What's BDS you ask? The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement).
"UCC aligned with the BDS movement, which opposes dialogue between Israeli and Arab youth."
Legal Insurrection "The United Church of Christ recently passed a resolution adopting part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) platform.
"The resolution purported to demand divestment from the “occupation,” but in fact a late amendment broadened it substantially to include virtually every Israeli company, as I explained in my prior analysis. (Another resolution, declaring Israeli guilty of the Crime of Apartheid, had a split vote short of the 2/3 needed for passage.)
"Throughout the committee-level and annual meeting debate and presentations about divestment, aligning UCC with BDS was repeatedly stressed as part of a peaceful process of ending the conflict.
The anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace played a central role in Jew-washing the nature of the BDS movement, allowing BDS supporters at UCC to say – hey, look, there are Jews who support what we are doing." . . .
Bear in mind that these Jews are Liberals first. They just happen to be Jewish, but no big deal.
"If UCC’s delegates and leadership thought aligning UCC with BDS was a move towards peace, it was severely duped. Here’s a perfect example of how BDS is against peaceful reconciliation." . . .
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"Who could be against Israeli and Arab students learning to interact without guns or threat? Who would think fostering mutual understanding in the younger generation is a bad thing?
"Who would boycott such a peaceful and peace-promoting project which is what the UCC claimed was its goal?
"The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, that’s who.
"As we reported in 2014, BDS Movement boycotts online peace discussions among Israeli and Arab youth:' . . .
Episcopal Church rejects Israel boycott resolutions Imagine that.
. . . "Its House of Bishops defeated the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) resolution brought to the vote at the church’s 78th General Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah." . . .
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