It happened outside the room. My friend forgot her jacket and we had to go back. It happened then.

Sorry I haven’t read all of these posts but I have read the article above. Maybe someone has addressed this.
I was standing by the door of the event to which you refer when you and your friend (anne was it?) left and certainly didn’t hear anyone abuse you anti semitically. In fact the only ‘abuse’ I heard were people telling you to stop heckling because they wanted to hear the speaker.

the Nazis should have finished the job

In my opinion, those words are an implicit threat of violence and an explicit violation of legislation against instigating race hatred.If the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms (or equivalent) were present, Jonathan might have demanded the arrest of the person speaking such words.

The wilingness of the Euroleft to join with and propagate Islamism’s violent hatred of Jews, makes one wonder whether Europe ever truly abandoned its nearly two-millennia-long racial and ideological (theological) hatred of Jews. I think not.

This is one of the keys to European support for the Muslim anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic stance – a hidden, perhaps unconscious wish for the Muslim world to finish the job the Europeans began. After all, if no more Jews, then no more need for European guilt.

his thesis was comparing Native American poetic accounts of dispossession with Palestinian. The latter was the important thing, the former a lense/mould through/into which to see/force it.

His pro-Palestinian Christian and Muslim ethicism/ethnicism is surely of the EI variety, yes.

That’s more or less where he is now, with a few tweaks.

Two, I suspect he comes from an Anglican Youth background. Insufficiently ethnic or Gospel enough for him. Living the Gospel is identifying with the plight of Palestinian Christians and Muslims. Fine.

He wrote a long article in the CofE journal Third Way, ostensibly about Africa, but really as background to claiming his identifying with Palestinian Christians, and, by extension, Muslims, was in nowise Christian nationalist.

The trouble is his identifying with Palestinian Christians and Muslims has led him in nowise to recognising any justice or right in Zionism or Jewish claims to the land. Which I think, from a Christian view, extremely problematical. It looks a lot like he equates the Gospel with Anti-Zionism.

That is why, I think, his pro-Palestinian Christian ethicism is deficient and actually becomes a kind of ethnicism i.e. nationalism.

Again, I don’t have problem with pro-Palestinian Christian (and by extension, Muslim) nationalism. The problem is when one holds that view to mutually exclude, at some fundamental level, the legitimacy of Jewish.

That view, I think, extremely problematical from a Christian view.

But Ben is hoping to sway the Anglican church into anti-Zionism, I think, in no small part by this book, which looks like it is partly aimed at a youth market (a “beginners guide”, hip, trendy) which looks like a kind of

Anti-Zionist Gospel according to Ben White.

I think this is for him in what Evangelism consists (for he is an Evangelical, I believe). But, like I said, precluding any fundamental justice to Zionism is, I think, from a Christian view, problematical.

zkharyia, obviously BW doesn’t want to be too explicit about the 1state solution. However, the text you quote from his book shows that he regards the establishment of Israel as illegitimate, i.e. as an “injustice” done to the Palestinians, and he demands that they will get “justice”… Moreover, he has very clearly condemned all negotiations, starting from Oslo, as futile, because in his view, they can not produce results that would reflect Palestinian aspirations to “justice”. I think all in all, it’s clear enough for what he stands.