Divestment Issues

Two United Methodist gatherings urge selective divestment from Israel

July 14, 2005 By United Methodist News Service

http://www.umc.org/site/c.gjJTJbMUIuE/b.886089/k.A105/Two_United_Methodist_gatherings_urge_selective_divestment_from_Israel.htm

New England Conference UMC resolution

http://www.neumc.org/news_detail.asp?PKValue=60

UCC Penn West Conference resolution 2005

http://www.ucc.org/synod/resolutions/gs25-15.pdf

National Council of Churches statement on barriers

http://www.nccmiddleeast.blogspot.com/

UM General Board of Church and Society

http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/pp.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=860373

http://www.walktheroadtopeace.org/

American Jewish Committee press release

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.851561/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7B2FCFCF66-6225-4BFA-A66F-79EC4B59B0FE%7D&notoc=1

Haaretz - Israel newspaper http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

Perspective article on Divestment Snowball

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/624571.html

Standwithus.com http://standwithus.com/default.asp

UCC Church Divestment Vote

http://standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=312

http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=355

A European blogger perspective on Israel / Palestinian issues as debated by Michael Lerner (Tikkun Magazine March/April 2005) and Mazin Qumsiyeh (human rights web) http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/09/rabbi-lerner-mazin-qumsiyeh-virtual.html

Should Churches Divest? Sojourners August 2005

The Presbyterian Church (USA): A case study by Don Wagner

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0508&article=050823

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Some views on the Israel/Palestine conflict

<>End the Occupation - Northern Illinois Conference UMC ETO  http://www.cnep.org/churchorgs/methodist/nic-eto.htm  uses resources national ETO organization. http://www.endtheoccupation.org/ and ETO Coalition -  Northern Illinois  http://www.angelfire.com/hero/eto/main.html

Bitterlemons-international.org is an internet forum for an array of world perspectives on the Middle East and its specific concerns.  http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/about.php

Judd Kennedy, William and Mary College, (08)  excerpts from Kennedy’s West Bank journals.

Ericka Beckman writing about Palestine "caged bird" in VOX,  an electronic newsletter representing a unified Christian voice of Church related organizations (CROs) the humanitarian situation on the ground in Palestinian occupied territories http://www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=123