Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, president of the UMC’s Council of Bishops, has released a statement defending her decision to join more than a dozen other Christian leaders in sending a letter to Congress, urging an investigation of possible violations by Israel of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and the U.S. Export Control Act.
Some Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee and Union for Reform Judaism, were upset enough about the letter to cancel a scheduled meeting of the Christian-Jewish Roundtable, formed to promote interfaith dialogue about the Middle East. And some United Methodists, in comments posted to online articles about the letter, have questioned Bishop Wenner’s decision to be a signatory.
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