The Council of Bishops of the American Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a number one church amongst African Individuals, issued a rare assertion Thursday accusing Israel of “mass genocide,” exacerbating a rift between black Individuals and Jews.
The assertion reads, partly:
Israel has trapped 1.6 million determined Palestinians within the southern Gaza metropolis known as Rafah. Most of them are girls and kids. They’ve denied them entry to meals, water, shelter, and well being care. After this torture, they plan to homicide them. The US of America can have probably paid for the weapons they use. This should not be allowed to occur.
The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church calls on the USA Authorities to instantly withdraw all funding and different assist from Israel. Since 1954, Israel has proven a willful disregard for the human dignity of Palestinians. Since October 7, 2023, in retaliation for the brutal homicide of 1139 Israeli residents by Hamas, Israel has murdered over 28,000 Palestinians, principally girls and kids. The US is supporting this mass genocide. This
should not be allowed to proceed.There have to be a direct and everlasting ceasefire between these two communities.
The assertion additionally refers to Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew” — reflecting the false declare of Palestinian nationalists that Jesus recognized as “Palestinian.” The time period “Palestine” was not used till a century later, after a failed revolt by Jews in opposition to Romans.
Israel is a multiracial society, one wherein non-European Israelis are within the majority. Israel additionally rescued the Ethiopian Jewish neighborhood from famine and oppression, marking the primary time in historical past wherein black folks had been introduced en masse out of Africa, however to freedom and to not slavery. As we speak, black Israelis serve — and fall — alongside Israelis of each different shade, and of each different religion, in a struggle to save lots of their nation from the genocidal goals of the Palestinian Hamas terrorists that attacked them.
The assertion by the AME Church will pour salt on the injuries of October 7 for a lot of Jews — and re-open previous wounds within the black-Jewish relationship. Many Jews participated within the civil rights struggles of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, however had been alienated by the racial nationalism adopted by some black leaders within the years that adopted. In 2020, many Jews and Jewish organizations supported the Black Lives Matter motion, solely to be betrayed when that motion supported Palestinians in opposition to Israel.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Giant at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the writer of the current ebook, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and the way to be a part of it),” now out there on Audible. He’s additionally the writer of the e-book, Neither Free nor Honest: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Observe him on Twitter at @joelpollak.