Saturday, November 10, 2007
Janet Lahr Lewis; traveling voice of the United Methodist Church and Sabeel. An important profile by Adam Holland: Anti-Israel propagandist touring US churches
Janet Lahr Lewis is a professional anti-Israel activist who worked for Sabeel's main office in Jerusalem for 10 years and served as the executive director of Friends of Sabeel for two years, in which position she runs their international outreach operations. She has also achieved a level of prominence within the United Methodist Church, which is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. Her UMC profile lists her as the UMC "liaison between ecumenical groups and Israel and Palestine"... Janet is the main contact for ... United Methodist visitors who wish to follow the recommendation of the General Conference to spend a significant amount of time in the area with (Israeli and Palestinian) Christians." In other words, the United Methodist Church has installed a strident anti-Israel activist as their primary contact person for groups wishing to conduct fact-finding tours of Israel and the Palestinian territories under church aegis...