A vicar who posted a link to an article that blamed Israel for the 9/11 attacks is to keep his job, but has been banned from using social media for six months, it was reported on 9 February.
The Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, used Facebook to highlight an article that said the official narrative of the atrocity was ‘absurd’. The Bishop of Guildford said his ‘anti-Zionist agenda has become a liability’ and that Dr Sizer had agreed to refrain from commenting on Middle East issues.
Apologised
The Diocese of Guildford launched an investigation after the Church of England vicar posted a link to an article entitled ‘9/11 Israel did it’, and reportedly wrote: ‘It raises so many questions’. Dr Sizer later removed the link and apologised for sharing the material, which he said was ‘ill-considered and misguided’. His original post coincided with the week of Holocaust memorial day. In a statement on the website of the Diocese of Guildford, Mr Sizer said he had ‘never believed Israel or any other country was complicit in the terrorist atrocity of 9/11’.
