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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Letter-to-the-Editor-Presbyterian-voice-458000
Presbyterians Providing Legitimacy to BDS?
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - At its biennial General Assembly in Portland, Oregon, last week, the Presbyterian Church of the U.S. blamed "Israel's policy trajectory of continued settlements and brutal occupation" for the stalemate in peace talks with the Palestinians. The Presbyterian leadership also called on its faithful to "prayerfully study the call from Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the State of Israel." Unfortunately, the Presbyterians, once again, have shown how their sincere desire to defend the weak has been exploited by organizations with rabidly anti-Zionist and even anti-American agendas. All five of the mainline liberal Protestant denominations in the U.S. have debated, and in some cases adopted, policies that reflect a simplistic and slanted perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that sees Israel as the perpetual aggressor and the Palestinians as the helpless victim. In the process, they ignore the fact that Israel is one of the few places in the Middle East where Christians' rights are fervently protected. Who can take seriously liberal Protestant denominations that express a blatant double standard that provides legitimacy to BDS, an anti-Semitic movement, instead of praising the only country in the region that affords religious freedom for all faiths?