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The Divest-from-Israel movement's only success to
date (other than success in generating publicity for itself) has been with the
US branch of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) which last year voted to begin
examining divestment from US companies doing business with the State of Israel
in 2005. As expected, anti-Israel activists have used the church's decision to
lobby other mainstream churches to follow suit, offering the Presbyterian
Church's decision as "proof" of their characterization of Israel and the Middle
East conflict.
Since making this decision, the church has come under
increasing criticism from Jewish groups with whom they had once claimed to want
to form alliances, from other churches and from the media. The PCUSA vote
precipitated a particularly radical group of church members to meet with
leaders of Hezbollah, a group on the US government's list of terrorist
organizations, in Lebanon, a particularly embarrassing (although unsurprising)
result of the church making common cause with the worldwide Israel boycott
movement.
While mainline churches have always been fertile ground for
the Divest-from-Israel movement to ply its storyline of villainous Israelis and
innocent Palestinians, other churches have pulled back from the brink having
seen the result of the PCUSA decision. Men and women of good will, both inside
and outside the church are working hard to seek a reversal of the decision of
the Presbyterian Church. Efforts by you and other activists to keep this
poisonous movement from targeting your place of worship can help turn the tide.
The following documents are related to the this campaign. |
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| Boycott
Watch: Presbyterian Church Violates US Antiboycott Laws |
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| The Layman Online: Two Presbyterian staff members who met with
Hezbollah are fired |
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| christianpost.com:
Presbyterian Church Hezbollah Visit Controversy Culminates with Bilateral
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