Friday, July 16, 2004

Presbyterian Church USA against Israel???

Jewish liberals received a shock this week. The liberal Presbyterian Church USA [thanks to readers who corrected the earlier mistake on the name] declared war on Israel at is annual General Assembly meeting, approving a divestment campaign from Israel by an 87% vote, making the Holy Land into the new South Africa, in their minds.  The shock was doubly painful since liberal Jews believe that liberal churches are supposed to be their allies in all kinds of common fights. 
Richard Baehr writes in The American Thinker about how the Presbyterian Church USA (which is the liberal block of the Pres Church in the US) is now equating Israel with South Africa and how many liberal Jews were surprised.  Like Baehr concludes, I also hope the denomination portfolio income does suffer and if they don't rescind the ban for the correct reasons (Israel should be supported and is correct in the actions it has taken against the Palestinian), hopefully they will at least drop the ban for selfish economic reasons.
 
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in Israel as well.  Israel National News is also carrying the story.  Will this affect the Jewish vote in this country?  We will have to see.

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