Methodists Cut Ties With "Anti-Israel" Group

United Methodists, voting at their General Conference, have called on their church’s mission agency to withdraw from a group founded to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Critics see the group as more anti-Israel than pro-peace.

The petition asking for the agency’s withdrawal from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation passed 478-318.

It called the U.S. campaign a “one-sided political coalition” that seeks to isolate Israel “while overlooking anti-Israel aggression.”