"US Lutherans consider Israel boycott"
By Haviv Rettig
Aug. 15, 2007
JERUSALEM POST
Full article is on the Web at:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1186557457886
Excerpts are below:
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which has almost five million members in the US, took a step toward a partial boycott of Israeli goods at its 2007 Churchwide Assembly in Chicago last week.
On Saturday, the assembly, the church's top legislative authority, passed a resolution calling to work toward a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urging investment in the Palestinian Authority.
The assembly then urged "consideration of refusing to buy goods or invest in activities taking place in Israeli settlements, and a review of other economic options," according to Bishop Christopher Epting, the presiding bishop's deputy for ecumenical and interfaith relations, according to the Episcopal Life Online Web site.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's own news service did not provide information on the content of that motion.
According to the Pondering Pastor blog, Saturday's debate on the resolution picked "up with an amendment to call upon the ELCA to underscore the call for economic initiatives by this church and its members in the ['Peace not Walls'] campaign...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center blasted what it called the "mixed message" of the assembly - rejecting divestiture but "studying" a boycott.
"This marks the first time a mainline American Protestant church has moved toward a possible boycott of Israel," said the center's Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper...."
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Israel & Apartheid South Africa were intimate allies.
They invaded Angola together. Here they are, meeting in Occupied Jerusalem.
More details at:
1967: SNCC Supports Palestine Freedom movement.
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) newsletter, June-July 1967.
2-page article.
(The same year, the U.S. Department of Defense claimed that:
"SNCC can no longer be considered a civil rights group. It has become a racist organization with black supremacy ideals and an expressed hatred for whites.")
Both pages posted in this Blog's archives at May 17, 2007.
"Appeal by Black Americans Against United States Support of the Zionist Government"
In the "New York Times", November 1, 1970.
It reports that the Israeli Air Force Commander was already lecturing at the South African Air Force College in September 1967.
See below:
Anti-Apartheid movement poster from the 1970's
It says "Zionism & Apartheid are Racism! They Must be Destroyed!"
Israeli Occupation soldiers kidnap girl in Hebron.
Congressman admits it: $300 Billion Went to Israel from the U.S. Congress
"I believe the United States has no truer friend in the Middle East than Israel. I have been in Congress for 50 years, and during my tenure I have proudly helped to move more than $300 billion worth of American aid to Israel."
--Article by Congressman John Dingell
"Arab American News"
August 5, 2006
Another Palestinian Funeral, in Gaza City, 2007.
$300 Billion to Israel = Mass Murder in Occupied Palestine.
Posted in this Blog's archives at May 18, 2007.
Your $300 Billion to Israel: See what it does.
Israeli border police and soldiers constantly terrorize Occupied Palestine.
Posted in this Blog's archives at May 18, 2007.
Your $300 Billion to Israel: See what it does.
Israeli soldiers invading Occupied Palestine, again and again.
1968: I卐RAELI military parade is confronted by this march, in Occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds)
Posted in this Blog's archives at May 18, 2007.
1936: Palestine revolts against British and Zionist occupation
Posted in this Blog's archives at May 18, 2007.
On Nov. 8, 2000, ten days after this photo was taken, Israeli troops shot and killed this boy, 13-year-old Fares Udah.
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