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News Pro-Israel Presbyterians Push Back on Divestment
A Presbyterian group took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling on fellow church members to oppose divestment from Israel. “Presbyterians: We can do better than divestment,” read the headline on the ad signed by scores of Presbyterian clergy and laypeople under the rubric of the group Presbyterians for a Just and…
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Culture Pulitzer Prize-Winning Marilynne Robinson Discusses Her First Trip to Israel
Marilynne Robinson is the Pulitzer and Orange Prize-winning author of the novels “Housekeeping,” “Gilead,” “Home” and the forthcoming “Lila.” Not long before hostilities broke out in the region, she attended the fourth annual International Writer’s Festival at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim cultural center in Jerusalem. Robinson is a committed Christian who grew up Presbyterian and now…
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Breaking News Presbyterians Delete Sale of ‘Zionism Unsettled’ From Website
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) removed the sale of an anti-Zionist tract from its website. The move comes a week after the church voted to divest from three companies that do business with Israel’s security sector in the West Bank. “Effective immediately, the publication ‘Zionism Unsettled’ will no longer be sold on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)…
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Opinion No, Presbyterian Divestment Is Not Anti-Semitic
Twitter Yesterday, Jane Eisner, with whom I most often agree, wrote about the Presbyterian vote to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions. These are three companies that reportedly participate in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank by providing heavy equipment for the construction of the barrier-fence, the destruction of Palestinian homes and building…
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Opinion When Christians Fight Over Israel
Choir members at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida / Getty Images When Christians fight, Jews are collateral damage. The prize is Israel, or at least how Americans perceive Israel. That’s one lesson to take away from the Presbyterian Church-USA’s (PC-USA) decision on June 20 to divest from three companies that profit from Israel’s…
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Opinion Why Presbyterian Divestment Feels Like Anti-Semitism
In a hotel ballroom in Jerusalem jammed with journalists from all over the Jewish world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a rambling speech that covered everything from Iran’s nuclear ambitions to an Israeli cow that he claims produces more milk than any other cow in the world. Really. But I want to focus on his…
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Israel News After Presbyterian Win, BDS Advocates Trumpet Divestment as Path to Two States
Advocates for Israel may be confronting a new kind of boycott, divestment and sanctions push. But the effort to frame the pressure tactic into a weapon for attaining a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is being rejected by most Israel defenders as a distinction without a difference. The June 21 vote by the Presbyterian…
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