Leading Zionist groups and figures in the UK have come out in force to suppress discussion within the Church of England over a report by Palestinian Christian groups about genocide in Gaza.
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, who has a son serving in the Israeli army, has warned the Church of England’s General Synod that it risks damaging Christian-Jewish relations if it proceeds with a motion encouraging engagement with A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, a document published by Kairos Palestine, also known as Kairos II.
The General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, is due to consider the motion at its annual gathering in York. The motion does not ask the Church to endorse the document, but to receive and engage with it as part of its understanding of Palestinian Christian experience amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Kairos II was issued by Kairos Palestine – The Palestinian Christian Initiative on 14 November, 2025. The document says Palestinian Christians gathered “after prayer and reflection on the suffering of our people under occupation” and now declare: “We live now in a time of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement unfolding before the eyes of the world.”
