Proponents of using economic pressure to force Israel out of the West Bank may have lost a key battle this week -- by a hair’s breadth -- but they have no intention of giving up. That’s the message from backers of a divestment motion at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which late Thursday night rejected a proposal to divest from companies selling equipment to the Israeli military in the West Bank. The 333-331 vote, with two abstentions, at the church’s Pittsburgh gathering …More

The head of the Presbyterian Church in Canada has blamed "Jewish and Zionist lobbies" for Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. Addressing a noon-hour reflection at a Toronto church this month, the Rev. Rick Horst, national moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, said "Palestinians are daily harassed and abused and treated with indignities that are simply not allowable under international law, yet it continues to persist because of frankly, the power of the Jewish and Zionist lobbies both in America and …More