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<h2><b>22 February 2023<br><br>
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<a href="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</a> </b></h3><div align="center"><b>Instead
of Condemning the neo-Nazis Who Attack Christian Palestinians Justin
Welby prefers to play the role of Pontius Pilate<br><br>
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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,
<a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/the-nazi-era-archbishop-of-canterbury-suggested-jews-were">
suggested</a> to American diplomat James McDonald shortly before World
War II that the Jews were responsible for their persecution by the
Nazis.<br><br>
Terence Tastard
<a href="https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/14353">writes</a> in his
PhD thesis <i>‘The Response of the English Churches to the Nazi
Persecution of the Jews 1933-1945</i>’ that:<br><br>
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 <i>Der Sturmer</i>] , Lang had little to say about the situation of
the Jews as the crisis in Germany deepened between 1934 and
1938.<br><br>
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In recent times, with the exception of Archbishops of Canterbury George
Carey and Justin Welby, who both
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/24/ex-archbishop-george-carey-gave-uncritical-support-to-disgraced-bishop-inquiry-told">
protected</a> child-abusers within the Church, senior prelates like
Robert Runcie and Rowan Williams have tended to the more liberal side of
politics.<br><br>
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<b>Archbishop Justin Welby<br><br>
</b>With the advent of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby">Justin Welby</a> 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.<br><br>
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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
<a href="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</a>, which was ‘<i>an indictment of Thatcher’s
free-market policies</i>.’ Almost immediately Chief Rabbi Jakobovits
<a href="https://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/10/08/what-margaret-thatchers-rabbi-taught-about-work-welfare-and">
leapt to her defence</a> with <i>From Doom to Hope,
</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_in_the_City">arguing</a>
<i>:<br><br>
</i>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 <br><br>
leading Thatcher to remark<br><br>
“Oh, how I wish our own [Anglican] church leaders would take a leaf out
of your Chief Rabbi’s book.”<br><br>
British Jewish hostility to socialism did not start with Corbyn!
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Thatcher was known to have
<a href="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</a> paedophiles such as her closest aide
<a href="https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/child-abuse-inquiry-finds-ex-17810628">
Peter Morrison</a>, so Carey was a natural choice for her.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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Welby worked for 11 years in the oil industry and in 1984 he became
treasurer of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Oil">Enterprise
Oil</a>. 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.<br><br>
In July 2013, following a Parliamentary Report on Banking Standards,
Welby leapt to the defence of bankers,
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10194529/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-warns-of-lynch-mob-against-bankers.html">
warning</a> 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
<a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_885099_en.html">over 300,000
deaths</a> from austerity as the poor paid the price. Welby’s sympathies
however were firmly with the bankers not the poor.<br><br>
<div align="center"><b>Mehdi Hassan on ISIS and Blowback<br><br>
</b></div>
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
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/welby-time-to-stop-saying-isil-has-nothing-to-do-with-islam/">
quoted</a> as saying that<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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 <i>Al
Quaeda in Iraq</i> and then <i>ISIS</i>. Welby of course kept silent
because, as an oil trader, he benefited from the genocide in
Iraq.<br><br>
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
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smyth_(barrister)">John
Smyth</a> beat boys in the late 1970s until their wounds bled and left
permanent scars. Smyth was a senior member of Christian charity the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwerne_Trust">Iwerne Trust</a> in
the 1970s and 1980s. <br><br>
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Welby was a dormitory officer at camps held in the Dorset village of
Iwerne Minster. Smyth was
<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-changes-his-tune-about-link-to-sex-abuse-camp-zdp06nl8b">
described</a> by Welby in 2017 as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/justin-welby-church-england-john-smyth-abuse-claims">
"charming" and "delightful</a>." They even swapped
Christmas cards for some years. Andrew Atherstone in <i>Risk Taker and
Reconciler</i>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#cite_note-115">
described</a> Welby as having been <br><br>
involved in the camps as an undergraduate […] businessman and theological
college student in the 1980s and early 1990s.<br><br>
Welby stated that <i>"I had no contact with them at all".</i>
It later materialised that Welby
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#cite_note-115">had
attended the camp</a> in this period and had
<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-changes-his-tune-about-link-to-sex-abuse-camp-zdp06nl8b">
continued</a> to receive the camp newsletter. <br><br>
In 2012, a victim of Smyth reported the abuse to the CoE and Welby was
informed in 2013. Welby
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/01/archbishop-canterbury-apologises-links-child-abuser-emerge/">
maintained</a> that this was the first he had heard of the abuse by his
old friend. <i>The New York Times</i> on 14 October 2017
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/justin-welby-archbishop-of-canterbury-iwerne-abuse.html">
quoted</a> a senior Church of England figure as saying that <br><br>
“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". <br><br>
Questions have remained among Smyth victims as to when Welby first knew.
