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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The United Church angers Canadian rabbis with its new proposed Mideast policy
Description: Six organizations representing Canadians rabbis across the country issued a strong statement condemning the United Church of Canada for its new proposal to adopt a harder stance against Israel.
The 23-page document, which took two years to draft, supports teaching about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and labels Israel and Palestine with the same settler-colonial framework applied to Indigenous Canadians and early British settlers. Plus, the church wants to not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
While this isn't the first time the United Church has upset Canadian Jewish leaders, it still caused outrage...