Why I think General Synod of the Church of England was deeply mistaken to vote in favour of Kairos II Palestine @mishtal@nicolelampert@chiefrabbi
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humanitarian workers had to halt activity on Saturday after armed Hamas terrorists entered a food distribution point and assaulted two truck drivers in a World Food Program warehouse.
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It is shameful that the Church of England General Synod has recommended engagement with Kairos II.
This is a document full of falsehood, which openly rejects dialogue, uses extreme rhetoric to challenge the very existence of Israel and objects to existing peace agreements in the region.
Though it poses as a route to understanding, Kairos II in fact functions as an egregious barrier to it, reducing one of the world's most complex conflicts to a single, warped narrative, which can only harm the cause of peace.
This is a sad day for Jewish-Christian relations.
@Synod you’ve got this totally wrong. On the day that the Government has proscribed the IRGC and its involvement in attacks on the Jewish Community, you’ve now added more fuel to the fire. Kairos Palestine is politically motivated, shame on you all, disgusted !
Israel strongly condemns the shameful decision of the Church of England @Synod to grant legitimacy to the extremist Kairos Palestine document. This hateful document undermines the right of the world's only Jewish state to exist, and seeks to justify the atrocities of October 7 by blaming Israel for causing it.
Even more disturbingly, it urges churches to boycott dialogue with “Zionist voices,” in practice excluding the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community in the UK from Christian-Jewish engagement unless they renounce Jewish self-determination.
The irony is striking. The Church of England has itself adopted the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, including all of its examples without qualification. So by the Church’s own standard, its decision to delegitimize Jewish self-determination falls under the definition of antisemitism.
At a time of unprecedented hatred against Jews, and after centuries in which Christian institutions contributed to the persecution of Jews, the Church had a special responsibility to exercise moral clarity. Instead, it has chosen to reward extremism, damage Christian-Jewish relations, and bring profound shame upon the Church of England.
And on a personal note:
The Church of England had an opportunity to promote understanding by engaging the full diversity of Christian voices from the Holy Land. It did not. I say this as an Arab Christian whose family has lived in this land for centuries.
Instead, the Church opted to elevate one of the most radical and divisive theological and political manifestos produced in recent years. The consequences of that decision will echo far beyond the walls of the General Synod.
Extraordinary details about the Mossad’s plan to crown former Iranian president Ahmadinejad, who is currently under house arrest by the Revolutionary Guards:
According to an investigation by The New York Times, former Mossad chief David Barnea personally traveled to Budapest in 2024 to meet Ahmadinejad face-to-face.
This was part of a covert operation that Israel had conducted for years in an effort to cultivate Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset and a potential candidate to lead Iran after the fall of the current regime.
According to American sources, in recent years Israel secretly paid for Ahmadinejad’s housing and travels, and Mossad operatives met him on several occasions outside Iran, including during his visits to Budapest.
The report further details that Ahmadinejad himself underwent a major transformation after completing his term. He moderated his positions, toned down the anti-Israeli rhetoric that once characterized him, and began presenting himself as a more moderate figure. He gave interviews criticizing Iran’s security forces and government corruption, became involved in cultural issues, changed his style of dress, and began learning English.
@AndyMcDonaldMP This is just pandering to the Muslim vote and the Green Party . How about concentrating on U.K. politics because this country is in a mess with huge problems and a near breakdown of all services. Get your own house in order first @andyburnham that’s what you’re paid to do! .
@ZackPolanski Have you visited the Nova Exhibition in London Zack? If not I suggest you do urgently. You do realise that Hamas monsters wouldn’t have spared you had you been at the real Nova rave. Just clearing that up for you because one day your party will turn on you - remember that!
@andyburnham Israel is only one stopping the radical Islamists from taking over the West. All of Gaza has been radicalised by Hamas, the sooner you get your head round that the better and Iran is huge problem. So sort out the U.K. because you don’t understand what’s happening in the ME.
The situation in Gaza is desperate. Today the UK is announcing £23m for @UNRWA to deliver vital support including food, water, education and medical support for Palestinian refugees.
There must be more aid, all crossings opened, and humanitarian agencies able to operate safely.
@IsraelinUK Yet @YvetteCooperMP has just given another 23 million of #British tax payers money to UNRWA. How does it feel like to be on the side of terrorism? @YvetteCooperMP Get yourself to the Nova Exhibition this weekend, it’s not too late! You need to see the evil that UNRWA is doing!
@mallen20243@piersmorgan 100% this. Have you visited the Nova Festival Exhibition in London Piers, not too late, you can go this week , then maybe you might understand a bit more
Exposing Hamas’s Use of a Primary Gaza Hospital for Repression: Hamas’s intelligence and internal security services are in full fascist mode across the Gaza Strip, beating, interrogating, and threatening anyone they suspect may join the June 26 protests against their rule. A few friends of mine in Gaza City have already been summoned. They were told explicitly by al‑Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protestors, they will be executed under “revolutionary conditions” and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death.
And where were some of my friends interrogated, threatened, and placed on house arrest? Inside Al‑Ahli Arab Hospital or the Ma'amadani/Baptist Hospital in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Yes, the same hospital that grabbed global headlines early in the war after a faulty Islamic Jihad rocket fell and caused an explosion, which killed hundreds of people. That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.
This is criminal on every level. And it raises a basic question: if overwhelming, well‑corroborated evidence shows Hamas using Gaza’s medical facilities to hide among civilians and enforce its armed rule, violating the October 2025 ceasefire, why have the UN and international medical and humanitarian NGOs and charities remained silent? Why has no one suspended operations until Hamas withdraws from the hospitals they support?