Some have labelled the Archbishop an "<i>observer</i>", a term
denoting a person who knew about abuse but who did not report
it.<br><br>
None of this stopped Welby, on 30 January 2023
<a href="https://www.ukpol.co.uk/justin-welby-2023-statement-on-stephen-sizer-penalty-judgment/">
issuing</a> a statement on Stephen Sizer. Hypocrisy is, after all, the
tribute that vice pays to virtue. Welby pontificated that:<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
Unfortunately<i> </i>Welby refused to take his own advice on <i>‘the
highest possible standards’. </i>Despite
<a href="https://x.facebook.com/virtueonline/photos/a.10153416637649572/10162628937584572/?type=3&source=48">
multiple calls</a> he has refused to resign.<br><br>
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<b>The Crucifixion of Stephen Sizer<br><br>
</b>From 1997 to 2017 Sizer was the Vicar of Christ Church, Virginia
Water. Stephen was an
<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Christian_Zionism.html?id=YtUsAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y">
expert</a> on Christian Zionism<i>.</i> <br><br>
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
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time">End Times</a>.<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
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
<a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/church-of-england-slavery-links-profit-slave-trade-explained-450565">
active participant</a> in the slave trade <br><br>
Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, his two estates were
left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The plantations
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codrington_Plantations">were
reliant</a> 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.<br><br>
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Whilst
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/justin-welby-tells-synod-he-is-sorry-and-ashamed-over-churchs-racism">
acknowledging</a> that the CoE is <i>‘institutionally racist’</i> 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.<br><br>
<b>The Racist Board of Deputies [BoD] of British Jews <br><br>
</b>There is a
<a href="https://law.jrank.org/pages/8487/Maxim--He-who-comes-into-equity-must-come-with-clean-hands.html">
saying</a> in law that “<i>He Who Comes Into Equity Must Come With Clean
Hands</i>.” In other words you cannot accuse others of a crime if you are
also guilty! So it is with the Board of Deputies. <br><br>
The Board of Deputies is primarily an advocate and defender of Israeli
Apartheid. It is riddled with Islamaphobes and racists. <br><br>
Samuel Hayek, Chair of JNF UK agreed with the neo-Nazi
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/great-replacement-theory-alt-right-killers-el-paso">
White Replacement Theory</a> in which Muslims are driving White people
from Europe. Its anti-Semitic version has Jews behind it. Hayek
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-national-fund-uk-chair-jews-have-no-future-in-england/">
declared</a> that <i>“Jews have no future in England”</i>:<br><br>
<i>The evidence is the number of immigrants to England. The demographic
of British society is changing.<br><br>
</i>Asked if he was referring to Muslims, he
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/charity-chiefs-migrant-warning-sparks-communal-outrage/">
confirmed </a>that was so: <br><br>
<i>Our problem in the West is that we do not understand Islam. In Islam
there is not a term for ‘peace’.<br><br>
</i>
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Gary Mond, another JNF trustee and also Senior Vice-President of the BoD
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-national-fund-uk-chair-jews-have-no-future-in-england/">
spoke</a> of his “<i>respect</i>” for Hayek over the comments. <br><br>
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
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/pamela-geller">
Southern Poverty Law Centre</a><br><br>
Geller has a long history of working with extremists and racists in the
United States, Canada and Europe, including the
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/jewish-defense-league">
Jewish Defense League</a>, the
<a href="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</a> and the
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist">
white nationalist</a> group
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/12/american-racists-work-spread-%E2%80%98identitarian%E2%80%99-ideology">
Bloc Identitaire</a>, among others.<br><br>
A
<a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/community/board-of-deputies-senior-vp-suspended-over-social-media-activity-5EW8KK8TIZpJlrFBqkajst">
Facebook post</a> by Mond stated that <br><br>
"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."<br><br>
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Mond was not alone. Three years ago the BoD
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-jewish-leader-suspended-for-tweets-calling-arabs-the-vilest-of-animals/">
suspended</a> for 6 years Roslyn Pine for describing Arabs as <i>“the
vilest of animals.”</i> Three years previously Pine had
<a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/07/13/global/uk-jewish-communal-leader-suspended-anti-muslim-arab-rhetoric">
