More like Presbyterian dhimmitude. More on the Presbyterian church’s anti-Israel resolutions, from Richard Baehr in FrontPage. The Presbyterian church, like so many others, has no idea that Israel faces the same jihad that non-Muslims are facing in Indonesia, Philippines, Kashmir, Chechnya, Nigeria, etc. The alternative to Israel is a maximalist, totalitarian Sharia state that will be just as bad for Presbyterians in the area as it will be for Jews.
Jewish liberals received a shock last week. The liberal Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) declared war on Israel at is annual General Assembly meeting, approving a divestment campaign from Israel with 87 percent of the vote, casting the Holy Land as the new South Africa. The shock was doubly painful since liberal Jews believe that liberal churches are supposed to be their allies in all kinds of common fights….
The leftist Presbyterians apparently thinks that now is the time to pile on Israel and force it to “behave better” with the Palestinians. The Church strangely did not pass any resolutions at their General Assembly this year about the slaughter of black Muslims in the Sudan by Arabs, and they never passed any resolutions in prior years, when the Sudanese Arabs chose to slaughter black Christians. They were silent when the Rwanda genocide occurred, as well. But hey, what’re a few million black African lives when Muslim olive trees are being cut down near the “green line”?
Needless to say, the Presbyterians” resolution against Israel is entirely silent on the subject of Palestinian terrorism or suicide bombing, or the incitement to martyrdom and Jew-killing in the Palestinian media, mosques, summer camps and official government statements.
Like other liberal Christian churches (the Lutherans, the Episcopalians, the Unitarians, the United Church of Christ, the Quakers) the hatred and condemnation of Israel has grown so strong that advocates for Israel are not permitted to make presentations to these congregations anymore. If Jews want to speak abut Israel, they have to be from the far-Left, and they must come to trash Israel (and help bury it). On the other hand, any representative of the International Solidarity Movement is sure to draw a full house and be warmly welcomed….
For years, the Israel-haters have tried to link Israel to South Africa, and even more outrageously, to the Nazis. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has now legitimized this slander. For this, they should be ashamed — or simply shamed.