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Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/23/bishop_backs_off_push_to_divest_funds/
Episcopal Bishop Backs Off Push to Divest Funds
(Boston Globe) Michael Paulson - Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, a leading Christian advocate for Palestinian rights, has told the American Jewish Committee that he will oppose efforts, now sweeping through mainline Protestantism, to divest church funds from Israel. Shaw wrote, ''I do not support proposals for divestment in Israel." He said divestment is ''especially inappropriate" now, at a moment he described as a ''period of hope for peace," and he also said divestment would harm Palestinians because of the interrelationship of the Israeli and Palestinian economies.