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Accuse Church

Sydney, Australia (JTA) —
Australian Jewry has accus-
ed Australia's third-largest
church of distributing in-
flammatory anti-Israel pro-.
paganda and is demanding
that it be retracted.
A four-page pamphlet
about the Middle East con-
flict, which the Uniting
Church sent to schools,
churches and individual
members, has been assailed
for portraying Israel in the
worst possible light.
The document has severely
damaged Jewish relations
with the church and seemed
"almost deliberately aimed"
at that result, the Executive
Council of Australian Jewry
has charged. _
The church, founded in
1977 from a union of
Methodist, Presbyterian and
Congregational churches,
claims 400,000 active mem-
bers and double that number
of followers across the coun-
try.
The president of the Ex-
ecutive Council of
Australian Jewry, Leslie
Caplan, handed a seven-
page list of errors of fact,
omission and distortion con-
tained in the pamphlet to
the head of the church, Dr.
D'Arcy Wood at a recent
meeting in Canberra.
Examples, he said, were
the pamphlet's claims that
Israel rejected the 1947
United Nations partition
plan for Palestine, which
even the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization does not
claim and that Israel is
persecuting and denigrating
Islam and Christianity.
Callers to the Uniting
Church reportedly were told
that the information in the
pamphlet was approved by
the PLO.
Mr. Wood said he was
"very sorry the document
caused offense," but would
not respond to the criticism
of the Jewish community
until he held discussions
with his colleagues.
The Council of Christians
and Jews has lodged protests
with the church and
demanded that the pamphlet
be withdrawn or revised.
Rabbi John Levi of Temple
Beth Israel in Melbourne,
who is active in the Chris-
tian-Jewish dialogue, wrote
to the moderator of the
Uniting Church in Victoria
State, saying, "Despite the
crocodile tears about the
Holocaust, your publication
must take its place in the not
inconsiderable list of
Australian anti-Jewish let-
ters, cartoons and books."

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