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Jerusalem - NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem based research institute, has released evidence that anti-Jewish prejudice was prominent among the internal church advocates for boycott and divestment (BDS) efforts. The Israel-Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), a church affiliated activist group centrally responsible for lobbying the church to divest from companies that do business with Israel and publisher of the highly controversial booklet, Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study, also promoted antisemitism on its Facebook page.
"The IPMN's Facebook page is in fact a hate site operating under the protective wings of the Presbyterian Church," said Yitzhak Santis, NGO Monitor's Chief Programs Officer. "None of the antisemitic postings were repudiated by the IPMN leadership or other members of this Facebook group. Several Presbyterian Church senior staff members are also members of this group, and they remained silent."
IPMN members have contributed numerous postings in a "closed but not secret" Facebook group expressing overtly antisemitic sentiments, including crude anti-Jewish caricatures and links to antisemitic websites. One statement (Nov 2, 2013), "Israel's Zionist establishment wants constant war. No longer a surprise, but a most serious evil;" links to Press TV (the state-owned English-language TV station of the Islamic Republic of Iran). Other postings promoted racialist theories of Jewish origins, such as, "It seems like the Ashkenazis (sic) have an inferiority complex because they descend from Kaszars (sic) and lack any genetic tie to Palestine... the Ashkenazis are looking more fraudulent than ever in claiming a Jewish Homeland for the Jewish (White Race) only."
"The moral credibility of the Presbyterians is on the line," continued Santis. "The church must repudiate and fully distance itself from IPMN and its bigotry. IPMN has been walking the church down a dark path, and Presbyterians should ask themselves if this is the direction they wish to go," Santis said.
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http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=4262
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http://ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/NGOM_IPMN_June_2014.pdf
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aranthus
(3,385 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)The host responded, “But you’re still selling it on the Presbyterian USA website. It still is a teaching guide on your website. I looked at it this morning.
Rada admitted “It still is available but there are some elements over which we do not have control. That is being explored right now to see how we’re going to handle it.”
The host had none of it. “Can you explain how you don’t have control? You either sell it or you don’t.”
Rada stated “it has been on our list. It takes a bit of time. We’ve been here at the General Assembly. It takes a bit of time for us to move forward on what is going to be continued to be sold and what is not…”
shira
(30,109 posts)http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/06/20/pcusa-votes-for-anti-israel-divestment/
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)The people behind an anti-Semitic campaign are genuine anti-Semites! How ironic!! 
King_David
(14,851 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)It all makes sense
shira
(30,109 posts)They're cowards who should own up & be honest and open about their views.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)momentum. It's rather sad to think that all those who divest and criticize apartheid Israel are going to be targeted by the screamers as anti-Semites.
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shira
(30,109 posts)The fact is IPMN bigots were caught red-handed & they deserve to be exposed for the hateful human rights imposters they are.
You should be rejoicing in the fact that bigots were outed for the POS's they are. Countering hate filled bigots is a noble cause for all progressives and liberals, don't you agree?
