Summary of Recent Posts

The first time I heard that was from a Christian clergyman, one of a group leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Most of the priests had no prejudice, but a couple did, and the mere sight of Jews triggered off some unmistakably anti-Semitic remarks fr… more »

After protests, Harvard University is currently “distancing itself from a report by one of its senior academics that accuses the Jewish lobby of subverting US foreign policy in Israel's interest”. Or as the Australian News outlet puts it: Harvard disow… more »

Riah Abu Asal, Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, circles the globe tirelessly, stirring up hatred for Israel. He has surfaced again at a meeting of Church Leaders in the UK, gathered for what Christian Aid euphemistically describes as ’peace in the Middle… more »

They’re changing the language. Like the media’s sneaky substitution of the word ‘militant’ for terrorist, but Palestinian Christian leaders and their supporters twist the meaning of key words frequently used by Christians. Lutheran Revd. Mitri Ra… more »

You know that International Zionist Conspiracy some people fear? (Although I don’t think it’s always quite as well organised as they suppose.) Did you know that Catholic Frank Sinatra was part of it? Frank Sinatra may have been one of America's m… more »

American Protestants, beware! Revd Mitri Raheb is after you! He wants to administer the poison of Christian heresy and hatred, sweetened with honeyed words about love and peace and reconciliation. Who is Mitri Raheb? Meet him in this fine article… more »

Another of life’s mysteries. Why do Christians in the Holy Land keep describing themselves as a ‘forgotten’ people? So many articles appear, in both the religious and secular media, telling us about their forgotten state, that we have no opportunity to… more »

One of life’s mysteries: why are certain Western Church leaders so quick to speak up for the (mostly Muslim) Palestinians and yet silent when their own Christian brothers and sisters are persecuted? They produce a lot of hot air and noise about Israel’s… more »

Just another glance at the Friends of Sabeel UK (or FOSUK), whose tedious minutes featured here recently. Let’s hold the magnifying glass over another of the little creatures we found in this sample from the stagnant pond of Sabeel. We've met Bishop… more »

Beware any Christian pilgrimage which includes a ‘fact-finding mission’! ‘Fact-finding missions’ and propaganda campaigns feature in no Christian pilgrimages anywhere except the Holy Land. Lourdes, Guadalupe, Santiago de Compostela, Fatima, Walsingham… more »

Yesterday I asked what people like Robert Fisk had in common with the Society of St Pius X. Now you can find out what Osama Bin Laden has in common with the SSPX. Excommunicated ‘Catholic’ Bishop Richard Williamson, who believes in the Protocols of t… more »

What have Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky got in common with the Society of St Pius X? Reminder: the SSPX is the traditionalist Catholic group which refuses to accept recent teachings of the Catholic Church. Answer: a Catholic publisher called IHS. In… more »

Rania Riah Abu El-Assal, daughter of anti-Semitic Bishop Riah, continues her father’s tradition of travelling to spread the poison of hate against the Jewish State. Here she is in America, at a meeting of UN Commission on the Status of Women. She says… more »

Or as Ekklesia puts it: “Christians meet to step up peacemaking in Israel and Palestine”. It’s one of those article where you know the word ‘peace’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. The anti-Israel obsessives and terrorist sympathizers who take pa… more »

In case you fell asleep while reading the tedious Sabeel UK material in yesterday’s post, or else couldn’t stomach so much hatred and lies and had to rush off for a strong paper bag, I’ll just remind you that it features Bishop John Gladwin. Gladwin… more »

Speak of the devil! FOSUK! Or Friends of Sabeel UK. Their latest material has fallen into my Zionist hands - page after page after page of tedious verbosity, driven by the destructive engine of their obsessive hate. These are unhappy people, who sho… more »

The Labour Government has tried to ban hunting with hounds, but without success. Packs of dogs still go hunting, under the pretext that they are engaged in a non-violent sport, like hound trailing. The Sabeel Pack, for instance, pretends it is merely… more »

In a gloomy subterranean chamber, several miles below the Sabeel Centre, shrouded figures sit around a large stone table. A few misshapen candles provide a dim and flickering light, and cast large shadows of the Elders on the rough cave walls rising hi… more »

Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggia is normally busy giving us all the very latest Catholic gossip – sometimes almost before it happens. He must be a big fan of Matisyahu, as he has broken into his usual non-stop news-gathering to give his musical he… more »

Just when certain anti-Semites thought they were driving the Church of England, like some enormous Caterpillar bulldozer, towards Israel, in the hope of demolishing it, the Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) has put the brakes on and stopped the m… more »

You can hear the grinding of journalistic teeth as you read Ekklesia breaking the news that the Anglican Church’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group has decided not to disinvest from Caterpillar after all. Ekklesia describes itself as a Christian thin… more »

Optimistic, or perhaps delusional, some Palestinian Christians continue to claim they have nothing to fear from the rule of Hamas. They certainly voice no objections to the terrorism of Hamas, its murder of innocents, and its open ambition to destroy I… more »

Yes, I know, I know – there was a Jew involved, too, but initially the fact that his wife and daughter are Christians was not mentioned, so I thought I’d redress the balance. This response by the Latin Patriarchate merely refers to “an Israeli man..… more »

Pope Benedict XVI is shaking things up at the Vatican. New cardinals are about to be appointed, but one possible candidate has been removed from the list: Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, formerly President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious… more »

It’s like a scene from the Sound of Music. A merry Palestinian woman leads a crowd of laughing children in joyous song. The children, dressed in cheerful colours, laugh merrily as they cast rose petals towards Israeli tanks. The sky is blue, the sun… more »

Anti-Semitism in its later mutation of anti-Zionism is the new bird flu of the soul, and it’s still spreading. A flock of infected parrots (of anti-Israel propaganda lies) has recently visited Pittsburgh and will soon be winging its way towards Israel… more »

I used to think that a Christian Zionist was a Christian who accepted the right of Jewish people to self-determination in a state of their own. I still do. But there are those who disagree with this right, and they attack a particular group they defi… more »

The former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has stated that he is "ashamed to be an Anglican" after the Synod decision on investment in Caterpillar. He wrote to the Times that it was a "one-eyed strategy to rebuke one side and forget the trau… more »