Difference between revisions of "Anglican Friends of Israel"

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Anglican Friends of Israel (formerly "Anglicans for Israel") was formed in 2005.

To resist the call for a boycott of Israel.
To support the people of Israel and to secure defensible borders for the State of Israel.
To promote bonds of fellowship and interfaith understanding between Anglicans and the Jewish people.
To recall the Church to God’s Covenant with the Jewish people and to call the Church to affirm the centrality of Israel to the Jewish faith.
To call Anglicans to repentance for the wrongs-of both word and deed- inflicted by Christians on the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.
To fight all libels against Israel and the Jewish people and their State.
To promote reconciliation and ties of friendship between the people of Israel and the righteous Arabs who oppose terrorism and wish to have peaceful relations with Israel.
To protect the Christian communities threatened by Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
To bring the Church back to an understanding of the Jewish roots of our faith.

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Simon McIlwaine – Co-Director
Mark Rogers – Co-Director
Fran Waddams – Membership Director
Huw Shooter – Campaign Director
Irene Lancaster, Interfaith Advisor and Academic Liaison Officer, Medieval and Renaissance Center, Haifa University, Israel
Charles Tannock, MEP – European Parliamentary Advisor and Liaison

Revd Lisa Battye BNurs RM Dip Couns MA MTh
Rev Michael Cohen
Prof. Dennis Hale
Revd Mark K. Madeley
David Marsland, University of Buckingham
Rev Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael's Cornhill, and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange
Rev Martyn Perry
Father Jesse Smith

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 #To support the people of Israel and to secure defensible borders for the State of Israel.
 #To promote bonds of fellowship and interfaith understanding between Anglicans and the Jewish people.
-#To recall the Church to G-d’s Covenant with the Jewish people and to call the Church to affirm the centrality of Israel to the Jewish faith.
+#To recall the Church to God’s Covenant with the Jewish people and to call the Church to affirm the centrality of Israel to the Jewish faith.
 #To call Anglicans to repentance for the wrongs-of both word and deed- inflicted by Christians on the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.
 #To fight all libels against Israel and the Jewish people and their State.