April 2012
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Investment in Palestine is no substitute for...
Below is an article I wrote for the newspaper of the Love Thy Neighbor coalition (the “liberals”) at the UM conference. A subcommittee of the church’s Financial Administration Committee voted Friday to totally transform the petition to divest from the Israeli occupation into a pollyannish call for “positive investment” in Palestine. On Saturday, the full committee rejected an attempt to return to...
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A moment of truth: United Methodists prepare to...
When I am in the United States, and not in Gaza, I sometimes have difficulty identifying activism that will actually make a difference on behalf of Palestinians. When the call went out for volunteers to travel to Tampa to speak to delegates at the United Methodist Church General Conference, where a resolution in favor of divestment from three companies that facilitate the occupation was heading...
