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Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley Claims Jews See Themselves as ‘Master Race’

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Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley has claimed that Israelis see Jews as a “master race”: “Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,'” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025:

Martin is the latest Irish religious leader to issue harsh criticism of Israel’s conduct during the Israel-Hamas War, with Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley claiming on Remembrance Sunday that the IDF had a cruel policy of targeting schools, hospitals, and mosques, and that Israelis saw Jews as a “master race” – a term usually associated with Nazi ideology.

“This takes different forms in different times and places, but it is the same horrible idea, that one group of people is intrinsically more valuable than any other. Once that is accepted, then the elimination of others follows as a matter of course – because they don’t count,” Oxley said at the Dublin Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on November 10….

The charge is preposterous. No Israeli Jews are taught that they are “intrinsically more valuable than any other.” For god’s sake, all the Israelis want from the Arabs is that they stop trying to murder them. It’s a simple wish. No “master race” ideology is involved. It is the Arabs of Hamas who want to eliminate the Jews. They say so in their charter. Jews have no desire to “eliminate” the Arabs of Gaza; millions of leaflets, text messages, and robocalls meant to spare the lives of Gazan civilians are conclusive evidence of that.

“We have seen this, for example, in the aggression of Netanyahu’s government towards the Secretary of the United Nations; in the contempt shown to the international courts, as if they should dare to hold Israel to account; and in the attacks on the UNIFIL forces in Lebanon,” said Oxley, taking pride that the Irish government had drawn Israeli fire for its position on the conflict.

The UN has become for Israel a constant scold, its staff members making wild accusations, while the General Assembly has passed more resolutions condemning the Jewish state than the number passed about all the other 192 states put together. Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is an unrepentant antisemite, and so, it has become clear, is the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whose anti-Israel animus, expressed in his charges of “genocide,” he no longer bothers to hide.

Oxley said that while the soldiers of the two world wars also did cruelties, out of the conflict came a better world, this was not the case with Israel’s multi-front war against Hamas and Iranian proxies.

Destroying a terror group such as Hamas will not bring about a “better world”? So getting rid of a group that glories in rape, torture, and murder won’t make the world better? It will certainly make the world better for Israelis, and for Arabs in Gaza who have endured Hamas’ corrupt despotism since 2007. It will make the world safer for all those who know that they too can be, and many have been, victims of Muslim terrorism, in the United States and all over Europe. Defeating Hamas is no different from defeating Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. Oxley, maddened by antisemitism, cannot allow himself to recognize that.

“Whatever peace and security the Israeli regime hopes to achieve by the considerable damage done to the leadership and resources of Hamas and Hezbollah, what is most obvious to the rest of the world is the desolation and destruction wrought in Gaza, in Lebanon, and in the West Bank. Shalom, it is not,” said Oxley. “The policy of targeting schools and hospitals and mosques; the starvation and the constant need to move elsewhere; going back again and again to bomb people who have already been deprived of home and happiness and everything else – is such cruelty necessary? Does it not tend to dehumanize the aggressor as well as the victim? And what of the constant refusal to take responsibility? The unending mantra of the IDF: This is the fault of Hamas. But it is your hands that have pulled the trigger, that have dropped the bomb that took that child’s legs, that woman’s life, that family’s home.”…

One more time: any harm caused to civilians in Gaza — and in every war there are civilian deaths — is a direct result of Hamas’ embedding its fighters and hiding its weapons among civilians. Oxley mentions the “desolation and destruction” in Gaza, but not the efforts of the IDF to minimize both. The IDF does not “target schools and hospitals and mosques” that are being used as schools and hospitals and mosques. It targets these “schools” and “mosques” and “hospitals” when they are being used by Hamas as weapons warehouses, as fighters’ hideouts, as command-and-control centers. When the IDF recently evacuated the Kamal Adwan Hospital of its patients and medical personnel, it discovered that 240 Hamas fighters had been hiding in the “hospital.” Should that building be free from attack because it was once just a hospital, but for a long time has been an outpost for Hamas?

