-quarter>Holy 
Land church leaders condemn settler attack in Jerusalem’s Christian quarter

On Thursday evening, a group of settlers swarmed 
the Taboon Wine Barat the New Gate in the 
Christian Quarter of Jerusalem. CCTV footage 
shows the group carrying banners and throwing 
chairs violently toward the restaurant and those seated inside.

Israeli police, who arrived an hour after a call 
had been made, ushered the crowd away but reportedly made no arrests.

<https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2022/12/christian-leader-warns-netanyahu-about-anti-christian-forces-in-new-government>Christian 
leader warns Netanyahu about anti-Christian forces in new government

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<https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2022/12/as-hardliners-take-power-in-israel-church-leaders-warn-of-anti-christian-discrimination>Givati 
soldiers accused of spitting at Armenian archbishop in Jerusalem procession

<https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2022/12/as-hardliners-take-power-in-israel-church-leaders-warn-of-anti-christian-discrimination>As 
hardliners take power in Israel, church leaders 
warn of anti-Christian discrimination


<https://www.haaretz.com/2011-11-04/ty-article/ultra-orthodox-spitting-attacks-on-old-city-clergymen-becoming-daily/0000017f-e655-df5f-a17f-ffdf0ccf0000>Ultra-Orthodox 
Spitting Attacks on Old City Clergymen Becoming Daily

Clergymen in the Armenian Church in Jerusalem say 
they are victims of harassment, from senior 
cardinals to priesthood students; when they do 
complain, the police don't usually find the perpetrators.

Ultra-Orthodox young men curse and spit at 
Christian clergymen in the streets of Jerusalem's 
Old City as a matter of routine. In most cases 
the clergymen ignore the attacks, but sometimes 
they strike back. Last week the Jerusalem 
Magistrate's Court quashed the indictment against 
an Armenian priesthood student who had punched the man who spat at him.

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<https://www.haaretz.com/2015-08-06/ty-article/.premium/israeli-extremist-group-leader-calls-for-torching-of-churches/0000017f-f68a-d5bd-a17f-f6badc6e0000>Israeli 
Extremist Group Leader Calls for Torching of Churches

Instead of conducting an Inquisition and 
crucifying Stephen Sizer, Welby and the CoE would 
do well do address the racism of an Israeli state 
that the BoD has repeatedly defended. It doesn’t 
take a genius to work out that the close 
monitoring of Stephen Sizer’s blog and social 
media output has nothing to do with anti-Semitism 
and everything to do with Israel and Zionism.

When Jewish neo-Nazis such as 
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/25/far-right-ben-gvir-to-be-police-minister-in-israeli>Itamar 
Ben Gvir, who even Israeli courts have convicted 
of racial incitement becomes Israel’s Police 
Minister and when proposals are being made to 
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-backs-repeal-of-law-banning-racists-from-knesset-plans-replacement-bill/>repeal 
a law preventing racist candidates standing 
election to the Knesset, it is obscene that the 
CoE and its Christian Zionist defenders are 
allowed to persecute a brave and fearless defender of the weak and oppressed.

Tony Greenstein
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a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of 
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