US church to boycott Israel for “apartheid” of Muslim terrorists – Israeli Jews aren’t allowed to defend their lives
Delegates call on UCC’s financial arms to sell off stock in any company profiting from ‘human rights violations arising from the occupation’ – Economic impact on Israel expected to be negligible.
These are the poor Muslim Arabs in Israel that UCC is supporting.
The top legislative body of the [Nazi] United Church of Christ voted Tuesday to “divest” from Israeli companies with business in the [Arab Muslim] territories, a sign of the growing momentum of a protest movement against “Israeli policy” [that means against Jews].
The US-based liberal [big surprise – it’s leftists again] Protestant group’s General Synod endorsed the action on a vote of 508-124 with 38 abstentions.
Later Tuesday, the denomination was to vote on whether to label Israeli policies in the territories as “apartheid.”
Last year, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to sell stock in a few companies whose products are used by Israel in the territories. The United Church of Christ resolution was broader. Delegates are calling on the denomination’s financial arms to sell off stock in any company profiting from what the church called human rights violations arising from the occupation.
The church’s two major financial arms, a pension board and investment fund, together control nearly $4 billion. Each is guided by directors who can decide whether to follow the call for divestment. If they do sell off stock, the economic impact on Israel is expected to be negligible.
Still, the vote aims to bring moral pressure for change [since they are immoral, that means they want more Jews to be killed by Muslim terrorists] from within the US, Israel’s closest and most important ally [which is not an ally at all since Obama is anti-Israel].
The church also voted to boycott products made in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank [because they want Arab Muslim terrorists to take over Israel].
Peter Makari of Global Ministries, an agency that is part of the United Church of Christ, said the resolutions “reflect our urgent concern for the worsening effects of the Israeli occupation on [so-called] Palestinian people and lives, including the disparity in rights and power.” The church affirmed Israel’s right to exist, along with a “sovereign, independent” Palestinian state [even though Israel ships in over 800 trucks a day of free food to the Arab Muslims, gives them free electricity, water, medication, and build them free schools and hospitals – which Jews don’t get but pay for with their tax dollars and self-hating Jewish donations].
The American Jewish Committee, an advocacy group based in New York, slammed the resolutions and said the action would “bolster those who oppose peace.”
Separately, the Episcopal Church, meeting in Salt Lake City, was considering a divestment resolution. And at another meeting this week, the Mennonite Church USA will also take up a divestment proposal.
The votes take place as the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, known as BDS, gains strength on US college campuses and in many places in Europe. The Israeli government and many Jewish leaders have condemned the movement as anti-Semitic and an attempt to delegitimize Israel.
[Ynet]
