[FrontPageMagazine] Mark D. Tooley - United Methodist officials are urging their 7.9 million denomination to divest from Caterpillar, Inc. stock to punish Israel. While Rev. Steven Sprecher, a director on the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, insisted that his board's divestment stance "is not anti-Semitic and it's not anti-Israel," Israel is the only country against which the United Methodist board is urging a substantive divestment. "Don't give in to the demonization of Israel," Rabbi Gary Greenebaum of the American Jewish Committee implored a Methodist meeting on Jan. 25. The issue will arise at the denomination's governing General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, starting on April 23. The writer directs the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy.
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