The infamously antisemitic US Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has gone further than ever in its provocation against the State of Israel. At its 225th General Assembly, it voted to declare Israel as an apartheid state and created Nakba Remembrance Day. The PCUSA casts no judgments on the Palestinian Authority’s Pay-For-Slay program, or with the original charters of the major Palestinian organizations, all of which call for the obliteration of Israel.
The PCUSA has an unsavory history of smearing Israel and actively supporting Palestinian jihadists. Back in February, the Stated Clerk of the PCUSA characterized the so-called “‘occupation’ of Palestinian lands by Israel as ’21st century slavery.‘” In 2014, Shurat Hadin (the Israel Law Center) filed charges against the PCUSA for having ties to Hizballah. According to the law center, the PCUSA “breached its tax-exempt status as a religious organization by violating of the United States tax code through its unlawful political lobbying and contact with Hezbollah, a US-designated terrorist organization.” That same year, the Jerusalem Post reported on a Presbyterian study guide that advocated for the annihilation of Israel and encouraged Holocaust denial. The PCUSA should be held accountable as an accessory to terrorism.
Beyond the Jew-hatred and devoted support of the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church presented “Christians who support Israel as dangerous and a threat to Middle East peace.” Not the Iranian regime, but Zionist Christians.
The committee also “passed a resolution directing Church leadership bodies to designate May 15 as ‘Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day.’” Nakba Day for Palestinians means the “day of catastrophe” when Israel was born in 1948. The hate, violence and rage against Jews began long before Israel declared statehood — a fact that the Presbyterian Church chooses to ignore.
Christian propagandists are useful idiots in service of the Palestinian cause of jihad. The flames of antisemitism have fully engulfed the Presbyterian Church.
“US Presbyterian Church: Israel is apartheid state, creates Nakba Day,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2022:
The US Presbyterian Church voted to declare Israel an apartheid state and establish a Nakba Remembrance Day, as well as passing two other resolutions highly critical of Israel on Tuesday at the American religious body’s 225th General Assembly.
“Israel’s laws, policies and practices regarding the Palestinian people fulfill the international legal definition of apartheid.”
US Presbyterian Church 2022 Resolution
“Israeli Apartheid” compared to Holocaust
The US Presbyterian Church’s International Engagement committee voted overwhelmingly to recognize that “Israel’s laws, policies and practices regarding the Palestinian people fulfill the international legal definition of apartheid,” as they had determined that Palestinians were systematically oppressed through inhuman acts for the objective of racial domination.The resolution claimed that there were two sets of laws for Israelis and Palestinians, which are preferential for the former and oppressive to the latter. It also asserted that Palestinian land and water were stolen for use by “Jewish-only settlements” and that Palestinians were denied freedom of residence and movement, living in “separate reserves and ghettos,” echoing language used in the resolution passed on the same subject at the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) state convention on June 18.
The church claimed that Non-Jewish Arabs living in Israel and the disputed territories have “an inferior status” and Palestinians are unable to participate in the “political, social, economic and cultural life of their country.”
“This overture is pursued with the hope it will lead to a peaceful reconciliation for the people of Israel and Palestine similar to that which occurred in South Africa when apartheid was internationally acknowledged,” the resolution explained as the rationale behind the vote.
“Christians spoke out in the 1950s against segregation in the United States and later against apartheid in South Africa. They must again raise their voices and condemn Israel’s discrimination against Palestinians and give a name to the crime against humanity that this discrimination represents, the crime of apartheid,” it said….
maria says
I will never more support presbytarian church in the US.They are racists like hitler
mortimer says
Agree. What has got into them? This is Jew hatred. Jews were deemed worthy of having their own homeland. So were Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Czechs, and many other recognized ethnic groups around the world. Why is it ‘racism’ only when Jews have a homeland, but not when Lithuanians do?
somehistory says
If my father still lived, I doubt very seriously that he would still say he is Presbyterian or enter one of their churches. He was a serious student of history and he listened intently to the news. He would know better.
These people are supporting terror.
Hoi Polloi says
I grew up Presbyterian, following in a centuries-long family tradition. I was extremely fortunate to have received that start in life.
Since PCUSA became the governing body, it’s been one long march toward hell. One church we attended left and became independent, but PCUSA has charged congregations substantial sums for release. Imagine having property built by members over centuries that you now must “purchase” from a hellishly corrupt body.
Davidson College has been making noise, after being founded and funded by Presbyterians, that it’s unhappy with its church ties and this is behavior reflected in its associated church.
I haven’t attended a Presbyterian service in years because this hostility towards Christians and Christianity is rampant in PCUSA. It’s not anti-semitism alone; it’s fundamental evil at work. My father and grandparents shed tears.
somehistory says
My parents took us when we were just little kids, and had Sunday school…which actually taught things, from the Bible, not just coloring and stuff; and I sang in the choir when I was five years old I hold fond memories of those days.
