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Article: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA RESOLUTIONS INSULT TO GRASSROOTS CANADIAN JEWS
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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B'nai Brith Canada, the voice of the grassroots Canadian Jewish
community, was disappointed to learn that resolutions that enable
United Church Conferences, Presbyteries, congregations, and
communityministries to boycott the Jewish State of Israel, if they
so choose, wereunanimously passed at the United Church of Canada's
(UCC) 40th General Council. At the same time, the UCC passed
resolutions that can best be described as advocating for the ethnic
cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria. B'nai Brith Canada was
accorded preferred guest status by the UCC and monitored the
proceedings in British Columbia. "It is with great sadness that the
Jewish community has learned that themoral stance in ...