PCUSA
General Assembly
"OPEN LETTER TO OUR FELLOW
PRESBYTERIANS
ON BOYCOTT AND DIVESTMENT" - June 4, 2014
Rev. J. Mark Davidson,
Pastor, Church of Reconciliation, Chapel Hill, NC,
Rev. Ronald Shive, Pastor,
First Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NC
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Other actions of the Middle East Issues Committee included:
- approving a
new study to reconsider the denomination’s support for a “two-state
solution”;
- turning down an
overture to classify Israeli practices as “apartheid”;
- rejecting a
call to boycott all Hewlett-Packard products;
- approving a
resolution for “equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and
Palestine”;
- adopting a
resolution clarifying that the controversial Zionism Unsettled
study “does not represent the views of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)”;
- endorsing a
discussion paper on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict produced by Chicago

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