Pro-Israel Groups Chastise PC(USA) for Divestiture Plan
by Jim Brown
August 27, 2004
(AgapePress) - The head of a coalition of 200 pro-Israel groups says the Presbyterian Church (USA) appears to care more about the inconvenience of Palestinian terrorists than the destroyed lives of their Jewish victims.Delegates to the PC(USA)'s General Assembly recently voted overwhelmingly to consider divesting itself from companies that do business with Israel. They also condemned the Jewish nation for building a security fence designed to protect civilians from Palestinian terrorists.
Those actions by the PC(USA) have prompted the National Unity Coalition for Israel to start a letter-writing campaign to the denomination's leaders. Unity Coalition CEO Esther Levens says the PC(USA) should rethink its hostile approach to Israel.
"It really encourages the terrorists when a major church in the United States speaks out so openly and really wants to punish Israel for being the victim of Palestinian terrorism," Levens explains.
"I just think that 9/11 should make the Presbyterians, as well as all Americans, aware that what we're fighting is a real war against freedom and democracy, and that it has very little to do with Israel," she says. "They're kind of in the front lines of Western civilization."
According to Levens, thousands of Israel supporters have already sent letters of protest to the CEO and executive director of the PC(USA)'s General Assembly.
