Presbyterians Lambaste Israel, Shy From Criticizing Hamas

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The 2018 Presbyterian General Assembly voted in favor of several resolutions that called out Israel for its contributions to violence against “Palestinians,” but that gave a free pass to the terror group Hamas.

Then PGA met in St. Louis, Missouri, between June 16 and June 23.

Presbyterians, seen here at their 2014 meeting, voted in 2018 in St. Louis to chastise Israel for violence against “Palestinians,” but also to give Hamas a free pass.

And while Israel was openly chastised, members actually voted down the inclusion of language in a resolution that would’ve cast a negative light on Hamas.

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The Daily Caller has more:

The 2018 Presbyterian General Assembly passed several resolutions criticizing Israel for violence and alleged human rights violations and rejected language critical of Palestinians and Hamas.

The 223rd PGA, which met in St. Louis Missouri from June 16 to 23, passed 11 resolutions concerning Israel Friday evening, many of which criticized Israel for alleged human rights violations and conflict with Palestinians, according to HAARETZ. One of the passed resolutions concerning Israel condemned the killing of Palestinians in violent protests along the Gaza, Israel border but refrained from mentioning the role of Hamas in those deaths.

“The church should speak against all discourse that inspires violence in Gaza. Such incitement is not restricted to one side,” Jeff DeYoe of Peace River Presbytery, who proposed the amendment to remove references to Hamas, said according to PCUSA. “Providing language without mentioning a specific group, is more than sufficient that the PC(USA) does not condone any language that incites violence on either side.”

The resolution condemning the border violence, once stripped of the words “by Hamas,” passed by a vote of 438 to 34.

Other resolutions asked RE/MAX, LLC to end the sale and rental of Jewish settlement properties in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and encouraged Presbyterians to engage with Jewish colleagues “on the issue of Israeli occupation of Palestine,”

The General Assembly also passed a resolution demanding that Israel fully comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, asserting that Israeli laws currently favor Jewish citizens over Muslim and Christian citizens.

The assembly struck down a proposed resolution “For the Protection of the Children of Israel and Palestine” on the grounds that it on criticized the treatment of children under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and did not criticize Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children enough. They also struck down a resolution to end the Presbyterian denomination’s label of Israel as a “colonial project.”

The assembly’s actions concerning Israel drew the ire of The American Jewish Committee.

“The Church remains obsessively critical of Israel in its national utterances,” AJC’s director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, Rabbi Noam Marans, said in a statement according to HAARETZ. “For many years and in myriad ways, the PCUSA has gone beyond legitimate criticism of Israel and embraced demonization of the Jewish state.”

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Leroy Whitby
Leroy Whitby
5 years ago

PCA, Presbyterian Church in America, is a more traditional denomination. They split off in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The once large “mainline” denominations aren’t so mainline any more.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago
Reply to  Leroy Whitby

Tell it, brother. Kinda tired of being linked with the ‘main denomination’.

Leroy Whitby
Leroy Whitby
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

Our daughter had a Catholic friend whose family worried we were liberal fruitcakes because of the PCUSA cultural marxist shenanigans. It does grate.

Drifter12
Drifter12
5 years ago

“Violence against Hamas”? Presbyterian church hierarchy, are you listening to yourself? You and the Catholic Pope seem to be from the same church…

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Shouldn’t they care more about the hundreds of thousands of Christians being persecuted and attacked by Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East?

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Haters gonna hate. These folks need to let the scriptures speak for themselves instead of forcing it into their systematic grid…

YancyHomes1
YancyHomes1
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Right on. Shame on this group for this action.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Taking your replacement Theology to its logical extreme eh PGA? Shame on you all…

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Presbyterians are the daughters of the whore Catholic Church, which itself sides with the Palestinians. They both wear the same “fish” garbs and practice the same pagan ceremonies and both DARE not speak against the Palestinians.

Why? I dunno why, I just know WHAT IS.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago

So the Presbyterians hate the Jews.

