By Daphne Anson
2 November 2017. Tick tock. Tick tock.
In the countdown to the centenary of the Balfour Declaration anti-Israel initiatives in the UK are coming thick and fast, and Christian Israel-bashers are joining in with gusto.
Our old friend Stephen Sizer, the ex-vicar of Virginia Water and now based in Southampton as CEO of the so-called Peacemaker Mediators organisation, has been very active, with Peacemaker Mediators leaving little doubt that it has Israel and Israel’s supporters centrally in its sights.
Sizer has recently been to Amersfoort in the Netherlands for the Kairos/Sabeel Conference.
It was there that he presented his analysis of Walter Bruggemann’s Chosen that he’d begun in note form while in Kigali awaiting a delayed flight to Doha, sustained by cups of refreshing African tea. (Photo above)
Should you be so inclined, you can view the analysis here
One of his allies, Robert Cohen, who’s married to an Anglican vicar (of the double X chromosome variety) and blogs against Israel at Micah’s Paradigm Shift and Pantheos, was recently in posh Cheltenham for a churchy Israel-bashing shmooze which apparently had the local Conservative MP purring:
Funny of Cohen to term organiser Symon”brave”; I’m sure there were no Israeli suicide bombers on hand to vent disapproval).
From here:
Reverting to our old friend, in whose name the Balfour Project website was (and perhps still is) rumoured to be registered, he’s been full of excitement over this. And so, evidently, has antisemite and 9/11 troofer Tony Gratrex, long associated with the Reading Palestine Solidarity Campaign:
(See more on that event, due to take place on 31 October, here)
Sizer gloats on the Peacemaker Mediators’ website:
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