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A Stubborn People by Ari Bussel Not taking action has a tendency of coming back to bite us. Mordechai Va’anunu, who exposed the atomic secrets of Israel, was motivated, according to Ha’aretz newspaper, “by reasons of principle: he was concerned that Israel's nuclear program was, in his view, out of control, that there wasn't Knesset supervision of the program, or public monitoring of any sort. Financial reward was not his motive. The fact is that he did not receive money from [the Sunday Times] for [the Times’] report." It was the mid 70’s when Va’anunu worked at the Nuclear Compound...

Pennsylvania Tobacco Settlement Fund to invest terror-free; Policy prohibits investments from going to foreign companies tied to Iran and Sudan. The Pennsylvania Tobacco Settlement Investment Board (TSIB) adopted a resolution this week sponsored by State Rep. Josh Shapiro, that would prohibit Tobacco Settlement Investment fund monies from being invested in foreign companies tied to Iran and Sudan.

Wright also called Zionism “racist” in the Trinity United Church of Christ’s official publications. Although the Trinity United Church of Christ’s Trumpet Magazine appears to be inaccessible, Barack Obama’s pastor failed to cover all of his tracks, and we have retrieved a .pdf file of Jeremiah Wright’s “This is Where I Came In.” (this_where_i_came_in) It is hosted at tucc.org (the Trinity United Church of Christ) and therefore cannot be a forgery or smear. Rep. Wexler (D-FL) and the National Jewish Democratic Council would doubtlessly prefer that voters, and especially pro-Israel ones, not know about this but Jeremiah Wright’s “This is...

(CNN) – Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it. Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. “Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — As their biannual meeting concluded last week, Presbyterian Church leaders took some actions that irritated Jewish groups, but steered clear of the talk of divestment from Israel that ignited a firestorm in Presbyterian-Jewish relations in 2004. On Friday, the church's general assembly, in a 504-171 vote, approved a resolution endorsing a proposal for Middle East peace crafted in Jordan last year. Known as the Amman Call, the plan includes a "right of return" for Palestinian Arabs that Israel has rejected because it could produce a wave of immigration that would mean the demise of Israel as...

Many of American Jewry's largest religious and advocacy groups have lashed out in the past few days at the Presbyterian Church USA for a new document published by the church that warned against anti-Jewish bias in the church's pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace. The new document "does more to excuse anti-Semitism and foster anti-Jewish motifs then it does to dispel them," according to a strongly worded letter to church leader Rev. Cliff Kirkpatrick, the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church, from Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism; Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of the United Synagogue...

Methodists are being asked to single out Israel as sufficiently wicked to join the Sudan as a target of economic sanctions. While Barak Obama and John McCain have had to answer for the statements of their church leaders, neither Hillary Clinton nor George Bush have had to do the same, despite the fact that their church - the Methodists - are gathering in Fort Worth to take action that has real, rather than merely rhetorical, significance. During this week's General Conference, the United Methodist Church will be reviewing a number of resolutions urging divestment from companies doing business with Israel...

We remind our readers that Jeremiah Wright’s accusation that Israel created an “ethnic bomb” to kill Black people and Arabs was first exposed at IsraPundit [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=551]. Now we bring you more fresh revelations of anti-Israel hate speech from Barack Obama’s pastor of 20-plus years. With regard to the following, the United Church of Christ has ties to the Sabeel Ecuminical Liberation Theology Center, which refers to the creation of Israel (NOT the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the creation of Israel) as the Nakba or “catastrophe.” Trumpet Magazine The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40...

Divestment: Coming to a Denomination Near You   By Dr. Earl TilfordFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, April 03, 2008 For a generation after World War II, particularly given revelations of the Holocaust, most American Protestant denominations embraced a more tolerant attitude toward Jews. Since the 1980s, however, there has been a marked shift, evident in the anti-Israeli positions adopted by more liberal denominations like the United Methodist Church (UMC); the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA); the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA); and the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (PCUSA).At its April meeting in Fort Worth, the National Conference of...

