“The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous,” Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, wrote in a 1941 essay titled “Churchill’s Lie Factory.”
On July 13, 2026, the Church of England endorsed two big lies that would turn Goebbels green with envy. Despite robust opposition from top Jewish leaders, including Chief Rabbi Efraim Mervis, its General Synod approved a libelous Palestinian Christian manifesto.
Published in November 2025 by the Palestinian Christian advocacy group Kairos Palestine, the Kairos II manifesto is titled A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide.
The first lie of the Anglican-endorsed manifesto is to label Israel’s war on Hamas a “genocide.” “The genocidal war on Gaza is the continuation of the Zionist project to seize all of Palestine, emptied of its Palestinian people,” the manifesto asserts. It uses the terms “genocide” and “genocidal” 30 times.
The second lie is by omission. Kairos II mentions Hamas only once in the 14-page document, and that too in a paragraph justifying the October 7 massacre as “born out of decades of injustice, oppression and displacement since the Nakba of 1948, and more than sixteen years of an immoral, suffocating blockade on Gaza.”
As if this weren’t enough, in a hand-washing gesture that would make Pontius Pilate blush, the Church of England’s parliament passed an amendment to “hear” rather than “receive” the defamatory document. A few clerics opposing the manifesto warned that Jew-hating jihadis would hardly pause to parse such verbal gymnastics. Synod’s antisemites ignored their pleas.
On that dark day, the Church of England wantonly voted to bear false witness against Israel and, dementedly, against Hamas. Why? Who benefits from Synod’s big lies? What if it is Hamas, and not Israel, who committed genocide? What if Synod engaged in Kairos II’s big lie of “genocide inversion” to cover the involvement of a section of militant Palestinian Christians who deny Israel’s right to exist, engage in anti-Israel terrorism, desire Israel’s destruction, and perhaps even took part in the October 7 massacre? What if such Christians are not merely dhimmis but collaborators with Hamas?
Synod’s vote absolves the Church of England’s hierarchy from addressing the hippopotamus in the vestry, what historian of antisemitism Robert Wistrich identifies as “eliminationist” or “genocidal antisemitism,” as a key theological element of Hamas and Islam. Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally can now cover her face with the calligraphic edition of Kairos II and pretend Hamas didn’t perpetrate the largest massacre of Jews since the Shoah. She can also continue to claim that the Israel-Arab conflict is about land, not Islamic imperialism.
How Hamas Inverted Its Own Genocide Against Israel
In a peer-reviewed article, International Law scholar Avraham Shalev argues that Hamas’ October 7 attack, combined with its statements of intent to exterminate Jews, meets the legal threshold for genocide under the Genocide Convention. He establishes both Hamas’s actus reus (physical acts of genocide) and its mens rea (genocidal intent).
“Recently captured documents demonstrate that on October 7th, Hamas believed that Israel’s destruction was a goal they could achieve,” Shalev writes. Hamas’ motivation was its intent to destroy Jews “as a distinct ethnic, racial, and national group.” Its “original charter makes it clear that the war against Israel and the Jews is an existential battle.” For example, just days after the massacre, Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said: “We must remove that country [Israel]… The Al-Aqsa Flood [October 7] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.”
Shalev emphasizes genocide inversion as “a distinctive feature of the Hamas genocide of October 7.” Hamas’ genocide of Jews is “uniquely characterized by the immediate deployment of reverse accusations against its victims.” The weaponization of genocide inversion “deflects attention from Hamas’ own genocidal actions,” hijacks the moral freight of genocide accusations to delegitimize Israel’s war on Hamas, and “inverts Jewish historical trauma by comparing Israeli actions with the Nazi genocide,” he argues.
The big lie of genocide inversion isn’t original. Hitler deployed it in the 1920s, portraying the Jews as genocidal killers, writes Wistrich in his book A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. The Führer justified the preemptive genocide of the Jews, alleging that they were the “world enemy” who were seeking Germany’s annihilation.
Muslims claim that “Israel and world Jewry are determined to extinguish Islam, so they, too, must wipe them out,” Wistrich explains. It is as if Nazism was “symbolically handing over the relay baton of genocidal antisemitism to the Arabs just as its own star began to wane.”
“The Hamas Charter and its proclamations about implementing Allah’s promise and annihilating the Jews are as genocidal in their implications,” Wistrich notes, stressing that virtually all Islamic movements share “this language of mass murder.”
Islam’s Co-option of Antisemitic Palestinian Christians
A unique feature of Kairos II is that it is composed by Christians, not Muslims. And yet, much of its language mirrors the bombast of Islamic Israel-hatred. It calls the Balfour Declaration a “historic injustice.” It vilifies Christian Zionism as a “theology of racism, colonialism, and ethnic supremacy” that “calls on a tribal, racist god of war and ethnic cleansing.” It blames Christian support for Israel for “apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of indigenous people.” It trashes the Abraham Accords. It disingenuously warns “against giving our national struggle a religious character or turning it into a religious issue that pits religions against one another.”
