United Church of Canada (UCC)
The United Church of Canada is active in promoting BDS campaigns and is the Canadian sending organization for EAPPI.
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DanChurchAid
According to its website, “DanChurchAid is rooted in the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church.” Aims to conduct “humanitarian aid and development assistance in close cooperation with churches and other cooperative partners.”
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Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center
Sabeel applies “liberation theology,” claims that Palestinians represent a modern-day version of Jesus’ suffering. This includes deicide imagery, and supercessionist rhetoric used to demonize Israel and Judaism.
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Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ)
ARIJ is among the leaders of the political warfare against Israel, seeking to further boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS), false accusations of Israeli “apartheid” and “racism,” and support for a Palestinian “right of return”, which is inconsistent with two-state solution.
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Bread for the World- EED
Brot für die Welt-Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (BfW-EED) is the official aid framework of the Protestant Church in Germany.
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Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) (formerly Christian Peacemaker Teams)
Founded by a coalition of church groups, CPT supports BDS (boycotts, divestments, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel and makes false accusations of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “colonization.”
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Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition of 27 national church denominations and organizations that “engages in directly [sic] advocacy and education with the U.S. Congress. The CMEP board and staff communicate with Senate and House offices on a regular basis to further the policy positions of the CMEP coalition.”
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Church of Sweden
Church of Sweden is an Evangelical-Lutheran community that promotes settlement goods labeling and supports the “World Week of Peace in Palestine Israel,” organized by the World Council of Churches, which calls for “advocacy and action in support of an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.”
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