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The United Methodist Church is poised to become the next U.S. church to consider divestment from a company or companies operating in Israel, a strategy that has embroiled the Presbyterian Church (USA) and other denominations in controversy. At the church's quadrennial General Conference in April in Fort Worth, the Methodists, with more than 8 million U.S. members, will debate whether to pull church holdings in Caterpillar, which provides the Israel Defense Forces with bulldozers. The proposal from the Methodists' General Board of Church and Society comes as the church's women's division offers a 224-page study guide on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

Paul warned us about times like this and the way people – including those claiming to be professing Christians – would act. I strongly believe Paul had in mind the kind of people who run major Protestant denominations like the United Methodist Church. Today, at an event in Fort Worth, Texas, leaders of the denomination, which boasts membership by President Bush and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will consider divesting from all companies that do business with Israel. To say that even considering such an action is hateful, unbiblical, anti-Christian and evil would be an understatement. It's not even understandable except...

from the Christian News Wire release: Methodist Lobbyist Takes Anti-Israel Divestment Agenda to Doorstep of Caterpillar Tractor "The United Methodist Board of Church and Society apparently believes that the roadmap for Middle East peace leads through Peoria, Illinois. Does anyone really think that punishing Caterpillar will help create a peace in the Middle East?" -- Mark Tooley, Executive Director UMAction Contact: Loralei Coyle 202-682-4131, 202-905-6852 cell, lcoyle@ird-renew.org; Radio Interviews: Jeff Walton, jwalton@ird-renew.org; both with the Institute on Religion and Democracy WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- The chief of the United Methodist Church's official lobby office is meeting tomorrow in...

As shrill partisanship dominates Washington, there remains one vital security issue that unites rather than divides America’s leaders: the growing threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. While there are few ideal policy options, there has been a groundswell of state and national legislation to facilitate the divestment of funds from corporations working in the Islamic Republic. As Tehran continues to defy international demands, divestment may prove to be the most effective mechanism yet in curtailing Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions. But what barriers to divestment exist? Is divestment little more than a symbol, or will it drive business...

Michigan Latest State to Target Sudan, Iran July 24, 2007 AP WJLA/NewsChannel 8 LANSING, Mich. -- A growing list of states and universities across the country are pulling their investments from foreign companies that deal with Sudan, Iran and other nations accused of government-supported genocide or terrorism. It could be the largest wave of public divestment activity since efforts targeting South Africa and apartheid in the 1980s. Michigan is among the states that soon could join the effort. The state Legislature on Tuesday was to hold hearings on bills that would restrict the state's pension fund investments. According to the...

Sacramento, CA – Today, the California State Assembly overwhelmingly passed Assemblyman Joel Anderson’s (R-El Cajon) Assembly Bill 221 to divest California’s public retirement funds from key foreign businesses that invest in Iran. “I am gratified by my colleagues’ strong bi-partisan support for this legislation, which will end California taxpayers’ investment in key foreign companies that invest in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Anderson. Democrat Majority Whip Fiona Ma, a primary co-author of AB 221, said, “When CalPERS and CalSTRS invest State retirement funds in Iran, they put these investments at risk.” “California’s taxpayers should not be investing in a...

The chief pastor of the Anglican community in Israel, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, is facing mushrooming allegations of nepotism and graft which have clouded the end of his tenure in office, church officials said Wednesday. The corruption charges, the subject of a four-month internal church committee investigation, have prompted long-time opponents of the bishop to call for his immediate resignation. The internal church inquiry committee examined the allegations. It concluded that El-Assal arranged to have a tender for the insurance policy of employees of the church's two schools here issued to a company that promised to give half the commission...

The Arab world's hatred, racism, & Islamofascism's Jihad drive to isolate, hurt and demonize Israel As Israel is the non Arab, non Muslim 'entity' in Islamo Arab world, the campaign of genocide on the Jews that has started (before the sophistication of excuses like "occupation" or so many new & more "modern" terms thereafter, whether it's emphasizing Israeli security checkpoints on Arab Palestinians -- branding them as "racist" -- more than all the checkpoints inside "proper" Israel on ALL Israelis that are ignored, or that lie of "apartheid wall" when it really seperates between the same Arabs but with different...

