The Churches happily support Hamas in their current propaganda pretence that Gaza is under siege and has its electricity supply cut off by Israel, in punishment for a few ‘home-made’ (like cakes or toffee) missiles.

Here is a spotlight shone on the lies.

Similar headlines appear in many media outlets. You could be forgiven for thinking that Israel has cut off the entire electricity supply to the Gaza Strip.

Despite ongoing Qassam attacks from the territory, Israel has not switched off the electricity. In fact, Hamas itself shut down Gaza's only power station after inviting the media to watch it do so.

And here are Church leaders, eager to believe anything they are told by the Palestinian version of Goebbels.

This particular message, from the Archbishop of Liverpool, is rather revealing. Whose lives count for something and whose do not? See if you can guess.

'Both Bishop William Kenney, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, and I have just returned from a visit to the Holy Land. It was very clear that there can be no secure justice and peace for the peoples of this land which leaves out Gaza. Together with the Churches of the Holy Land we will never be silent in the face of violence. To violence is now added the undermining of life, especially for the most vulnerable in Gaza, by the closure of access for aid and restrictions to the supply of energy. We may not remain silent and must call on everyone to place at the centre of every decision the needs of children and all those who are most vulnerable. You are and your people are very much in our prayers at this time.'

Never silent in the face of violence? How many Episcopal protests did we hear against the violence of Palestinian terrorists during frequent massacres of Jews, before the 'wall' was built? How many protests against the on-going and relentless violence of Hamas missiles raining down on civilians? They were very quiet in the face of violence against an innocent young Ecuadorian man (perhaps Catholic? They don’t know. They don’t care) shot in the back by Palestinians.

We may not remain silent and must call on everyone to place at the centre of every decision the needs of children and all those who are most vulnerable.

But not the needs of Israeli children, victims of those ‘home-made’ missiles.

Most human rights groups ignore the cruel and cowardly murder of young Carlos Chavez, from Ecuador, who was shot in the back by Palestinians. The only exception is B’tselem.

B’tselem (an Israeli human rights NGO) condemned the murder of Carlos Andrés Muscara Chávez, a 21 year old Kibbutz volunteer and visitor to Israel from Ecuador. He was killed by a Palestinian sniper as he worked in a potato field. Condemnation for this senseless and deliberate murder should be heard from many human rights organisations. Why is B’tselem practically alone in bringing attention to this tragedy which they describe as a “grave breach international humanitarian law and a war crime”?

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Today's victim was a righteous victim. He was murdered while planting potato seeds on a communal farm insider Israel. Carlos Chavez was not a reactionary imperialist warmonger illegal settler messianic fanatic - just a man growing food in a communal farm. For whatever reasons, he was planting potato seeds, not seeds of hatred.

There is silence among Church human rights groups, so quick to speak up in defence of terrorists and protest Israel’s attempts to protect itself. It is possible that this young man, from Ecuador, is a Catholic or perhaps an Evangelical Christian – but Churches would rather speak up for his murderers and those who support them. These are the mostly Muslim Palestinians, who also oppress their Christian neighbours, about which Church 'human rights' organisations are also silent.

Dr Irene Lancaster's blog is always worth reading, but don't miss her latest posting. It is the start of a series examining UK Church attitudes to Israel (and therefore Jews, whatever the claim that opinions of the Jewish State are somehow detached from Jewish people).

She starts with the Church Times:

I first started reading the Church Times, together with seven other papers - ranging from Methodist to Catholic - at the request of the Manchester Jewish community. It was felt that someone with a background in theology might best be able to assess the effect on the Jewish community of the stream of invective streaming weekly from most of these papers. And if it wasn't Judaism per se, it was bound to be Israel.

The worst offender of the eight - alarmingly so - was the Church Times. It was dubbed 'the Guardian/Independent at prayer'. One of the paper's most prominent contributors is also Associate Editor of the Independent, as well as being the husband of the BBC's head of radio religious broadcasting. I had glimpsed this personage once on a visit to the BBC studios in Manchester, and would not like to have crossed her on a dark night - no, not at all!!

When I first understood clearly that anti-Semitism still existed in the Church, often wearing the mask of anti-Zionism, I recall that some articles in the Church Times at the time illustrated this particularly well.

What's that, by the way? Links between the Church Times, Independent and BBC? If these organisations were Jewish, people would suspect a cunning Zionist plot! As it is, given their heavy anti-Jewish-State bias, feel free to suspect pursuit of a different and very unpleasant agenda, if you are so inclined! But then, unlike 'anti-Zionists', perhaps you are too sensible for conspiracy theories.