(Toronto Star-Canada) Josh Tapper - Members of the United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, voted Wednesday to affirm a controversial motion supporting a boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in east Jerusalem. "The reaction of the Jewish community is one of unbridled outrage," Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said Wednesday. "It is beyond comprehension that (the United Church) would choose to so skew a commentary on the conflict and come out with so one-sided an approach." An online survey, commissioned by CIJA and Faithful Witness, an antiboycott group led by a United Church pastor, found 78% of church members believe the church should remain neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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