Raphael Warnock South Africa Israel Palestine show travelers Fox Raphael Warnock South Africa Israel Palestine

Warnock walks back comments comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa

Reading now: 940
foxnews.com

The Rev. Raphael Warnock, one of two Democratic challengers whose runoff elections in Georgia next month will shape control of the Senate during the early Biden administration, distanced himself from past remarks in which he criticized Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in stark terms.

in 2019, Warnock signed a statement about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories that repeatedly mentioned apartheid and South Africa.

It was signed by a number of fellow Christian faith leaders who had traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories. “We saw the patterns that seem to have been borrowed and perfected from other previous oppressive regimes,” the statement read.

Read more on foxnews.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA