Here is more regarding Stephen Sizer, one of the organisers of the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Bethlehem next year. This is yet more evidence that Messianic Jews should have nothing to do with it or him.
The RichardMillett’s Blog reports one yet another anti-Israel hate-fest that Sizer is happy to associate himself with and speak at.
…I now have to write about yet another sick anti-Israel public meeting in London that took place last Thursday at the Rivercourt Methodist Church, King Street, Hammersmith.
The event was called Jerusalem Under Threat and was held by the West London Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Due to speak were Reverend Stephen Sizer, Arthur Goodman (Jews for Justice for Palestinians), Linda Ramsden (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) and Daud Abdullah (Middle East Monitor). Ghada Karmi couldn’t make it but instead we were subjected to a talk by an Anarchist Against the Wall.
…. Stephen Sizer was proficient at marketing his book Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?, there being a leaflet on every seat. He was quick to tell us that Christians have lived in Jerusalem for 2000 years and in peace with their Christian and Jewish neighbours and that only recently have tensions grown. He said that since 1948 there has been a massive reduction of Christians in the West Bank and Israel. Not surprisingly he blamed Israel for this and referred to “the apartheid wall” as “segregation based on race”.
He quoted passages from the bible that he believes supports a “one state solution”, which was all lapped up in silence by his hypocritical audience who would have yelled derision at someone had that person quoted the many biblical passages that support the Jewish people’s right to Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.
He said that church leaders refuse to speak out about Israel’s crimes because of “guilt for the Holocaust and fear of anti-Semitism” and that churches which side with “the occupation” and Zionism have “repudiated Jesus, have repudiated the bible and are an abomination”
Read the rest of the blog post here
It so dpressing isn’t it, and the worst part is that it’s hosted in a Church; giving it Christian legitimacy. I hope Calvin Smith tears Sizer a new backside in their forthcoming debate.
Yes, sadly I am no longer surprised at the charade. I’m sure Calvin Smith will be more of a challenge to Sizer than the others he has agreed to debate.
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Other Methodist’s are not happy with this meeting and the association with anti-Semitism that it is giving to their denomination. If only certain Messianic Jews who have elected to accept the invitation to Christ at the Checkpoint had a similar pang of conscience. http://methodistpreacher.blogspot.com/2011/10/anti-semitism-opnely-expressed-at.html
Rev Sizer is a kind of chameleon.
He is now a member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign and knows they advocate a one-state solution, so he is once again playing that card even though he is fully aware that ba one-state solution will be the end of Israel.
He also knew that at the meeting last Thursday he was among people who charge Israel with laying a Holocaust guilt trip on their enemies, so he whipped that particular rabbit out of his hat too.
In Malaysia, he knew the President was a ‘Jews-rule-the-world conspiracy theorist’ so he knew he could get away with saying that all US politicians are in the pay of Israel.
Rev Sizer has that easy-to-achieve knack of saying all the things that all the wrong people want to hear.
Yes, totally unstable and untrustworthy.
He might have pick that chameleon trick up when he met with Arafat!
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Here is Sizer speaking to everyone in a language different to the one he used at the PSC meeting
http://stephensizer.blogspot.com/2011/10/christ-at-checkpoint-2012-seven.html
He is using the Messianic Jew card already (item 6) and it seems that our criticism of CaTC have forced them to come up with these seven clarifications:
“We trust these seven affirmations help clarify the views of the conference organizers”
There is an attempt to stifle Messianic Jewish dissent against CaTC and those Messianic Jewish scholars who attend and claim to represent the whole Messianic Movement, which they certainly do not. The thing that hinders fellowship is Sizer and his continual Israel hate-mongering with a growing list of non-Christian anti-Semites and terror supporters.
CaTC – Affirmation #6: Messianic Jews
Messianic Jews are the brothers and sisters of all who follow Jesus or Yeshua. We are one family bound together in a fellowship of love. Although diversity in political opinions as well as theological emphasis inevitably exist, we refuse to allow these views to hinder our fellowship in Jesus.