(Washington, D.C.): At a moment when things are not going particularly well in the War for the Free World - the global conflict with Islamofascism and its aiders and abetters in which, like it or not, we are currently embroiled - there is a bit of very welcome good news: America is employing at last a powerful new "weapon," one that may help turn the tide. Interestingly, this weapon is not being wielded by our men and women in uniform on the far-flung battlefields of this war. Yet, it has the potential not only to help them prevail there, but...

The vampire's kiss -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jon haber, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 31, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legend (or at least Bram Stoker) posits that a vampire can only enter someone's home if he or she is invited across the threshold. There could be no metaphor more apt for the divest-from-Israel campaigns that have proliferated among schools, unions, cities and churches in the US and Europe over the last four years. "BDS" (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) as a tactic for anti-Israel activity and propaganda galvanized during the notorious UN World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001 - just weeks before the 9/11 attacks....

University of Wisconsin System leaders moved Thursday to pull their assets out of companies that do business with the government of Sudan. UW could not invest in companies that work with the Sudanese government or are complicit in what the U.S. government and other countries consider genocide in the Darfur region in western Sudan under a resolution adopted by a committee of UW System regents. "This is an opportunity for us, on the grounds of humanitarianism, to do the right thing," said Regent Charles Pruitt, chairman of the regents' business and finance committee. The UW System would join 10 states...

The anti-Israel divestment campaign among U.S. churches has been largely defeated. But in the midst of the terrorists' war on Israel, the Religious Left's hostility to Israel continues. Religious Left church officials have responded to the conflict between Israel and Hezballah with their usual lamentations over "the violence." But it is "the violence" by Israel that exclusively concerns them. Typical among them has been the reaction of United Church of Christ president John Thomas. "We watch with horror and outrage as Israel punishes an entire population for the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in Gaza, and as belligerence escalates with...

Early in 2006, pro-Palestinian activists around the world were downright giddy at the momentum behind their efforts to brand an apartheid state and “divest” accordingly. At the year’s midpoint, however, the political cause that had looked so vibrant is now on the ropes following the defeat dealt it by Presbyterians at the church’s bi-annual conference last month. Meeting in Birmingham, the 500+ voting members of the Protestant denomination overwhelmingly disavowed the previous assembly’s enthusiastic embrace of initiating “a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.” But while the Presbyterians’ ostensible about-face is a huge blow for...

Long ago the prophet Yeshaya warned, "Your ruiners and destroyers will come from amongst you" (49:17). It is doubtful whether that the truth of those words has ever been more evident than today. Last week the leaders of the Presbyterian Church, meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, engaged in three days of searching debate over whether to rescind a 2004 resolution calling for divestment from Israel. Similar resolutions have been passed in recent years by the Anglican Church of England and the American Episcopalian Church. Divestment resolutions are of immense propaganda value because they embed in the public mind a connection between...

LONDON - A Church of England body has reaffirmed its support for continued investment in Caterpillar Inc., despite concern over reports that Caterpillar tractors had been used by Israel to knock down Palestinian homes. The Ethical Investment Advisory Group said Monday in its annual report that it did not recommend disinvestment at this time because it had been informed that Caterpillar had made no sales to Israel in recent years, and because it did not wish to do anything to impede negotiations between Israel and Palestinian authorities. But the panel "was clear that, were sales to resume, the matter would...

The Presbyterian Church USA has ended its two-year policy of divesting from companies doing business with Israel and adopted a new resolution which does not single out Israel as a target for divesting funds. The new policy was approved Wednesday by the general assembly of the church gathered in Birmingham, Alabama, winning an overwhelming 483-28 majority. According to the new language adopted by the Church, investments in the Middle East should be done "in only peaceful pursuits" and will be subject to the same scrutiny as any other investment. The term "divestment" is not included in the resolution. The Church's...

