Leftist Episcopal Presiding Bishop Rejects Anti-Israel Divestment
Leftist Episcopal Presiding Bishop Rejects Anti-Israel Divestment
By Mark D. Tooley
www.theird.org
March 30, 2012
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preaches.
While the United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church (USA) denominations will ponder anti-Israel divestment at their conventions this year, the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop opposes divestment.
"The Episcopal Church does not endorse divestment or boycott," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori recently told a Los Angeles group. "It's not going to be helpful to endorse divestment or boycotts of Israel. It will only end in punishing Palestinians economically."
Although often left-wing and politically correct, the Episcopal Church's chief prelate and other officials, maybe mindful of interfaith relations with Jewish leaders, have typically steered away from the worst anti-Israel zeal. Unlike the Methodist and Presbyterians, the Episcopalians will not seriously consider divestment at their own convention this year.
Speaking to a Middle East Peacemakers luncheon, Schori was obliged to make the usual calls for "dialogue" and to imply moral equivalence between Israel's struggle to exist versus Palestinian calls for its eradication. "We can urge Israel to freeze the settlement activity," she suggested, according to Episcopal News Service. "We can urge the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist. We can condemn violence everywhere."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mark D. Tooley
www.theird.org
March 30, 2012
While the United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church (USA) denominations will ponder anti-Israel divestment at their conventions this year, the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop opposes divestment.
"The Episcopal Church does not endorse divestment or boycott," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori recently told a Los Angeles group. "It's not going to be helpful to endorse divestment or boycotts of Israel. It will only end in punishing Palestinians economically."
Although often left-wing and politically correct, the Episcopal Church's chief prelate and other officials, maybe mindful of interfaith relations with Jewish leaders, have typically steered away from the worst anti-Israel zeal. Unlike the Methodist and Presbyterians, the Episcopalians will not seriously consider divestment at their own convention this year.
Speaking to a Middle East Peacemakers luncheon, Schori was obliged to make the usual calls for "dialogue" and to imply moral equivalence between Israel's struggle to exist versus Palestinian calls for its eradication. "We can urge Israel to freeze the settlement activity," she suggested, according to Episcopal News Service. "We can urge the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist. We can condemn violence everywhere."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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