JTA PHOTO Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism addresses the 221st PCUSA General Assembly, urging a rejection of divestment.
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
A Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) vote to divest from some Israeli holdings may be a largely symbolic measure by a denomination rapidly losing its symbolic weight.
The PC(USA) voted to divest from three companies—Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions—that provide equipment Israel uses to raze houses, operate checkpoints and communicate in the occupied West Bank, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The decision makes the denomination one of the few in the U.S. advocating financial divestment as a peace strategy, but the denomination’s shrinking membership and limited financial stake in the decision led some to question the symbolic power of the move.
The proposal, which originally called for the denomination to “Reject any proposed divestment and economic sanctions against the state of Israel or any application of the PC(USA)’s corporate engagement policies toward such ends,” flipped in its final version to “Instruct the Presbyterian Foundation and the Board of Pensions of the PC(USA), to divest from Caterpillar, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions, in accord with our church’s decades-long socially responsible investment (SRI) history.”
The general assembly voted to disapprove a related measure calling for a boycott of all Hewlett-Packard products.
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The caption on the photo is incorrect. That photo is of commissioners lining up to speak on the matter of marriage. I was there. That is me in the back!
The Layman publishes a photo of John Shuck, but not in a “wanted poster.” What are the chances of that?
If the Bible is true and we face judgment before God, PC (USA) members may find themselves in the hot seat trying to explain the joy they took in this rather public divestiture action arguably against “the apple of God’s eye.” How did the brainwashing of politically correct pluralism ever cause Christians to turn a blind eye to Islamic taqiyyah against us as followers of Jesus Christ, with Jews among those the Islamists also consider infidels to be conquered if not by the sword than by media campaigns, interfaith equivalency and smiling hypocrisy? As a woman Islam is no religion I’d ever want to find myself in — the modern-day reality of violence by Muslim males against girls and women cannot be denied. If not for the Bible and the Gospel and Jesus Christ, then just for self-preservation women should come out of churches whose male leadership is in appeasement mode with Islam.
Do you want to be aligned for interfaith purposes with a religion whose scriptures teach the anti-Christian message that follows?
“O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people” (Quran 5:51).
“Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him [Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf]?’ The Prophet said, ‘Yes,’ Muhammad bin Maslama said, ‘Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).’ The Prophet said, ‘You may say it'” (Hadith Vol. 5, Book 59, #369).
“Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil’s strategy is ever weak” (Quran 4:76).
“O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand” (Quran 8:65).
“As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them…” (Quran 4:34).
“O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle ?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you.” (Hadith Vol. 1, Book 6, #301).
Now, the pic of me is removed. Instead, it is one of Rick Jacobs who tried a lame bribe that backfired. If we would vote his way then he’d set us up for a few beers with Bibi. Commissioners didn’t buy it nor did they buy into the emotional love us don’t leave us blackmail. Now the American Jewish establishment is trying to smear the PCUSA with charges of anti-semitism. That won’t work either. Why? Because the issue is the occupation. End it.
Nope, doesn’t matter one bit. Just another example of how the PCUSA seeks to align itself with those who are most repressive and hostile to Christians – ANY islamic nation, North Korea, Cuba, take your pick. All of them persecute Christians, all of them have most favored nation status in Louisville.