Christians are coming together to push Labour on Palestine. Here's why

Palestinians collect their belongings from their evacuated homes after the Israeli army issued a number of short term access permits for residents of the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem (Image: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

WHILE visiting the West Bank earlier this year and hearing harrowing stories of Israeli occupation, Revd Mark Slaney said there wasn’t a conversation he had with Palestinian Christians where he didn’t weep.

So affected was the Methodist Church minister by Israel’s “insidious undermining of people”, he returned along with others in the Christian community motivated to do something to make a difference.