Edgbaston Returns - Christians for Moses Ministries

Posted in Finkelstein, Zionism, Antisemitism, Palestine, Truth on July 10th, 2007

This (below) is part of an ongoing “document”. I’m not sure how to best characterize it. Perhaps bizarre, in the sense of grotesque with absurd to help round out what I’m getting at. At another level, however, it is deadly serious. Christian Zionists ought to be taken seriously. Why? In a sentence: Christian Zionist’s defile the meaning of Christ. So what? So does most of Western culture right? Yes. But most of Western culture does not defile the meaning of Christ in Christ’s name. Until I can imagine Jesus Christ acting and advocating as these Christian Zionists have acted here, their meaning for me will be decidely anti-Christ. What they propose under the banner of a universal humanist is inhuman: They appear to advocate for nothing less than the continuance of heinous atrocities in Palestine under the ideological phatasm of a “Christian”-based defense of the Jewish right to total hegemony over all of Palestine. Take that seriously. Take Christian Zionist’s seriously. Their ideological commitment is not to love but destruction, not to humanism but racism, not to justice but injustice, not to truth but to lies.

That’s my view on the matter. You?

At any rate, Charles Edgbaston, chairman of the Christians for Moses Ministries apparently has a news release. In it the Christians for Moses Ministries wish to take their fair share of credit for orchestrating Norman G. Finkelstein’s failed tenure bid. They appear to take credit for disseminating false propaganda against Finkelstein. Of course, they regard the false propaganda as true. Charles Edgbaston emailed it to me and I’ve included it below exactly as received. I am even mentioned in this news release. Me. As is this blog.

Here are the relevant links at this blog. Give them - and especially all the comments - a read.

Who is Dr. Charles Edgbaston?

Scrutinizing Finkelstein

Getting Called a Vicious Anti-Semite

Three Anti-Semites? Hating Norman Finkelstein - Comments

What is all this? How does it bear on Israel in Palestine? It seems so far removed from those realities and yet all these battles over the truth of matters - and no one should doubt that the Christian Zionist’s believe they’ve got the truth under a barrel - all these battles are basic to the terrain of discerning the facts from fiction in Palestine.

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