Archbishop apologizes for divestment: JP 2.11.06 February 11, 2006
Posted by geoconger in Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England, Israel, Jerusalem Post.trackback
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written to British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to apologize for the Church of England’s vote last week to divest from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the territories. This despite the fact that Williams himself backed the anti-Israel vote.
The vote on Monday by the General Synod, the church’s parliament, to “disinvest from companies profiting from the illegal occupation,” prompted widespread opprobrium and severely tested Jewish-Christian relations in the UK.
Read it all in the Jerusalem Post.
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