Waaah! Rev Naim Ateek wants to see Israel destroyed, but those mean Jews object. Bullies! Waaah! Israel insists on continuing to exist! How dare it. Poor little Sabeel longs for death and destruction for the Jewish State, but those bullies won’t let it have what it wants. It’s not f-a-i-r!

Dexter Van Zile has responded to the claim that Sabeel and Rev Naim Ateek “are victims of a campaign of bullying by Jewish activists“.

Sabeel and its supporters have repeatedly called for Israel to be dismantled and subsumed into a state in which Jews would be a minority. No other people, except the Jews, would be expected to embrace such a future.

…Sabeel is not a peacemaking organization, but a group that offers a false moral narrative of Arab innocence and Israeli malevolence to churches in the U.S. Sabeel's big lie is that Israel can single-handedly end the violence against it through concessions and peace offers to those vowing the destruction of the Jewish state.

Why am I reminded of Bob Dylan’s song about Israel? Neighborhood Bully".

Read it and ask yourself - who is the real bully?