The German government indirectly provides millions of dollars in funding to a Christian organization which is highly critical of Israel and which pro-Israeli groups have accused of anti-Israeli bias and actions, according to a report on Channel 2 news on Sunday.
Germany,
the report stated, helps finance the Bread for the World organization, a
Christian group that is chiefly concerned with combating world hunger,
but which is also a major contributor to the World Council of Churches.
The WCC is an ecumenical umbrella group of
hundreds of churches spread across over a hundred nations, and claims to
represent over 500 million Christians. It is also an organization that
has spoken out harshly against Israeli policy vis a vis the Palestinians
and which has come out in support of the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) policy against Israeli settlements and companies which
support Israeli settlements.
The WCC runs several programs in support of
Palestinians in the West Bank, among them the Ecumenical Accompaniment
Program in Palestine and Israel and the Palestine Israel Ecumenical
Forum.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has
called the group “hostile” to Israel, while the Anti-Defamation League
has accused it of biased, one-sided attitudes towards the Jewish state.
According to Channel 2, Germany’s indirect support for the group has totalled 10 million euros over the past two years.
A long history of Israel-baiting:
Lifted from Norway, Israel and the Jews blog (2013)
Norwegian leader of the World Council of Churches pooh-poohs persecution of Christians in the ME, obsesses about Palestinians
2008: World Council of Churches leader: the Israel/South Africa apartheid analogy again
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