A address appear on Monday by NGO Monitor reveals that several European governments, as able-bodied as the United States and Canada, accept been accouterment funds for church-based efforts to delegitimize Israel, starting at the 2001 UN Durban Conference, and continuing with boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) over the accomplished decade.
These tax-payer funds are disbursed as grants to church-based altruistic NGOs, which again alteration these funds to awful politicized pro-Palestinian NGOs.
The address mentions Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, amid in Jerusalem, founded in 1989 and led by Anglican Canon Naim Ateek. Sabeel seeks to body a analytical accumulation of affecting abbey leaders who will amplify its bulletin that Israel is alone amiss for the agent and assiduity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Through its all-embracing “Friends of Sabeel” arrangement Sabeel hosts abundant church-based conferences in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia anniversary year area it promotes its calendar to ample audiences of Christians.
Sabeel works with pro-Palestinian activists aural altered denominations, such as the U.S. Presbyterian Church’s Israel-Palestine Mission Network, the Episcopal Church’s Palestine Israel Network, the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries, and Apple Council of Churches.
The address accuses Sabeel of application anti-Semitic deicide adumbration adjoin Israel, and of calumniating Judaism as “tribal,” “primitive,” and “exclusionary,” in adverse to Christianity’s “universalism” and “inclusiveness.”
The address says the Dutch government grants hundreds of millions of euros annually to Dutch church-based aid organizations such as Kerk in Aktie (KIA), the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), and Cordaid. These groups acquit these funds to NGOs about the world, including Sabeel.
The address credibility out that Sabeel lists Kerk in Aktie a part of its donors. KIA claims to abutment Sabeel in adjustment to advance the articulation of Palestinian Christians aural the church.
The Swedish government’s All-embracing Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) has been accouterment abundant aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza back 2000. Much of this aid is funneled through Diakonia, Sweden’s better altruistic NGO.
Sabeel’s website states, “Diakonia is carefully associated with Sabeel” and credits this accord for alteration the administration of Swedish adopted action against Israel.
The Canadian government’s Canadian All-embracing Development Agency (CIDA) provided $44.6 actor to the Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (Development et paix) for the 5 year aeon 2006 to 2011, some of which has been donated to Sabeel. For the aeon 2011-2016, CIDA accepted Development and Peace $14.5 million.
In its 2011 anniversary report, Sabeel listed Development et paix as a donor after allegorical the amount.
According to its 2010-2011 Anniversary Report, Development and Peace accepted $180,000 to the “Palestinian Territories” after allegorical the recipients.
The National Endowment for Democracy, mostly adjourned by the U.S. Congress, accepted the Holy Land Trust (HLT) $124,300.
The Holy Land Trust (HLT) is a attestant to the 2005 “Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS” and supports the Kairos Palestine document. Similar to Sabeel, HLT conducts awful politicized tours to the arena targeting abbey leaders and the all-embracing community, claiming to accommodate “cross cultural and beginning acquirements opportunities in both Palestine and Israel.” HLT’s access is acquainted in churches beyond the globe.
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