The movement to divest in firms doing business in Israel is collapsing. Even leftist-governed mainline Protestant denominations are backing away from the idea. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly abandoned its support for anti-Israel divestment this week. Discredited ideas survive the longest in academia and in liberal church bureaucracies, both of which are ideologically insulated from reality. Anti-Israel activists lost steam on left-wing university campuses several years ago, when charges of anti-Semitism persuaded otherwise politically correct faculty to relent. That left only the declining mainline Protestant denominations as a last recourse. Influenced by vestiges of liberation theology, the religious left...

In recent years, a curious thing has happened among many left-leaning clergy and scholars in mainline Christians churches: They’ve embraced the Palestinian cause, vilified Israel, and held Jewish groups at arms length. Is it a case of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? Or is it something worse? Christian religious leaders and scholars from mainline churches are giving the Judeo-Christian heritage a new twist: Islam. Those with a left-wing bent have been working overtime in recent years to find common ground with Muslims – all, ironically, while holding Jewish groups at arms length. Across the country, they regularly participate in “interfaith dialogues” – a...

BIRMINGHAM -- Nearly 50 people -- including a former U.S. government official who served as a European ambassador and later directed the CIA - spoke during an intense hearing Friday on the divestment policy of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Nearly equal numbers opposed and favored the resolution of the 216th General Assembly that called for "phased selective divestment" of PCUSA holdings in corporations doing business with Israel. The majority of the overtures being reviewed by the assembly's Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues oppose the one-sided divestment policy that has spawned worldwide opposition from Jewish groups. A few favor the...

In the coming days, leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA will take up a controversial issue – whether to divest from Israel. Why do these Presbyterians think as they do? Their critics overlook the obvious: It’s because of what’s being taught in some Presbyterian seminaries, where future church leaders are inculcated with the moral and religious foundations that shape their world views. Leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA take up an old obsession in the coming days: Israel. They’re expected to vote on whether to divest from some multinationals doing business there – a controversial process launched at last year’s...

A coalition of Jewish and Christian institutional investors - Jewish Voice for Peace, Sisters of Loretto, Mercy Investment Program, Sisters of Mercy, Maryknoll Sisters and Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers - joined in a resolution calling for the separation of the roles of CEO and Chairperson at Caterpillar, Inc. They say that they hope to encourage "corporate accountability." But what they really want is to scare the hell out of the corporation's management, from which they want action - against Israel. This coming Wednesday thousands of delegates to the Presbyterian General Assembly in Alabama will discuss the "violation of human rights...

It's the season for denominational conventions. We've already told you what's on the agenda of the Presbyterian Church (USA). But who will the Episcopalians be honoring at their General Convention, which runs June 13-21 in Columbus, OH? The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) will give its 2006 EPF John Nevin Sayre Award to the Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and Madeline Trichel, director of the Interfaith Peace Center in Columbus, Ohio. Here are some words from Rev. Ateek, the "peacemaker": 1989: "It has taken me years to accept the establishment of the...

Last October, American soldiers serving in Iraq stripped the dead body of a young man, tied it to the back of a humvee, and dragged it through the city. No such incident ever happened, of course. To publish such a story would be to slander America’s men and women in uniform, and we would be right to entertain questions about the motivations and prejudices of a person who would not only accept but repeat such a story. The story, however, is of a familiar type. Stories casting enemy soldiers as inhumane monsters capable not only of desecrating a dead body,...

Norman G. Finkelstein, who invariably introduces himself as the Jewish son of survivors of Nazi concentration camps, has joined the lobbying effort to get the Presbyterian Church (USA) to begin its one-sided policy of "phased selective divestment" of its holdings in corporations that do business with Israel. Finkelstein posted on his Web site a copy of a letter he sent to commissioners and delegates to the 217th General Assembly and thumbnail photographs of a group of Presbyterians packaging and mailing the letter, along with one of his books, Beyond Chutzbah. (Click the photos and they enlarge.) Frankelstein's Web site pictures...

