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Friday, March 16, 2007

At Presbyweb, Dexter Van Zile exposes the continuing hostility to Israel on the part of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s "full time faculty" despite the clear signals sent by its own rank and file. To do so, Dexter takes a close look at some of the educational material the group is still recommending, particularly the film "Peace, Propaganda and the Holy Land" which we discussed earlier, here. On the way by, he fires a couple of shots at David Ray Griffin's 9/11 conspiracy book put out by the PC(USA) publisher (previous: here and here): PC(USA) leaders still offering distorted narrative

...The refusal of the PC(USA)'s leaders and staffers to take the events of 2006 into account is particularly evident in the material about the Arab-Israeli conflict they recommend to Sunday school teachers and youth group leaders. The list of "resources," published in support of "A Week of Prayer and Witness with the Christians in the Middle East," scheduled to take place in local churches sometime between Easter and Pentecost in 2007, does not promote the cause of peace, but instead buttresses the message affirmed by the 2004 General Assembly and repudiated two years later: Israeli behavior is the sole source of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The centerpiece of the "resources" offered by Louisville is a video titled "Peace, Propaganda and the Holy Land." The video produced by the American Media Education Foundation (which includes Noam Chomsky on its Board of Advisors) is not a dispassionate or fair assessment of the Arab-Israeli conflict but is, in the words of the New York Times, a "pro-Palestinian documentary [that] presents a condensed argument in favor of prosecuting Israeli leaders in the court of American public opinion." And in order to achieve a conviction, the movie's producers and directors bury exculpatory evidence in a manner that would make even the most ferocious district attorney cringe...

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