A Chester church has pulled out of hosting a conference on Palestine featuring talks by two controversial, anti-Jewish activists.
The two-day ‘Palestine: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow’, coordinated by Interfaith for Palestine, was due to be held at St Columba’s Church over Friday and Saturday.
But after being contacted by the North West Friends of Israel, the church decided to cancel the booking.
Gilad Atzmon, whose past statements include "Jewish ideology is driving our planet into a catastrophe" and “I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act”, was due to speak, alongside Revered Stephen Sizer, a vicar who was reprimanded for sharing material suggesting Israel carried out the 9/11 attacks.
