Sunday, 4 November 2007

Do Anglicans have a problem with Israel?

Rafael Medoff, writing for the Jerusalem Post, says in his article, "Does the Anglican Church have an Israel problem?":  

In England during the 1930s, the Archbishop of Canterbury - leader of the Anglican Church, which was the parent body of America's Episcopal Church - was Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, who contended that 'the Jews themselves' were to blame for the 'excesses of the Nazis.'

The article says: "Today, as during the Holocaust, there are those within the Episcopal Church whose positions on issues of Jewish concern have raised troubling questions. But it is clear that there are other voices, as well."

See the full article here.

The article is also reproduced on the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Web site  here: