Members of the United Church of Canada and Canadian Jewish community leaders fear a hardening of relations or, at worst, an irrevocable rift between the two religious groups should a controversial proposal to boycott Israeli settlement goods be accepted at the United Church’s 41st General Council next week.

A United Church working group released a 29-page report last May calling on church members to participate in a comprehensive boycott of items produced in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which the working group deems illegal.

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