Enemies of Israel?
Sarah Lawson asks: is it still propaganda if it’s true?
In April 2011 when Meeting for Sufferings endorsed a boycott of goods from the Israeli districts in the disputed territories, I was horrified at such a misguided and illiberal public statement. I hated being associated with it. My choice was either to resign my membership of forty-two years or to try to represent a differing approach to the matter. I decided to start Quaker Friends of Israel (QFI) to see if others shared my distress at the direction ‘we’ had taken.
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