Should christians divest from Israel?

The Christian Science Monitor has this POLL asking if christians should divest (and boycott) Israel for it's 'oppressive' policies.

The Presbyterians' decision to consider divesting such businesses from its $8 billion portfolio, coupled with the prospect that the Episcopal Church and other churches might do the same, is adding to tensions that have risen over recent years between mainline Protestant churches and the American Jewish community over their differing views of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.

It is also stirring Jewish groups to try to head off divestment - and to rebuild a rapport with these churches, with whom they have long worked to further civil rights and social justice.

"To call for divestment played into all the language of boycott, from earlier periods in Jewish history to the Arab boycott of Israel. It caused an explosion in the Jewish community," says David Elcott, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

Insanity. There is a definition of evil that defines evil as calling evil good and good evil. This is basically what Presbyterians are considering.

Comments

Publius Sed said…
Thank you Gindy. I also hope they are a minority.

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