said</a> that it was a pity that the pro-Palestinian Swedish foreign
minister was “<i>too old to be raped</i>.” <br><br>
This didn’t stop the BoD Executive
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/finchley-synagogue-to-discuss-the-plight-of-suspended-deputy-roslyn-pine/">
ruling</a> that Pine could return early from her suspension if she
‘<i>apologised, showed contrition and expressed remorse’. </i>Contrast
that with the
<a href="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</a> on Stephen Sizer for a concoction of tittle tattle and
links made in error, as the BoD demanded its pound of flesh or the
<a href="https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1217775011286736896/photo/1">
demand</a> of the BoD that Labour members expelled for ‘anti-Semitism’
<i>‘will never be readmitted to membership’</i>. <br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsc8E_nXBUs&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fblogspot.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt">
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</a><b>
<a href="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</a><br><br>
</b>What was the reaction of Pine’s Finchley United Synagogue  which
she represented? The Jewish News
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/finchley-synagogue-to-discuss-the-plight-of-suspended-deputy-roslyn-pine/">
reported</a> that <br><br>
Finchley Synagogue will look into the <b>plight</b> of its suspended
deputy Roslyn Pine as a matter of “urgency”. (my emphasis)<br><br>
<h2><b>Pine’s suspension has not prevented her from
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/deputy-banned-for-vile-muslims-tweet-in-group-backing-challenger-to-lead-board/">
taking part</a> in the ‘BoD caucus’ group, which attempted to remove
Board President Marie van der Zyl in favour of
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/far-right-row-ahead-of-vote-for-new-board-of-deputies-president/">
far-right-winger</a> Jonathan Neumann. Zyl only just won as Neumann
<a href="https://bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Honorary-Officer-Elections-2021-Results-1.pdf">
gained</a> 43.7%. According to the
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/deputy-banned-for-vile-muslims-tweet-in-group-backing-challenger-to-lead-board/">
Jewish News</a></i></b></h2>Leaked emails show Roslyn Pine has
contributed to the online BoD-caucus group in recent weeks despite being
removed from the Board in 2018 …<br><br>
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”. <br><br>
Pine’s post included the claim: <i>“The idea that traveller communities
share a commonality with us is absurd.”<br><br>
</i>
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<br><br>
<br>
Board of Deputies Representative Robert Festenheim appears in Tommy
Robinson Propaganda Video<br><br>
<br>
<h2><b>If the Board were serious about getting rid of its racists it
would have removed
<a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/tommy-robinson-is-not-my-client-says-manchester-jewish-lawyer-1.440997">
Robert Festenheim</a>, the Prestwich Deputy, solicitor and advisor to
Tommy Robinson and Robinson’s solicitor
<a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/06/jonathan-hoffman-and-damon-lenzner.html">
Daniel Berke</a>.</b></h2>In January 2022 Mond, who received the highest
vote of the 3 Vice-Presidents, was
<a href="https://stljewishlight.org/news/world-news/a-british-jewish-leader-has-resigned-following-his-comments-about-muslims/">
forced to resign</a>. Mond had
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-jewish-leader-resigns-following-comments-about-war-with-islam/">
written on Facebook</a> and
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/board-of-deputies-senior-vp-asked-to-step-down-over-far-right-social-media-posts/">
tweeted</a> that ‘<i>all civilization’</i> is ‘<i>at war with Islam.’</i>
Note the contrast with the Board’s fulminations against Stephen
Sizer.<br><br>
The tribunal ignored the fact that Section 3(d) of the Board’s
Constitution
<a href="https://bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Board-of-Deputies-Constitution-22-05-2022.pdf">
states</a> that the BoD <b>shall</b>:<br><br>
(d) Take such appropriate action as lies within its power to advance
Israel's security, welfare and standing.<br><br>
In her evidence Marie van der Zyl
<a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Tribunal%20Determination%20%28Sizer%29%206%20December%202022.pdf">
accepted</a><br><br>
‘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.’<br><br>
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In fact the Board <b>never </b>criticises the Israeli State. When Israeli
snipers murdered 234 unarmed Palestinians who were demonstrating as part
of the <a href="https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/">Great
Return
marc</a><a href="https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/">h</a>,
the Board defended the murders and criticised the victims. Arkush and
Zyl, who both gave evidence to the tribunal, issued a press release
stating:<br><br>
“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.<br><br>
“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.<br><br>
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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
