With last week's MLK celebrations still fresh in our minds, and with today's readings ringing in our ears, we do well to recall Dr. King's words spoken on December 7th, 1964 just days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In a major address in London, he said,
"If the United Kingdom and the United States decided tomorrow morning not to buy South African goods, not to buy South African gold, to put an embargo on oil, if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny that we find there, then apartheid would be brought to an end. Then the majority of South Africans of all races could at last build the shared society they desire."
King's words (and those of Jesus, Paul, and Ezra in today's readings) are as true in relation to Zionist Israel as ever they were of South Africa. Today, the Palestinians not the Zionists are God's chosen and should be treated as such.
All people of biblical faith should support the BDS movement.
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