America’s mainline Protestant churches are…turning their political policy-making over to fringe leftists whose deepest instinct is to blame America and pummel Israel [1]....The latest disgrace is the Presbyterian Church’s…ending [its] investment in multinational companies that the church believes [cause] the sufferings of the Palestinian people [by dealing with Israel [1]]….Apparently they cast a stern moral glance around the world, look for possible abuses in China, North Korea, and Iran, and seeing [none]…focus once again on Israel [1]….The United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), plus the reliably leftist National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches [during] 2000 to 2003 [issued] 197 human-rights criticisms…37 percent were aimed at Israel [1] and 32 percent at the United States….The fixation on Israel [1] left little time and inclination…to notice the most dangerous violations of human rights around the world. Not one nation bordering Israel [1] was criticized by a single mainline church….No criticisms at all were leveled at China, Libya, Syria, or North Korea.
America is [seen] as a malignant force in the world, while Israel [1] is seen as nothing more than a dangerous colonial implant of the West…. Anti-Americanism is an old story in the mainline church bureaucracies. During the 1970s and 1980s, these churches generally ignored human-rights abuses in the Soviet Union and focused instead on the United States as the primary source of abuse….
John Leo, U.S. News & World Report, 10/18/04, p 81.
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[1] https://www.thebereancall.org/taxonomy/term/51/israel