St John’s Parish Church in Hampshire reports:
With God on Our Side: Film showing of With God on Our Side introduced by Rev. Dr Stephen Sizer with question time to follow. A look at what Christian Zionism teaches and the real implications it has for the people of the MiddleEast. Wednesday 2nd November at 7pm in St John’s Church. For more info please contact Miranda Pinch 01962 732064 or miranda.pinch@gmail.com.
Who is Miranda Pinch?
The Jewish Chronicle revealed in May 2010:
Christian Aid has apologised “unreservedly” after it claimed Israeli settlers had sexually abused Palestinian children in Hebron. The false allegations came after Miranda Pinch, a social worker from Winchester, had travelled to the West Bank town in January to “monitor human rights abuses” as part of an accompaniment programme part-funded by the charity. The 59-year-old, who converted from Judaism to Christianity, returned from the trip and told Christian Aid that a Palestinian headmistress had made allegations of verbal abuse.
But promoting Ms Pinch’s trip, Christian Aid said the headmistress had alleged that “some of the children had been sexually abused on their way home” by Israeli settlers. Asked how the charity had come to make the claim, Ms Pinch said the organisation had “lost their notes” after she reported back to them following her trip. She said she had clearly explained that there was no evidence of physical sexual abuse.
Ms Pinch, who said she is proud of her Jewish heritage, explained: “Twice a day our role was to be there for the children. One of us stood by the checkpoint and the other by the school. The headmistress told me that on one occasion, when we were not there, a group of girls were verbally sexually harassed by soldiers and settlers. “I was not saying there were actual sexual attacks. I have got to be straight on this. I am not aware of any sexual abuse.”
Earlier this year, Ms Pinch spoke at the Portsmouth & South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign – alongside Tony Greenstein, who tried to rig a poll with York PSC chair Terry Gallogly, in order to make Jews look racist.
Stephen Sizer is a member of PSC, and recently spoke to a PSC audience in Hammersmith, entertaining various antizionist and at least one Holocaust denier.
This, as Sizer organises the international Christ at the Checkpoint conference, which he claims will bring a more moral theology to Israel/Palestine.
One of Sizer’s congregants, Tony Gratrex, helps to run the Reading Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and also thinks the Jews control the media.
This is some what’s going on, in the attempts of PSC activists to influence the Church of England. It’s hardly the way, the truth and the life.
habibi adds: this Wednesday Sizer will speak at the Reading branch of the self-styled Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
What a perfect host for the man. Prominent on the Reading PSC home page is a headline feed from “Redress”, one of the most foul internet hate publishers out there. It bursts with poison pieces from Gilad Atzmon and other antisemites.
Sizer too is quite familiar with hate publishers. Not for the first time, he has just suggested people visit the website of the Palestine Telegraph, a home for David Duke fans.
Stephen Sizer with a soulmate
