Meeting in Würzburg last month, the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) passed the resolution, “Humanitarian aid for people in the Middle East”. Coming after approximately 400 days of what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled is a plausible genocide in Gaza, the resolution underscores the church’s continued failure to address the urgent needs of a region marked by prolonged settler colonial occupation, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.
The EKD’s call for compassion and humanitarian aid is commendable. But the resolution fails to address the root causes of what it describes as “the suffering of people in the Middle East.” …..more
