When it comes to attacking Israel's legitimacy, the Mennonite Central Committee hits way above its weight class. The MCC bills itself as a relief development and peace agency for adherents of the Anabaptist tradition, and is supported by North American churches and congregations totaling only 150,000 members, but its output of anti-Israel propaganda exceeds the volume of disinformation produced by much larger church groups.

For example, at the height of the Second Intifada, the MCC produced three videos - more than an hour's worth of imagery and sound - devoted to the Middle East, all of which portrayed Israel as the primary source of suffering in the region.

Meanwhile the MCC has produced no videos whatsoever about violence in Central Africa which has killed several million. Apparently, for MCC , the deaths of a few thousand inhabitants of the Middle East is worthy of more attention than the deaths of several million black Africans. This disparity cannot be blamed on the MCC's ignorance about African violence. According to MCC's annual reports, the organization has just over 50 volunteers in the Middle East, and three times that many in Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, the scene of extensive bloodshed.

What really sets the MCC apart from other American church organizations is its avowedly anti-Zionist agenda. While most church groups in the United States offer pro-forma acknowledgements of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, activists and writers affiliated with the MCC explicitly deny the right of the Jewish people to a sovereign homeland. In the minds of these MCC representatives, the force used to defend Jewish sovereignty - and not the violence used to undermine it - is the primary cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict...