Liberal Judaism chief executive Rabbi Danny Rich has restated the movement’s policy of Considered Engagement, after speaking at a Church-run school workshop on Israel and Palestine.

Danny’s appearance at the event – where he debated with The Promise director Peter Kosminsky and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods founding member Deborah Fink – was covered in today’s Jewish Chronicle. You can read the article here – http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/61432/rabbi-defends-speaking-alongside-anti-zionist

Danny said: “At Liberal Judaism we have a policy we call Considered Engagement and we consider it our duty to speak in areas where lots of others will refuse to go.

“I believe the Jewish community is doing itself no favours by absenting itself from Church debates on the ‘Palestinian situation’. The result is that they often then have to turn to a non-Zionist Jew to be their Jewish/Israeli speaker and therefore have no pro-Israel voice.

“My view, as a committed Zionist, is that Israel has a right to exist and does many things right – and I'm prepared to go and argue that in even the most hostile conditions.”