...... Which leads us to the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). Two years ago PCUSA passed a resolution calling for "phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel." Apparently, this was not a resolution called for by the rank and file of the church, but by a number of radical left leaders. Not content with the classic leftist divestment tactic, elements of PCUSA, from the Chicago Middle East Task Force, met with leaders of the terrorist organization Hizbullah in Lebanon. Hizbullah, of course, is funded by Iran, does not recognize Israel’s existence, and is sworn to "the destruction of the...

US Presbyterian Leaders Challenge Church's Flawed Divestment Policy A press release from the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel: US PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS CHALLENGE CHURCH’S FLAWED DIVESTMENT POLICY AGAINST ISRAEL & CALL ON PC-USA 217TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO RESCIND IT Completing a five-day fact finding mission throughout Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, a group of eleven Presbyterian Church (USA) leaders announced today that the Church’s current policy to divest their $7 billion pension fund against the State of Israel is flawed and called on the PCUSA’s over 500 voting commissioners to rescind the policy at their upcoming General Assembly June...

"Liberation Theology" was the theological justification for Western church groups that backed Marxist revolution 20 and 30 years ago. Its influence waned with those failed revolutions, especially in Latin America, but it continues to shape intellectual life in the Middle East, as a tool against Israel. The Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center coordinates the anti-Israel advocacy of U.S. church groups. Sabeel guides and leads U.S. church delegations when they come to the Middle East, where they are exposed primarily to a pro-Palestinian perspective. When Sabeel conducts conferences in the U.S. or Canada, North American denominations host and promote the...

On the plane back from a recent conference in Israel, Presbyterian Pastor Will McGarvey met members of another Christian tour group. They had visited many Christian holy sites on their tour, but they did not travel to Bethlehem or to any Palestinian cities in the West Bank. "Some folks go over and see the holy sites and don't ever talk to a Palestinian," said McGarvey, sitting amid stacks of papers and books in his office at the Community Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg. "The Christian community in the United States is very divided when it comes to questions of Israel and...

As Presbyterians across America gear up for their biennial assembly next month, the legacy of the last such meeting is still roiling the Jewish community and the church’s own members. Two years ago, the Presbyterian Church USA passed a resolution calling for “phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.” Those who long have followed Jewish-Protestant relations weren’t surprised. “It was the culmination of decades - not years, but decades - of hostility toward Israel and Zionism, not by the rank-and-file members of these churches, but by some of the leadership,” said Rabbi A. James Rudin, senior interreligious adviser...

LOUISVILLE, KY—The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Council (GAC) approved a four-page document offering its "comment and advice" to the 2006 General Assembly on the sensitive issue of divestment from Israel. If the 2006 Assembly follows the advice adopted here on April 28, it would leave intact the controversial 2004 Assembly decision to pursue "a process of phased selective divestment in multinational corporations doing business in Israel." The denomination's Mission Responsibility through Investment (MRTI) Committee would remain free to recommend divestment from specific corporations in 2008 or beyond. (MRTI has indicated that it will make no divestment recommendations this year.)...

This past September, ten days after the last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip as part of Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, an unusual meeting took place in East Jerusalem. Seventeen representatives from various American Jewish organizations and from several American Protestant denominations filed in to the headquarters of Sabeel--a Palestinian "liberation theology center" headed by Palestinian Christian activist Rev. Naim Ateek, whose activities had become a source of intense controversy among his guests. Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor of the Anti-Defamation League confronted Ateek on his position that he did not accept Israel's right to exist. Ateek refused to repudiate it, quoting...

Two resolutions on the Israel/Palestine conflict were also offered in the Blue Book. Strangely, however, they seem to offer contradictory approaches to the peace process. The first resolution, A011, would affirm a two-state solution to the conflict, seek an end to violence, and call for all parties to return to the negotiating table rather than resort to unilateral action. Strangely enough, however, the resolution also demands that Israel withdraw from all its West Bank settlements-which would appear to be a unilateral action. There is no specific reciprocal concession asked of the Palestinian Authority. The second resolution, A012, is nothing but...

