British Jews Condemn Welby for Comments on Holy Land Persecution of Christians

Dec 23, 2021 by

from Virtueonline:

Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Board of Deputies of British Jews
December 19, 2021

His Excellency
The Most Reverend Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury

Your Grace,

It is with great regret that I, as President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, feel the need to respond to your article in the Sunday Times about the situation in the Holy Land, having found certain passages deeply troubling.

I agree entirely that assaults on the Christian community in the Holy Land, carried out by extremists, are unacceptable. All people of faith have the right to freedom of worship and belief. If your article had focussed solely on the attacks that Christian clergy, communities and places of worship have tragically suffered, then this response would not have been necessary.

The article offers its own reasons for the decline of the Christian population in the Holy Land. I note that in the past century, both in Israel’s heartlands and the West Bank, the demographics show that the Palestinian population has increased significantly. If the overall Palestinian population has greatly increased, but the Palestinian Christian population has significantly declined, then clearly there are more complex reasons than those raised in the article, which appeared to attribute this decline to Jewish settlers and the barrier built to halt the wave of terror attacks of the Second Intifada.

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