Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Bishop listed in worst anti-Semitic acts of 2018

From Premier-

A speech by an Anglican Bishop from Massachusetts has been named in the worst global anti-Semitic acts of 2018.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center listed Bishop Gayle Harris at number eight claiming she fabricated Israeli atrocities.

It said: "During a speech in Massachusetts last July, Bishop Gayle Harris reported that she witnessed an Israeli soldier arrest a three-year-old Arab child on the Jerusalem Temple Mount and gun down a 15-year-old Palestinian teen in the back.

"After the Simon Wiesenthal Center exposed the claims as fabrications, Harris, the #2 Episcopal clergy in the state, backtracked, saying that she had only heard the stories from a third party (a Palestinian). 'The fault is solely mine,' Harris said. 'I was ill-advised to repeat the stories without verification'."

The human rights organisation claimed the fabrications "generated widespread outrage in the Jewish community".

More here-

https://www.premier.org.uk/News/World/Bishop-listed-in-worst-anti-Semitic-acts-of-2018

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