Coming up in June, the Presbyterian Church (USA) will be holding its 217th General Assembly. On the agenda will of course be the highly contentious decision from the last General Assembly to explore divestment against corporations perceived to be aiding in Israel's "occupation." I'll let the Presbyterian News Service take it from here: Commissioners, GA business to be divided among 15 committees Committee leaders for the eight-day Assembly, which starts on June 15 in Birmingham, AL, also were named this week by OGA [Office of the General Assembly] and Moderator Rick Ufford-Chase. Each committee will have elected commissioners as moderator...

Land Day: A Call for Divestment from IsraelBy Fayyad Sbaihat-Guest Columnist-Updated Mar 28, 2006, 05:46 pm Refer this article Print page March 30, 2006 is the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's national day of divestment action Israeli Apartheid - Time for the South African Treatment (Info Clearing House 02-02-2006) Fayyad Sbaihat On March 30th, 1976, Palestinians in the occupied Galilee rose up against the Israeli military in defense of their lands that were being expropriated and cleansed from their native Palestinian population. The army was confiscating land as part of a plan set forth by one of its generals known as the "Allon...

Liberal Jews do find a common language with liberal Christians on a host of social issues but when it comes to Israel they often part ways. American Evangelist Pat Robertson's pronouncement that Ariel Sharon's stroke was an act of Divine retribution for his abandonment of the Gaza settlements - though he subsequently apologized - was a frightening reminder of how extreme the views of those on the religious Right can be. Sadly, Robertson has something in common with some on the religious Right in Israel who have expressed similar sentiments. Yet, even as the Israeli Right can draw support from...

There is some really good news regarding the struggle against the divestment charade. A group of US Presbyterians have formed the Committee to End Divestment Now which features a forthright and systematic analysis of the larger issues, and a micro-analysis of church politics and procedural issues, with extensive details regarding the fallacies and errors involved. They conclude: These resolutions have shattered our interfaith relations with our Jewish friends. These resolutions have undone a half-century of positive efforts to improve interfaith relations, following our denomination’s less-than-impressive response to the Holocaust. Isolating Israel for punitive action, while not condemning terror-sponsoring states, means...

Diana Appelbaum has an important article in The American Thinker about the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA). It is important because of the timing. The General Assembly of the PCUSA is scheduled to convene June 15-22, 2006. It will be an opportunity to undo its notorious divestment resolution, which supporters and detractors are debating whether it is merely anti-Israel or truly anti-Semitic. The surprising thing, to many outside the PCUSA, is that the overwhelming majority of Presbyterians are not even anti-Israel. The surprising thing, to many inside, is how remarkably anti-Semitic their leadership is. Most Presbyterians, indeed, most Christians, would be...

With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA scheduled to convene in June for the first time since the 2004 GA passed a notorious anti-Israel divestment resolution, supporters and detractors of divestment are discussing whether the Church’s decision was anti-Semitic, or – somehow - anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. Curiously, despite the storm caused by the divestment vote, most Presbyterians remain unaware of the extent to which the PCUSA leadership has involved itself in old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitic alliances undertaken by the national church are particularly surprising in light of the well-known open-minded and unbiased attitudes of the overwhelming...

Los Angeles -- The University of California Regents, citing the continuing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, voted unanimously Thursday to divest UC of tens of millions of dollars of securities from nine foreign companies doing business in that troubled African nation. The regents' decision represents a significant step beyond divestment actions taken by other colleges, UC officials said, because the university plans to shed both its direct and indirect holdings in the nine publicly traded firms. ...University officials refused Thursday to indicate the approximate dollar amount of the investments to be shed or what percentage of the university's...

It’s been two weeks since the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) held its Fifth Annual Divestment Conference at Georgetown University.  A few articles have briefly discussed some of the seminars at the conference and what outwardly occurred there. But the major thing missing in all these reports -- that this article will reveal -- was the importance of what occurred behind the scenes just before, after and during the Georgetown divestment conference that really shows the current state of the ISM as a movement on US campuses. But before doing that, a little history is in order: Three years ago, I went...