Wednesday, August 5, 2009
This is like the Canadian version of the UCC (United Church of Christ) as I understand it (though they are completely separate organizations). The Simon Wiesenthal Center sends the following alerts: Canada's Top Church Voting on Total Israel Boycotts
Virulent anti-Israel resolutions will be presented at the United Church of Canada's (UCC) 40th General Council this Sunday, August 9th, including "comprehensive boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions at the national and international levels".
One pending UCC resolution slanders the Jewish people's return to Zion as "built mainly on land ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian owners." This "Big-Lie", genocidally-charged phrase that Israel is guilty of "ethnic cleansing", is language deployed by the worst anti-Semites.
We therefore are urging all members of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and all friends of Israel, to act immediately against this outrage by signing this petition to the heads of the UCC, demanding that they publicly denounce these resolutions in advance of the resolutions' consideration at this weekend's General Council.
The calls for boycotts of Israeli academic and cultural institutions - the very contacts that reasonable people hail for the understanding they bring between communities - are promoted today only by the most virulent haters of the Jewish state.
The thrust and language of these resolutions are a slap in the face to the Jews of Israel and her supporters in Canada, and will empower the forces of anti-Semitism and intolerance in Canada and throughout the world.
The UCC General Council convenes this Sunday - they need to hear from us now!
Resolutions accuse Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' and urge total boycott. SWC online petition urges Church leaders to condemn language empowering "the forces of anti-Semitism and intolerance that's a "slap in the face to the Jews of Israel and her supporters in Canada"
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged the leadership of Canada's leading Protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada (UCC), to publicly denounce virulent anti-Israel resolutions slated for the Church's General Council that convenes this Sunday in Kelowna, BC. The four resolutions, most put forward by the World Affair Committee of the UCC Toronto Conference, propose boycotts of Israeli products, cultural and sporting institutions and divestment from companies that do business in Canada as a way of punishing Israel for what they see as its "racist" brutality against Palestinians. Most controversial is that their supporting materials accuse Israel of violations of the Geneva Convention, calling it an "occupying force" engaged in ethnic cleansing and that Israel was built on land stolen from Palestinians...
If you want to see how bad this is, go to this page. Scroll down to the second "Atlantic Commission" link (or just click here), and download the PDF. Note particularly the background material. Around page 84 you'll find the usual "blame Israel" language, but things get really hairy around pages 93 -103.
I guess the good news (if there is any) is that, according to my friend in Kelowna, it's unseasonably hot up there--just in time for their little confab. Hot as hell, she said. How fitting.
How does the UCC deal with their own occupation of Native American land - AKA Canaduh?
Will they boycott themselves?
Which land will the UCC members relocate to, to end their own occupation of other peoples land?
From the post:
"One pending UCC resolution slanders the Jewish people's return to Zion as "built mainly on land ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian owners."
Slander is saying things that are not true which is not the case. Iraeli settlements, destruction/confication of Palasinian homes, taking water supplies, destoying farmland, total blockade, bombing UN buildings, etc. These aren't nice things to do. The article appears factual consequenly not slanerous.
Actually, those are all outright lies.
Zach, speaking of building on ethnically cleansed land,
What do YOU consider the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, West Indies?
I'm guessing that YOU Zach are NOT a Native American, but an OCCUPIER, a BRUTAL OCCUPIER of Native American land.
When will YOU end YOUR brutal, racist, illegal occupation of Native American land and which country will you return to?
Eddie, I agree with you. What Europeans did to the indigenous people of the countries you mention was horrible. I also see truth in your analogy linking what Israel is currently doing in Palestine to what Europeans did in the Americas years ago. But like my mommy told me: "two wrongs don't make a right".
Morally and intellectually obstreperous, vain, superficially informed, wanton, would-be do-gooders who in fact help to maintain a corrupt and malevolent status quo among the Sunni Arabs in question. Useful fools, pretenders, poseurs, imaginers, presumptives, superficial egoists and moralizing narcissists.
(Not you Zach, I'm referring to the UCC. You're merely another picknose suffering from auto-cranial-posterior displacement syndrome.)
Zach, do you admit that you are a brutal racist occupier of Native American land AND a hypocrite to boot?
If so, how do you plan on ending your illegal occupation of Native American land?
Zach, you and your FELLOW HYPOCRITES should take to heart the saying that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Thank you UCC for your courage in opposing the biggest aggression and oppression of our time. I salute you fo your sense justice and courage.
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Greetigs to you in Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.
I hereby humbly apply in the name of Jesus Christ to your esteemed ministry requesting that you allow our church to be joined to yours in doing the work of our Lord.
I oversee a ministry with 5 churches is in Kampala and in Congo and 10 dedicated Pastors and a combined membership of 300 belivers at the time of this writing.The numbers keep growing as our evangelistic drive thrives.We have in our midst 300 Orpharns and170 Widows school no help who our ministry and branches take care of in various ways.
We are based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which i believe is slowly but surely recovering from years of pain and sorrow and the ravages of war. God has stirred me and my fellow ministers up to help millions of our people orphans widows no help whose lives have devastated by these conflicts and to bring hope to the hopeless through the word of God and the ministry of compassion and love in Jesus Chrrist.
I would therefore appreciate you become our partners in ministry and request you to help us morally and in doing the work of the Lord better. I would even appreciate if you can spare us time in your busy schedule to plan and visit our ministry and see firsthand what the Lord is doing to and through us.
Iam grateful for this opportunity to write to you and share our vision and mission.
I pray that you will be led of the Lord as you consider our application to you.
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