I feel that this “modern’ day group has run afoul of the teachings of Christ.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, we were taught from the Bible, but it was always enjoyable, instructive, and enlightening.
BexarKat says
Like the UCC, Jew-hatred by another name.
Roland says
The Church has evidently been taken over by hard-left activists. They are impervious to criticism because of the omertà imposed by intersectionality and critical race theory. You must accept the whole package or be shamed and ostracized. Most Church members are not looking for confrontation over an issue of marginal personal importance to them.
The Church must be politically and legally confronted from the outside by American pro-Israel groups. Besides the admirable Israeli lawfare organization Shurat HaDin, who else has challenged the Church?
Kenneth J Johnson says
This from So called American Christians.???
KEN
mortimer says
If I were a Presbyterian, I would have to submit my resignation from that denomination for the following reasons:
On Tuesday, by a vote of 28 for and only three against, The Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, an umbrella group representing churches across the country claiming over 1.7 million members, passed several anti-Israel resolutions including one that labeled Israel an apartheid state and compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi’s genocidal treatment of the Jews.
Other false accusations made by the resolution were:
The resolution falsely accuses Israel of stealing Palestinian water supplies “for Jewish-only settlements”
Establishing two sets of laws, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians, which give preferential treatment to Israeli Jews and oppressive treatment to Palestinians,
Denying the right to “freedom of residence to Palestinians.”
It accused Israel of “dividing the population along racial lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos for the Palestinians.”
https://www.israel365news.com/271016/presbyterian-church-compares-israel-to-nazis-calls-christian-zionism-idolaty-and-heresy/
Hoi Polloi says
PCUSA membership has been declining steeply for years but this means nothing to them.
1990: 2,856,713
2021: 1,193,770
Any true Christian leadership would have given its all to reverse this decline, but these individuals plow perversely ahead with their policies and pronouncements.
Infidel says
President Trump, who proudly declared that he was Presbyterian in 2016, quietly reclassified himself as a non-denominational Christian some years ago. I’m sure this woke church was happy to lose him
Hoi Polloi says
Doubtless.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
What a daffy-looking group of people. Daffy Duck, eat your heart out.
jca reid says
Strange apartheid State:- Allows Muslims to vote, enter the Parliament, attend the same Universities, access to the same as the Israeli Jews & have the same Human & Civil Rights as anybody else in Israel. Strange that these, “tolerant” Christians don’t ask the Algerian Delegation at the UN in NYC. They really slagged off the Israeli Delegation but, were totally silenced when asked this question, “Please inform the UN how are the Algerian Jews getting along?”
Complete stunned silence.
If there was a God, he would have wiped us all out long ago.
Infidel says
Yeah, it’s a form of Apartheid that would be unrecognizable by the Bothas, had they been around or visiting the world in a time capsule
GreekEmpress says
Wow! I’m dangerous and a threat to Middle East peace! Guess I finally got my 15 minutes of fame—🙄
Stan says
In a bad mood already so forgive my language. Presbyterian USA should be listed with ANTIFA and the other anti-freedom organizations. Apartheid? The millions of reasonable Presbyterians should demand a reversal and resignation of the PUSA leadership.
Infidel says
So how many Palestinian Arabs are members of this church, as opposed to others, that’s motivating this church to act like it’s the church of Hamas?
gravenimage says
Most likely “wokeness”…
gravenimage says
Presbyterian Church USA declares Israel an ‘apartheid state,’ creates ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’
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I’m so sorry to hear about this ugly stupidity.
This is calumny against Israel–it is also moronic beyond that. What do these useful idiots think is happening to Christians under the “Palestinian” Muslim heel?
“Pray for Christians threatened with violence in the territories under the control of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas”
https://cufi.org/issue/pray-christians-threatened-violence-territories-control-palestinian-authority-hamas/
“Approximately 40,000 Christians live under the rule of either Hamas in Gaza or the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Life in these territories is often very difficult, and sometimes deadly, for Christians. Radical terrorist groups and extremist individuals know that the governing authorities will not punish them for attacking or harassing Christians.
“The situation for believers in the Palestinian territories is even more complicated because of the political conflict with Israel. Speaking out in defense of Israel can get a Christian killed…”
bill says
The so called Christian church has always been antisemitic to varying degrees. Ironic, considering that the alleged Jesus was a Jew himself. I was just reading about how during the Crusades one Peter the Hermit
declared that as the Jews were already enemies of Christianity, the Christians should deal with the Jews locally. His preaching incited multiple large massacres of Jews who had been living peacefully in France for many generations