Sunday, July 18, 2004
If only the Presbyterian Church actually produced anything that could be boycotted.
JPost: US Presbyterian Church calls for sanctions on Israel
In a vote of 431 to 62, the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA compared Israel's policies to those of South Africa and approved gathering data to support a selective divestment of holdings in multinational corporations doing business in Israel/ Palestine, a July 2 church release noted. The church's liaison to the Middle East, Rev. Victor Makari, noted after the vote that if nothing else seems to have changed the policy of Israel toward Palestinians, we need to send a clear and strong message.
In a letter to the church's leader Clifton Kirkpatrick, Anti-Defamation League interfaith affairs director Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor called the resolutions offensive and distressing.
To assert that there is a moral equivalency between the racist policy of apartheid and the efforts to protect the citizenry of Israel is unconscionable, Bretton-Granatoor wrote.
If you missed it the first time, the reader may be interested in the speech of Dr. Dennis Hale, Professor of Political Science at Boston College and an Episcopal lay minister I reported on here:
Whatever the cause, many main-line Protestant leaders have effectively been co-opted by the world-wide Jihad against Israel and against America and against infidels everywhere - without, of course, being aware of WHO has co-opted them, or how they are being used...
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I wonder how much the opinions of the clergy reflect the views of the membership. It's hard to tell with many of the mainline churches.
Yeah, but you must figure they feel on pretty secure ground with a margin like that. Of course I have no idea what their internal politics are like.
The really ironic part, of course, is that they're claiming that "nothing else seems to have changed the policy of Israel toward Palestinians" just as Sharon is getting ready to withdraw from Gaza. I have to wonder why they're picking now to jump on the divestment bandwagon - the signal they're sending is that Israel is damned whatever it does.