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‘Pulling people apart’: Renewed tension between Canadian Jewish groups, United Church sparked by Gaza

 

The war in Gaza has become a new flashpoint between Canada’s largest protestant church and Jewish groups, who say that the famously activist church is dividing Canadians with its “unhealthy obsession with Israel and Jews.”

In recent months, the church has made a number of statements vociferously opposing Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, launched in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attacks.

I never think about the United Church. Ever.

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