6-14-2014 - U.S. Presbyterians face watershed moment on Israel divestment - World Israel News | Haaretz - Associated Press

Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in Detroit next week, mulls divestment from some companies whose products are used by Israeli government in the Palestinian territories.

Comment I left:
Rabbi Rich Jacobs describes the debate in terms of challenging the "fundamental legitimacy of the state of Israel."
The movement does not question the "legitimacy of the state of Israel". It questions, mainly by drawing attention to,
the morality of the Israeli government's actions.  The church is taking heed of Jewish prophets to seek justice, and thereby in a sense to relegitimize Israel.
Rabbi Jacobs should be criticizing the ongoing confiscation of Palestinian land and displacement of Palestinian people.
Instead he criticizes the critics. Rabbi Jacobs seriously misrepresents the Presbyterian divestment initiative.

Posted by Sam Bryan, AIME member

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