Brian McLaren's Emerging Pro-Palestinian Position

The evangelical left's anti-Israel slant from One News Now

The head of a Protestant renewal organization is calling out a prominent member of the so-called "evangelical left" for leading a delegation on an anti-Israel pilgrimage.

Brian McLaren is the founding pastor of the Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore area, which is part of the "Emergent Church" movement. He recently led a delegation through Israel and the West Bank decrying alleged pro-Israel partiality.

Mark Tooley, president of The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD), says McLaren's positions are clearly anti-Israel. He says that according to McLaren, the Jewish nation is "a western imperialist power that is oppressing the Palestinians -- who are, in contrast, an impoverished Third World victim...suffering because of American economic and military support for Israel."

...Tooley says McLaren and his ilk do not favor a two-state solution, but rather a one-state solution that dissolves the Jewish state of Israel and replaces it with one where Muslims are in the majority.