In Nostra Aetate, Pope Paul VI and the Second Vatican Council changed the Church’s view of Jews and Judaism for the better. Section Four of that document repudiates the centuries-old “deicide” charge against all Jews, stresses the religious bond shared by Jews and Catholics, reaffirms the eternal covenant between God and the People of Israel, and dismisses church interest in trying to baptize Jews. In the outrageous charges they have flung at Israel, Archbishop Martin and Pope Francis are undoing that good work of Paul VI. As for the Anglican Oxley, and his incredible remark about the Jews believing themselves to be the “master race,” I would like to borrow a line that the Austrian writer Karl Kraus made in 1933 about Adolf Hitler: “About Hitler I have nothing to say.” About Oxley I have nothing to say.

Comments

  2. Ireland is quickly becoming better known for sheer stupidity than for its shamrocks.

  3. In Ireland now, just as in the UK and other parts of Western Europe, wouldn’t that be regarded as prosecutable hate speech? I mean it would be if a different certain group wee offended in such a way.

    • Well, yes–if thise were said about Muslims although Islam *really is* a supremacist creed.

      • Indeed. People in the UK who insult islam have their door kicked in by police or are moved for ‘their own safety’.
        This is prior to any official anti-islamaphobia laws as well.

    • Offending the Jews and the conservative Christians are never considered as hate speech. Just like the American blacks can not be racist.
      We live in a very stupid world where people has no shame applying double standard

  4. This fool is the epitome of the Episcopal Bishop in Lewis’ “The Great Divorce,” ever politicking at the expense of sound doctrine. Perhaps he can have Candace Owens serve the Sacrament of the Altar at his next service.

  6. So, if you love Nazis and hate Jews, when you call a Jew a Nazi, are you complimenting him? I’m so confused, someone please explain.

    • Yeah, I think so. But even more confused than us are the jihadists: on one hand, they call the Jews Nazis, but on the other, complain that Hitler didn’t finish the job. Which ironically didn’t even happen, if one attended the many conferences in Teheran on the holocaust

      • But, then they also say it did happen, but was carried out by the Jews.

        Lies never add up to Truth. What is that line about ”oh what a tangled web….”?

  7. Are there any war or violent police work you could support? If not, you truly belong to heaven and you got my respect as pacifist.

  9. Martin and Oxley are disgraces of both branches of Christianity. I assume they are not aware UN had staff fighting with and for Hamas in the massacre of Nov. 7th. Nice bedfellows they keep but in case of Catholics in particular, why change the habit of 2000 years of officially preaching hatred towards Jews in their churches, I know they did as a Catholic friend told me they did. When Israel managed to get Jerusalem back, the Vatican had to change it’s tune. Now they have Islamists in charge of Jesus’s birthplace, which ain’t nice for them, after their experience under more Jewish control.

  11. Osama Bin Laden planned many attacks some of which were on Muslims, the twin towers was a direct Act Of War by Al Quaida which operated across the Middle East thats why American forces reached as far as Afghanistan to destroy them.
    In working out the responsibility for the death toll you have to assess all the loss of life throughout this period as being the responsibility of the aggressor, just as in Gaza the combined Jewish and Palestinian deaths are the responsibility of Hamas.
    Cause and effect, had A not happened B would not have occurred.
    A Kings treasure is in his subjects but if a king does not respect his subjects he will not care for their ability to live in peace, they all know that in the blink of an eye he may sacrifice thousands of them on a whim. That reality is obvious in the Middle East where they all talk about God and then someone detonates a bomb in a mosque this means that Islam has no love of God or love for neighbour.
    Be honest why are they so keen to get into Europe, that they are dying in droves on the way.

  12. The *Master Race* slur is a denunciation of the purpose that God created man we are all to be *The children of God* Jews and now Christians through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

  13. Absolutely disgusting. I have never heard any Israeli or Jewish person make this claim. What will this hideous moron do when he stands before the King of the Jews when He rules the world?

