B’nai B’rith calls World Council of Churches Syria response ‘deplorable’ The director of B’nai B’rith’s United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs called out the group’s vilification of Israel, stating, “Somehow, no one else—literally, no one—is censured in Rev. Pillay’s statement on the Syrian situation.” Dec. 17, 2024
Once again, Christian anti-Semitism rears its ugly head The Presbyterian Church accuses Israel of apartheid, compares it to Nazi Germany and tries to write anti-Semitism out of the dictionary. Michael Brown and Jonathan Feldstein July 19, 2022
World Council of Churches promotes Presbyterian reverend with anti-Israel bias In 2016, Rev. Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay compared Israel and the alleged “exclusionary and violent character of the Israeli Zionist project” to South Africa’s racial apartheid. June 21, 2022
World Council of Churches is wrong and does not represent the global church Unfortunately, it seems that in the West, most Christians have become caught up in the potent combination of early Christian supersessionism, historical ignorance and post-modern left-wing ideologies. Rev. Cornelis Kant and Andrew Tucker March 2, 2021
Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred South African Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic. Melanie Phillips Feb. 18, 2021
Denying their parent and embracing their assassin Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself. Melanie Phillips Feb. 13, 2020
The World Council of Churches’ Jewish fig-leaf strategy The WCC's embrace of a few Jews under the facade of dialogue, solidarity, or peace will not stop the criticism and demands for change. Gerald M. Steinberg April 16, 2019
An open letter to Dr. Tveit, head of World Council of Churches I am writing in connection to the World Council of Churches Jan. 14 response to NGO Monitor’s publication, “EAPPI: The World Council of Churches’ Training Camp for Anti-Israel Advocacy.” Gerald M. Steinberg Jan. 17, 2019
![At the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod in Cleveland in 2017, Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian and pastor of the evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, called the UCC's resolution to divest from Israel "a strong signal that [Palestinians] are not alone, and that there are churches who still dare to speak truth to power and stand with the oppressed.” Credit: United Church of Christ/Flickr.](https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2017/12/download-10-3-660x440.jpg "At the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod in Cleveland in 2017, Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian and pastor of the evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, called the UCC's resolution to divest from Israel \"a strong signal that [Palestinians] are not alone, and that there are churches who still dare to speak truth to power and stand with the oppressed.” Credit: United Church of Christ/Flickr.")