What else is new – and really, when all is said and done, who cares?

The Palestinians will continue their long journey to oblivion, and the state of Israel will go from strength to strength.

The Presbyterian General Assembly can pass resolutions from now to Kingdom Come – es gehts nicht.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago

Jee. I didn’t know I was supposed to hate Jews. Darnit. Wrong again.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

You must be in high school, right?

Enjoy these years – they’re the best!

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago

Not quite sure what I said to get that tossed my way. I’m pushing 80, have an MSSM from Univ. of Denver and still consult in quality management occasionally. How r u doing, Mikey?

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

Just fine, thanks.

Still, you were correct to take umbrage at my initial response, the consequence of a misreading on my part.

The mistake is mine.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago

And you, sir, are a gentleman. No harm, no foul.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

Thank you.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago

As a born Presbyterian (but not PCUSA) just what is ‘fish’ garb?

mztore
mztore
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

Same here. In fact my Grandfather was a minister, but I left all organized religion when I found out that they are all humans and all have the same

frailties as everyone else. Nobody has to go to church to be a believer or a Christian , and going to a “church” doesn’t make anyone better than another. The folks that go around claiming “I’m a Christian” are the folks to avoid. It should be how one lives, not what one says.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

The silly open hat (forgot the technical name) that represents the open mouth of a fish. Came from a guy/king (I think) that put a giant fish cut open and draped it on his head as some kind of fish god. Look it up on the Internet.

Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs
5 years ago

I learn something new every day! That one’s a doozy.

Eric
Eric
5 years ago

They are not real Christians, is the language of my “annual statement” now issued here, on the PCUSA. They follow Obama more than Jesus, who btw was Jewish and will return the same way he left the mount of olives outside of the Jewish Capitol of Jerusalem.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  Eric

Well said.The Church isn’t a club or organization it’s not even a building. It’s composed of individuals that belong to Jesus Christ (slaves to His righteousness), that carefully study His scriptures to show themselves approved. Major organizations that call themselves the church always attract folks who are more system and politically oriented than Christian. They will tell you they are Presbyterian, Baptist, Roman Catholic, etc before saying they’re followers of Christ. In other words, as you said, not real Christ-ians…

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Amen.

Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs
5 years ago

It should be noted that these resolutions do not actually represent the views of the majority of members of the Presbyterian denomination in the USA. The official Church hierarchy has been hijacked by a tiny, yet dedicated, group of Jew-haters, using much the same BDS-inspired techniques that academic-professional and student groups have tried. Yes, it’s despicable, and worrisome, but in perspective, it’s just a few ranting infantile crybabies.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/06/06/will-a-shrinking-protestant-church-obsess-against-israel-again/

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago
Reply to  Michael Jacobs

WHICH Presb. denomination are you talking about? Certainly not the PCA.

Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

These shenanigans are going on in the Presbyterian Church USA, which I understand is distinct from (and much more “progressive”-minded than) the similarly-named Presbyterian Church of America. Here’s a Wikipedia article on PCUSA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_(USA)

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago
Reply to  Michael Jacobs

You understand correctly. The article even mentions the OPC (OrthodoxPC) and PCA in passing, and states that the PCA organized in 1973 (I thot it was somewhat earlier) by a breakaway group of Prez. ministers that were turned off by the way the PCUSA was becoming more and more liberal. God bless those guys.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago

The PC(USA) is, unfortunately, the main Presbyterian body in America. Please do not confuse them with the PCA (Presb. Churches in America), which broke off from them decades ago. My parents left the former in the ’50s for just this type of garbage.

Mike
Mike
5 years ago

The Presbyterian Church- Creating it’s own Nakba (disaster or catastrophe) which like the Palestinians, is, or will be their own undoing.
This “religious ungodly secular body” is certainly NOT in any way or definition a defining “light” to the world through their actions. They might as well sign on with the Southern Poverty Law Center as it’s additional mouthpiece.

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