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Rouzan_al-Najjar">Razan
al Najar</a> were shot dead and thousands were injured. The Board
defended this and all Israel’s other crimes.<br><br>
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<b>21 Year Old Palestinian Medic Razan al Najar was murdered by an
Israeli soldier - she was considered a 'terrorist'<br><br>
</b>Hundreds of British Jews
<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/hundreds-of-british-jews-sign-letter-criticising-board-of-deputies-gaza-response/">
signed</a> 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.<br><br>
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When Israel passed the
<a href="https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf">
Jewish Nation State Law</a> in 2018, which affirmed that Israel was a
state, representing only its Jewish citizens, the BoD refused to
criticise it. It
<a href="https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-reacts-to-israels-nation-state-law/">
expressed</a> ‘<i>concern’</i> <br><br>
Nor has the BoD expressed even the slightest concern at the fact that the
new Israeli government
<a href="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</a> Jewish neo-Nazis as Ministers. Like the 3 wise monkeys the
Board says, sees and hears nothing.<br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<b>The BoD Complains Again About Stephen Sizer<br><br>
</b>If at first you don’t succeed try and try again. Especially if there
is a new, racist Archbishop of Canterbury in place.<br><br>
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:<br><br>
“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.”<br><br>
In a press statement of February 2015, Bishop Andrew said <br><br>
"Having now met Stephen, in my brand-new role as Bishop of
Guildford, I do not believe that his motives are anti-Semitic…”<br><br>
 ‘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.<br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<b>Nick Howard, son of former Tory leader Michael Howard, member of
Christian Messianic sect, repeatedly defamed Stephen Sizer. He was
<a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/former.conservative.party.leaders.son.refused.ordination.by.church.of.england/7830.htm">
refused </a>ordination as a priest because of an "<i>unwillingness
to listen"</i> to others' viewpoints."<br><br>
</b>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.  <br><br>
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
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Congregation-for-the-Doctrine-of-the-Faith">
Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith</a> under the Inquisition.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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?<br><br>
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?<br><br>
But embarrassing moments were shared equally between the Board of
Deputies and the Church of England. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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).
<br><br>
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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’. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>The Decision<br><br>
</b>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Counsel for the Prosecution, Mr Leviseur argued that Stephen Sizer’s
<br><br>
‘course of conduct, taken collectively, provoked and offended the Jewish
community’.<br><br>
And sure enough, the tribunal at para. 95 of its decision, repeats this
without even pausing for thought. They found that:<br><br>
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<br><br>
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? <br><br>
In the case of
<a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Scottow-v-CPS-judgment-161220.pdf">
Katherine Elizabeth Scottow v CPS</a> the Court of Appeal ruled that the
right to offend is an integral part of freedom of speech: <i>“Freedom
only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.”</i> 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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
In
<a href="https://archive.crin.org/en/library/legal-database/handyside-v-united-kingdom.html">
Handyside v. The United Kingdom</a>, 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 <i>‘offend, shock or disturb’.<br><br>
</i>The tribunal simply ignored case law finding (para. 117)
that:<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Again there was no reasoning. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion
that the tribunal was out of its depth.<br><br>
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?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. ‘<i>Causing offence’</i> was really about
<i>‘thought policing’</i>. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>Summary of the Allegations Against Stephen Sizer<br><br>
</b>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
<a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/">Ugly Truth</a>.<br><br>
Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was posting photographs of the Israeli
army under the title “<i>Herod’s Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem
Today</i>” Arkush drew the conclusion that <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.
