The American Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) Council of Bishops, an influential church among African Americans, on Thursday accused Israel of “genocide,” an unusual move that exacerbates the rift between black Americans and Jews. issued a statement.
of statement It is written in part:
Israel has trapped 1.6 million desperate Palestinians in a city in southern Gaza called Rafah. Most of them are women and children. They denied them access to food, water, shelter, and medical care. After this torture they plan to murder them. The United States likely paid for the weapons used. This must not be allowed to happen.
The African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops calls on the U.S. government to immediately withdraw funding and other support from Israel. Since 1954, Israel has deliberately ignored the human dignity of the Palestinian people. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 28,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in retaliation for the brutal killing of 1,139 Israeli citizens by Hamas. The US supports this genocide.this
It must not be allowed to continue.There must be an immediate and permanent ceasefire between these two communities.
The statement also refers to Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew,” reflecting the false claim of Palestinian nationalists who identified Jesus as a “Palestinian.” The word “Palestine” not used until a century laterafter a failed revolt by the Jews against the Romans.
Israel is a multi-ethnic society, with non-European Israelis making up the majority. Israel also rescued the Jewish community of Ethiopia from starvation and oppression, making it the first time in history that black people were brought there. all at once Get out of Africa and into freedom, not slavery. Today, black Israelis, along with other Israelis of all colors and creeds, engage and fall in the fight to save their homeland from the genocidal aims of the Palestinian Hamas terrorists who attacked Palestine.
The AME Church’s statement will pour salt into the wounds of October 7th for many Jews and reopen old wounds in black-Jewish relations. Many Jews participated in his 1950s and his 1960s civil rights movements, but were alienated by the racial nationalism embraced by some black leaders in the years that followed. In 2020, many Jews and Jewish organizations supported the Black Lives Matter movement only to be betrayed by the movement’s support of Palestinians against Israel.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He is the author of the recent book, The Zionist Conspiracy (And How to Participate in It), now available on Audible. He is also the author of an e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
