The leader of the Episcopal Church at Yale University has resigned after writing a letter linking anti-Semitism in Europe to Israeli actions in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Rev. Bruce M. Shipman resigned last week as priest in charge of the church, after writing a letter to The New York Times in which he wrote, “As hope for a two-state solution fades and Palestinian casualties continue to mount, the best antidote to anti-Semitism would be for Israel’s patrons abroad to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for final-status resolution to the Palestinian question.”
Mr. Shipman told the New Haven Register that he had received “an avalanche of hate mail” over the letter, and that he thinks the response gave the church’s Board of Governors “an excuse” to force him to resign.
The church’s statement on Mr. Shipman’s resignation reads, in part: “It is our belief that the dynamics between the Board of Governors and the Priest-in-Charge occasioned the resignation of the Rev. Shipman.”
NEW HAVEN >> The priest-in-charge of the Episcopal Church at Yale, the Rev. Bruce M. Shipman, has resigned after being accused of blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Shipman had written a letter to the New York Times in response to an op-ed article, " Why Jews are Worried,” about Jewish concerns that anti-Semitism is growing in Europe.
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