<a href="https://actionaid.org/news/2023/deadliest-year-nearly-40-children-among-over-230-palestinians-killed-israeli-forces-and">
Nearly 40</a> Palestinian children were killed out of over 230 murdered
Palestinians in 2022.  How can the truth be anti-Semitic? The
tribunal didn’t say.<br><br>
On 13th June 2011 Sizer gave a TV interview in which he claimed that the
British far right and Zionists were
<a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2017/12/exclusive-focus-on-jonathan-hoffmans.html">
forming an alliance</a> because their common enemy were Muslims. But this
is true but apparently still anti-Semitic! Was Tommy Robinson
<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tommy-robinson-far-right-leader-attends-london-pro-israel-rally">
attending</a> the Board’s own demonstration in support of Israel an
illusion?<br><br>
On 5<sup>th</sup> July 2011<b> </b>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.<br><br>
On 24<sup>th</sup> December 2011<b> </b>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?<br><br>
On 31st December 2011<b> </b>Sizer’s blog linked to a piece by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/uri-avnery-obituary">
Uri Avnery</a> on the
<a href="https://www.redressonline.com/"><b>Redress</a> </b>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.<br><br>
On 1st March 2012 Sizer posted a picture of American bases surrounding
Iran on his blog. Because it came from the <i>Veterans Today </i>site it
is also not kosher.<br><br>
Later in March 2012 Sizer, in an interview with Arab radio, referred to
the “<i>power of the Zionist lobby</i>” and recommended Al Manar TV which
apparently hosted a programme on a global Jewish government. Was Sizer
aware of this? Very unlikely.<br><br>
Marie van der Zyl complained that Sizer had supported Raed Saleh, a
Palestinian Israeli who is <i>‘known for spreading the blood libel claim
against Jews and otherwise inciting antisemitism.’ </i>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. <br><br>
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</a><br><br>
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 ‘<i>Death to the Arabs’</i>.
It is only Palestinians who are ever found guilty of racism in Israel!
See
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/26/may-warned-case-sheikh-salah">
May warned of weak case against Sheikh Raed Salah</a>. Mr Justice
Ockelton ruled on the blood libel issue that:<br><br>
<i> “...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.”<br><br>
</i>Raed Saleh denied that he had referred to the blood libel but
contrast that with van der Zyl’s statement that he was ‘<i>known for
spreading the blood libel claim against Jews’. </i>Van der Zyl is a bad
liar.<br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<b>Jeff Halper and Stephen Sizer<br><br>
</b>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
<a href="https://icahd.org/2022/05/17/statement-in-support-of-stephen-sizer/">
statement</a> by Dr Jeff Halper of the
<a href="https://icahd.org/2022/05/17/statement-in-support-of-stephen-sizer/">
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions</a><a name="a"></a>.<br><br>
<b>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.<br><br>
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<br><br>
</b>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. <br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<b>Christian protest in Jerusalem against repeated Zionist Attacks and
Vandalism - Welby remains silent<br><br>
</b>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.<br><br>
Below are just some of the headlines concerning, not fake ‘anti-Semitism’
or taking offence at criticism but real racist attacks:<br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a></b></h1>
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</a></b></h1><br>
<b>The Church of Flagellation, Jerusalem<br><br>
</b>Le Monde 4.2.23.<br><br>
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….<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a> December 14th,
2021</b></h1>
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</a></b></h1><br><br>
<br>
<h1><b>
<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-christians-israel-accused-discrimination-warn-decline">
Jerusalem churches accuse Israel of discrimination and warn of Christian
decline</a></b></h1>
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</a></b></h1><br>
<b>Whereas Benzi Gopstein (left) was freed without charges, Raed Saleh
was imprisoned for 3 years - Jewish racists are rarely
prosecuted<br><br>
<h3><b>Churches burned</b></h3>Since 2015, far-right Israeli activists
have attacked several churches in Israel and Palestine.<br><br>
Some
<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-lehava-extremist-group-marching-jerusalem">
Israeli figures</a> 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.<br><br>
The
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/arson-suspected-in-fire-at-church-on-sea-of-galilee/">
Church of the Multiplication</a> on the Sea of Galilee suffered from an
arson attack in 2015 at the hands of an Israeli far-right group.<br><br>
Last December, an Israeli man attempted to set fire to East Jerusalem's
historic
<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-arrested-attempted-arson-jerusalem-church-all-nations">
Gethsemane Church</a>, also known as the Church of All Nations, before
being arrested.<br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a></b></h1>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.<br><br>
Israeli police, who arrived an hour after a call had been made, ushered
the crowd away but reportedly made no arrests.<br><br>
<a href="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</a><br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a></u></b></h1>
<a href="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</a><br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a></b></h1>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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</a><br><br>
<h1><b>
<a href="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</a></b></h1>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. <br><br>
When Jewish neo-Nazis such as
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/25/far-right-ben-gvir-to-be-police-minister-in-israeli">
Itamar Ben Gvir</a>, who even Israeli courts have convicted of racial
incitement becomes Israel’s Police Minister and when proposals are being
made to
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-backs-repeal-of-law-banning-racists-from-knesset-plans-replacement-bill/">
repeal a law</a> 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.<br><br>
Tony Greenstein <br>
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