    • Likely, he’ll claim to have ‘expelled demons, performed powerful works, ‘ and then ask the rocks to fall over him and hide him.

  14. The very people he champions will soon overwhelm and brutalise his own people, yet another political correct Clergyman filled with the spirit of the world not the spirit of God.

  15. Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley Claims Jews See Themselves as ‘Master Race’
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    Just grotesque calumny–this is neither doctrinally nor historically true. Oxley should be ashamed of himself.

  16. Dear friends,

    The Bible simple refers to “His chosen people”. These “chosen” are considered to God as the apple of his eye.
    Quoting Exodus 11:7
    “But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the Lord does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.”

    Somehow we should consider Scripture authoritative, and not man pretending to hold authority.

    May peace reign.

    • God chose the offspring of His *friend*, Abraham, due to that man’s faith, to give the Law, which was a “tutor leading to Christ.”
      Keeping the Law was actually a burden on the people and no one could keep it perfectly. But if the Hebrews tried to keep it, God would continue blessing them. And through their faith and obedience, all of mankind could receive God’s blessing….all who put faith in God and His Son..

  17. I’m surprised he and Ireland aren’t staying neutral like the last time a master race was on the march.

  18. Oxley should know that the Muslims believe that they are the best of people despite being barbaric knuckle draggers as their primitive beliefs display. So to Muslims they are the master race and they hate all non believers in their rotten religion.

  21. Canon Oxhead–oops, Oxley–is one of a myriad of biblically illiterate non-entities whom we Christians have foolishly allowed into leadership.

    Oxley ought to know from a reading of Deuteronomy that “Chosenness” isn’t because we Jews or Presbyterians or whoever are better than anyone else, for we are a stiff-necked people, and God is only showing his faithfulness to his friend Abraham (and reiterates it to the umpteenth degree in his fulfilling all his prophecies in Jesus the Messiah). While I do not hold a candle for Rabbinical Judaism, I will admit that it also sees the promised and electing work of God as reflective of God’s, rather than our own, failthfulness.

    In contrast, it is the Qur’an which tells Muslims that they are the “best of men”–a supremacist teaching if ever there was one.

    He might also note that Islam is from the get-go a religion of bearing false witness against a neighbor. The Qur’an also says that Christians see a Trinity of God, Jesus, and Mary rather then the Father, Word/Son (Jesus), nd Holy Spirit. It also accuses the Jews of making Ezra (Uzair) Son of God analogous to how Christians see Jesus.

    And is the misguided Zionist dream (after all, Ignaz Goldziher and Gustave Weill seemed to think that the Arab brothers would embrace the returning Jews with open arms) and the wars stemming therefrom really making the world a worse off place? By keeping the world of Islam off balance, the Israelis are doing all of us (inlcuding the Muslims themsevles) a great service.

    What does Mr. Oxley think of the October 7 attacks? What does he think of the Muslim rape gangs infesting not only Britain, but Sweden and other European countries as well? What does he think of the Hamas charter, which makes genocide one of its pillars?

  23. This is the same country that claims Ireland for the Irish and ethnically cleansed the English Irish despite having lived there for hundreds of years? And happily allowed their diaspora to join in the fun. And grants passports to the descendants of their diaspora?

    Why can’t Judean Jews be allowed the same paddy?

  24. This Christian Archydude needs to read the Quran and what is says about an actual master race and then perhaps he can take note of which people from which religion is attacking his Churches and killing his flock while they are inside as well as attacking dudes like him standing at his Altar but I guess in today’s version of reality that appears way too much of a stretch for morons like this blind fool..
    He must truly love that wee Popey dude in Rome.

  25. So much of Ireland’s leadership are former IRA, or other leftist/socialist types that never grew up, that is is sad. It should rightly be called The People’s Republic of Ireland!

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