There’s a controversial Presbyterian Church (USA) — referred to as the PC(USA) — document floating around that may cause unease among those individuals and institutions standing in support of Israel. It seems that some in the denomination, which is a specific denomination within the Presbyterian Church and claims to have 11,000 congregations and 2.3 million members nationwide, are taking a hard-line stance on what they‘re calling Israel’s “apartheid” policies against the Palestinian people.
A document, entitled “Recognition that Israel’s Laws, Policies, and Practices Constitute Apartheid Against the Palestinian People,” will be presented at the denomination’s General Assembly this summer. The proposal, which uses the controversial word “apartheid” 91 times, says that “Israel’s laws, policies, and practices constitute apartheid against the Palestinian people” and it urges the church body to intervene to “seek appropriate ways to bring an end to Israeli apartheid.”
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