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Sizer’s Demise

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Stephen Sizer is a Church of England evangelical, a member of Reform and a supporter of GAFCON. He also seems to hate Israel, a character flaw that has finally caught up with him: the Church of England has banned him from commenting on the Middle East and from using social media.

In 2009 he objected strenuously to my calling him barmy, a view of which I have yet to be disabused.

Here he is posing with his terrorist friend, Yasser Arafat:

Sizer Arafat

And here is the Bishop of Guildford attempting to repair the latest damage:

With Sizer on our side

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From here:

“With God on Our Side,” the new anti-Israel movie produced by an evangelical pastor and aimed at evangelical audiences, is touring America this month, with anti-Israel British Anglican priest Stephen Sizer in tow.  On October 27, it was originally going to be screened in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, doubtless hoping to appeal to young evangelical Congressional staffers, whose numbers and influence likely will increase in the new Congress.  Now, for whatever reason, it instead will screen at a Lutheran church on Capitol Hill.

The Evangelical Left is anxious to neutralize evangelicals as America’s typically most pro-Israel demographic, especially by focusing on the plight of Palestinian Christians, who are portrayed as victims exclusively of Israeli oppression.  “With God on Our Side,” predictably, portrays pro-Israel Christians as mindless zealots indifferent to Palestinian suffering and exploiting Israeli Jews as merely tools for precipitating the Second Coming.  Hapless quotes from Christian Zionists are contrasted with thoughtful articulations from Palestinian Christians and other pro-Palestinian advocates.

Anglican priest Stephen Sizer, prominently featured in the film, bewails Christian Zionism on his website:   “Aspects of this belief system lead some Christians in the West to give uncritical support to Israeli government policies, even those that privilege Jews at the expense of Palestinians, leading to great suffering among Muslim and Christian Palestinians alike and threatening Israel’s security as a whole.”

Rev. Stephen Sizer is upset with evangelical Christians who support Israel based on what he calls Christian Zionism, a belief that the Jews’ return to the Holy Land and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. I don’t find that idea unpersuasive; I do find Stephen Sizer’s crusade against it lacking in honesty. It seems to me that he is engaged in political agitation thinly concealed by a veil of religious sanctimony.

While Israel isn’t perfect, there are plenty of political reasons to support it, the main one being that it is an oasis of democracy in a desert of vicious tyrannies.