7/31/2004 08:17:20 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

So much for visiting churches affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

By the overwhelming vote of 431-62, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) recently adopted a resolution calling for a divestment campaign from corporations doing business with Israel.

Even more perplexing is that the denomination holds $7 billion in assets in communist China. The money quotes

The church is not calling for divestment of its $7 billion portfolio from China, despite China's denial of the most basic political and religious rights and its particularly harsh treatment of followers of Falun Gong. It is not condemning Russia, even though Russia's policies in Chechnya are by any human-rights standard atrocious. It is not even calling for economic sanctions against Syria or Iran, whose human-rights records for their own people are egregious and whose Jewish citizens are denied the basic civil rights and liberties afforded to all Israelis, including its Arab citizens, some of whom even serve in the Knesset.

Priorities are beyond misplaced. I hate to say it, but the General Assembly is either extraordinary myopic, ignorant, or anti-semitic. I say just take one's pick - they all arrive at the same place.

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