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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

Presbyterian Church

Screen capture of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh. (Google maps)
February 28, 2019, 8:46 am
Pittsburgh Presbyterian racial justice summit includes anti-Israel presentations
Speakers at Theological Seminary’s gathering reportedly claim Zionism is an ‘anti-Semitic lie’ and that there is no Jewish connection to the land of Israel
By Marcy Oster
Dexter Van Zile
May 9, 2018, 3:44 pm
Dexter Van Zile
Hijacking the Titanic
‘Presbyterian’ has become synonymous with Jew-hatred and unreasonable hostility toward Israel for good reason
Michael Gizzi
May 18, 2016, 2:15 pm
Michael Gizzi
That ‘largely non-violent’ Intifada
An erroneous, biased Presbyterian Church committee report on Israel and the Palestinians toes the BDS line
Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)
February 3, 2016, 6:43 pm
Presbyterian group promotes two-state solution in pamphlet
Grassroots ‘Presbyterians for Middle East Peace’ aims to counter growing anti-Israel activity in church
By JTA
State Department Spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the State Department on January 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)
January 9, 2016, 12:53 am
US condemns Israel’s plan to expand West Bank settlement bloc
State Department says adding compound to Gush Etzion will ‘only make achieving a two-state solution more difficult’
By AP and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left), with Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi (right) in the Etzion Bloc settlement on September 30, 2015 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 6, 2016, 9:06 am
Ya’alon said to approve construction of new settlement
Plot of land south of Etzion Bloc includes former church compound purchased in secret by Christian activists
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left), with Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi (right) in the Etzion Bloc settlement on September 30, 2015 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
October 1, 2015, 11:27 am
Minister said to plan adding secretive new settlement to bloc
Moshe Ya’alon to expand Etzion settlement area south of Jerusalem to include former church compound next to al-Aroub
By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2015, 12:13 pm
Defense chief said to okay West Bank church’s conversion to Jewish compound
Ya’alon reportedly allows right-wing group to refurbish abandoned Presbyterian complex near Etzion settlement bloc, but no permit requested for habitation
By Judah Ari Gross
Irving Moskowitz speaking at Beit Orot, November 2011. (CC BY-SA Mazel 123, Wikimedia Commons)
May 28, 2015, 4:58 pm
US millionaire ‘hid purchase of West Bank property’
Philanthropist Irving Moskowitz said to have used shell companies to conceal plan for outpost in abandoned church near Hebron
By Judah Ari Gross
An outpost established in the Etzion Bloc after the killing of three Israeli teens in June (photo credit: Gush Etzion Regional Council)
May 22, 2015, 7:10 pm
Settler said set to turn West Bank church into new outpost
Planned settlement in former Presbyterian hospital complex near Hebron intended to boost Israeli presence in southern Etzion Bloc
By JTA
Yitz Greenberg
June 26, 2014, 5:19 pm
Yitz Greenberg
To our Presbyterian brothers and sisters
Turn from the path of delegitimation and join us in working for a just peace for two peoples in two nations
Kenneth Waltzer
June 21, 2014, 3:49 pm
Kenneth Waltzer
Meet the Finklers
On the ‘brazen few’ progressive Jews who say that all in Israel/Palestine is completely Israel’s fault
Members from Jincheon Jungang Presbyterian Church attend a service at their church in Jincheon, South Korea, Monday, February 17, 2014, the day after a Sinai terror group targeted a bus filled with Korean members of the church at Taba, Egypt. (photo credit: AP/Yonhap, Kim Hyung-woo)
June 4, 2014, 6:07 am
As Presbyterians again weigh divestment, Jewish groups lobby, warn and worry
US church narrowly voted down proposal in 2012; successful motion this year could rupture relations with Jewish community
By Ron Kampeas
Noam E. Marans
June 2, 2014, 9:39 pm
Noam E. Marans
Presbyterians, BDS and Israel — here we go again
Hoping that at its upcoming General Assembly the Church will reject anti-Zionism and get back to pursuing peace
Illustrative photo of clergymen gathering at Manger Square outside the Church of Nativity for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 24, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
March 28, 2014, 7:29 pm
Jewish groups resume dialogue with mainline churches
Relationship was strained in 2012, when church leaders called on Congress to probe Israeli human rights abuses and cut aid
By JTA
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