I want every follower and every official who sees this to contact and tag the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNRWA, the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and any organization supplying Gaza’s hospitals. Demand that they confront Hamas’s presence in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital/ Ma'amadani / Baptist Hospital and every facility they fund, staff, and sustain. Even though the Episcopal Church/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem manages Al‑Ahli, every medical facility in Gaza depends on international aid, equipment, and expertise, during the war and even more so since the ceasefire.
It is time to get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals. It is time to support Gazans risking their lives to protest the Islamist fascists who have destroyed their society for twenty years. And it is time for the international community to finally recognize that Hamas cannot be trusted to uphold any agreement. The group is committed to a last‑stand ideology – much like Hitler in his bunker – regardless of how many civilians in Gaza suffer or die as a result.
Exposing Hamas’s Use of a Primary Gaza Hospital for Repression: Hamas’s intelligence and internal security services are in full fascist mode across the Gaza Strip, beating, interrogating, and threatening anyone they suspect may join the June 26 protests against their rule. A few friends of mine in Gaza City have already been summoned. They were told explicitly by al‑Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protestors, they will be executed under “revolutionary conditions” and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death.
And where were some of my friends interrogated, threatened, and placed on house arrest? Inside Al‑Ahli Arab Hospital or the Ma'amadani/Baptist Hospital in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Yes, the same hospital that grabbed global headlines early in the war after a faulty Islamic Jihad rocket fell and caused an explosion, which killed hundreds of people. That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.
This is criminal on every level. And it raises a basic question: if overwhelming, well‑corroborated evidence shows Hamas using Gaza’s medical facilities to hide among civilians and enforce its armed rule, violating the October 2025 ceasefire, why have the UN and international medical and humanitarian NGOs and charities remained silent? Why has no one suspended operations until Hamas withdraws from the hospitals they support?
I want every follower and every official who sees this to contact and tag the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNRWA, the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and any organization supplying Gaza’s hospitals. Demand that they confront Hamas’s presence in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital/ Ma'amadani / Baptist Hospital and every facility they fund, staff, and sustain. Even though the Episcopal Church/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem manages Al‑Ahli, every medical facility in Gaza depends on international aid, equipment, and expertise, during the war and even more so since the ceasefire.
It is time to get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals. It is time to support Gazans risking their lives to protest the Islamist fascists who have destroyed their society for twenty years. And it is time for the international community to finally recognize that Hamas cannot be trusted to uphold any agreement. The group is committed to a last‑stand ideology – much like Hitler in his bunker – regardless of how many civilians in Gaza suffer or die as a result.
@HillelNeuer@EnLiEretzAheret Such courage from Ilana, Reem Al- Salem is a monster, just like Hamas are monster. I pray that Ilana eventually heals from her suffering .
Watch closely new video showing the U.N. reaction: as courageous former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky confronts October 7th denier Reem al-Salem—by recounting the horrific abuse she suffered from Hamas—the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women sits there stone-faced. No empathy.
Four IDF soldiers were killed overnight in a Hezbollah attack in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tebnit, and five soldiers were wounded there hours later, the military said Friday.
Lebanon’s health ministry, meanwhile, reported at least 18 people killed by Israeli strikes. The tally does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
The violence was the latest in deadly clashes between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group that have continued in Lebanon since the US and Iran this week reached a memorandum of understanding that committed them and their allies to halt hostilities in the country.
Read more: https://t.co/QeComCJOsW
Over the last 48 hours of “ceasefire” Hezbollah has attacked Israel 72 times, including:
• 25 assaults
• 63 rockets
• 1 missile
• 7 UAV strikes
• 2 IED explosions
• 1 infiltration of 5 terrorists
Now Iran cancels peace talks because Israel responded.
See the game here?
To Trump: In the Middle East, loyalty is currency. If you abandon your closest friend halfway through a fight and cut deals behind their back while leaving them exposed, don't expect anyone to trust your guarantees again. You told the world, "The U.S. and Israel carried out an operation against Iran," then walked away and left your ally standing alone.
In the Middle East, we don't judge friends by speeches; we judge them by who stays when the missiles fly. A person who abandons an ally halfway and cuts deals behind their back is not someone you call in a crisis.
You will say it's about American interests. Fine. But others also have interests, and they have memories. You can call it "America's interests." We call it something else: leaving your friends in the storm.
Before asking, "Why don't they defend themselves?" remember that countries like Israel did and are still doing so alone.
And also remember that the UAE defended itself, struck back forcefully, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of your countries in the West did neither.
The lesson is simple. If you can leave your closest friend exposed today, why should anyone trust your promises tomorrow? Maybe it's time for the Middle East to start thinking about alternatives.
And yes, when Iran strikes again, don't assume the Middle East will dial Washington. People don't call someone who might leak information to Turkey or cut a deal with Tehran while their friends are still under fire.
Today, Trump and JD Vance lost the trust of 8.3 billion people on Earth and gained the respect of just one man: the Supreme Leader of the Islamic regime in Iran. Quite the trade.
@uricohenisrael No - it’s just bonkers rebuilding Iran whilst the IRGC are there. This is what happens when a western mind negotiates with a MiddleEastern one! You’ve messed up @SEPeaceMissions@jaredkushner and the world is now less safe and you’re really fucked the Iranian people and Israel!