Echoing the jargon of antisemitic elimination, it notes that “any genuine beginning must involve dismantling settler colonialism and the apartheid system built on Jewish supremacy as codified in Israel’s racist Nation-State Law.” If the Jewish state is so evil (genocide is, after all, the “crime of crimes”), a “Final Solution” is the only solution.
And that justifies violence against the Jews. Anglican biblical scholar Ian Paul, one of the very few synod members who spoke strongly against approving Kairos II, wrote: “Historically, Palestinian Christians as a group have been deeply involved in violent terrorism as their rejection of the State of Israel, and have been deeply involved in the PLO, whose founding charter rejected the right of Israel to exist, and claimed the whole region as an Arab homeland.” Outsiders find it “hard to understand how ‘Palestinian Christians’ could be involved with anti-Israeli and antisemitic terror,” Paul writes, explaining: “In this context, the term ‘Christian’ really functions as a tribal and ethnic identifier, more than in the sense of someone who has made a personal commitment to Jesus.”
Just before the Synod vote, Archbishop Mullally went on a “pilgrimage” to Israel. She didn’t visit the martyrs’ memorial at the Nova Festival. Instead, she met Palestinian Christian activists linked to anti-Israel terrorist outfits and praised them for their “faithful resistance.”
In my news story for the Middle East Forum Observer, I reported on Mullally’s meeting with Layan Nasir at her home in Birzeit. The Archbishop described Nasir’s time in Israeli custody over the last five years as a “terrible ordeal.” She assured Nasir’s family of her prayers for the “unjustly imprisoned.”
Mullally omitted an inconvenient fact. Israeli authorities arrested Nasir for her leadership in the Democratic Progressive Student Pole at Birzeit University, the student wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), proscribed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, Japan, Canada, and Israel.
The PFLP participated in and celebrated the October 7 genocide. It reportedly held hostage Shiri Bibas and her two infant sons. NGO Monitor confirms that the PFLP is Hamas’ abiding ally in Gaza. The European Council on Foreign Relations warned that the PFLP opposes a two-state solution, calls for Israel’s destruction and wants to create Palestine using “armed struggle.” It is responsible for numerous attacks on Israelis, including airline hijackings, suicide bombings, a synagogue attack, and the assassination of Israel’s Agriculture Minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
Mullally also met Natalie Abu Diyeh, a Lutheran soccer player, arrested on suspicion of “promoting terrorist activities,” and Zeina Barbar, the daughter of Majd Barbar. The archbishop’s website labeled her a “child detainee.” Barbar, a PFLP member, served 20 years in prison. Charges against him include attempted murder and membership in a terrorist group. Barbar and his accomplices transported a car bomb to Jerusalem and manufactured grenades. Police detained Zeina, another PLFP member, on suspicion of terrorism and released her in February 2025 as part of a prisoner exchange.
The PFLP was founded by George Habash. TIME magazine christened Habash “Terrorism’s Christian Godfather.” “If you assumed that Palestinian or Arab extremism somehow sprang entirely from Islam, from the puritanical Wahhabi intolerance and so forth, take a close look at Habash’s first name. He was a Greek Orthodox Christian who sang in his church choir as a boy back in the Palestinian town of Lydda,” TIME wrote. On his death anniversary, Yusef Daher, a Christian “peacemaker,” posted a statement asking George Habash to “pray for us.”
On her “pilgrimage,” Mullally is photographed praying in Layan Nasir’s living room with the portrait of Layan’s great-uncle Kamal Nasser behind her. Nasser played a key role in the Black September kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Another photograph shows Mullally meeting Greek Orthodox Archbishop Benedictus. On the wall is a portrait of Yasser Arafat. “Our archbishop has managed to be photographed in front of, not one, but two notorious terrorist leaders within the space of a couple of days—quite an achievement!” Ian Paul quipped on his blog.
General Synod Takes a Leaf Out of Hitler’s Autobiography
In Mein Kampf, Hitler explains how the masses “more easily fall victim to the big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads, and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous representation in others.” Hitler does not characterize his own poisonous propaganda as lies; he instead adopts the persona of a truth-teller and asserts that the Jews are the ones behind the great lie, effectively engaging in moral inversion.
The day before General Synod met in York, preached a sermon on the prophet Isaiah at York Minster. In a twist of supreme irony, she cited God’s word to the Jews in the Babylonian exile, assuring them that they would soon return to the Promised Land: “For you shall go out in joy and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands” (Isaiah 55:12).
Remarkably, the archbishop failed to recognize that God has fulfilled his promise when Israel was reborn in 1948. Mullally trumpeted her sermon on X. Jewish columnist Nicole Lampert responded: “Isaiah was a Jewish prophet in Judea. Yet your Synod has approved a document denying Jewish indigenous presence in that land. You encouraged them to approve it.”
I couldn’t help chiming in. I tweeted: “Isaiah says: ‘Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!’ (5: 20). Mullally and her Synod have proved the prophet right by voting for the libelous Kairos II document.”
Rev. Dr. Jules Gomes is a fellow at the Ideological Defense Institute
Disgraceful .
The Archbishop certainly does not represent me or my Christian faith.
England has been conquered by Islamists and Hamas s pet Anglicans are destined for Hell.