Last week was Passover, so the ABC decided to interview this bloke … Host David Rutledge speaking on RN Breakfast, Good Friday:
Dr Stephen Sizer: former Anglican vicar, conservative evangelical and, depending to who you ask, thoughtful and sympathetic friend to the Jewish people or dangerous anti-Semite.
Sizer is known best in his home country for a very controversial Facebook post. BBC News website, January 30, 2015:
The Church of England is investigating a vicar accused of posting an article on Facebook blaming Israel for the 9/11 attacks in the US.
The ABC’s RN Breakfast, Friday:
Rutledge: I accept that you’re not an anti-Semite but do you accept that you sail pretty close to the wind …
Sizer: (sighs)
Sizer’s comments on an article he shared titled “9/11 Israel did it”, Facebook, January 29, 2015:
Is this (the article he shared) anti-Semitic? It raises so many questions.
Read the opinion piece from The Australian (subscription required).