‘We hear your voices’: inside the Church of England’s debate over Palestine

‘We hear your voices’: inside the Church of England’s debate over Palestine

The Church of England’s General Synod voted last week to hear a document titled Kairos Palestine II, which was co-written by Palestinian Anglican priest Father Fadi Diab and other Christian leaders from various denominations. The report calls for an urgent global Christian response to the war in Gaza and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and employs terminology including genocide, apartheid, and settler colonialism to describe Israeli action…