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“Anti - BDS Activists Decry Lutherans Obsession With Israel”
by Jpost   
September 7th, 2016

While some pro-Israel groups are decrying the Lutheran church’s “scapegoating of Israel” and its apparent movement towards embracing divestment, other Jewish leaders detect hopeful signs with the church’s most recent positions.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), the largest Lutheran denomination in the US, passed two Israel-related resolutions earlier this month at its triennial assembly in New Orleans. One resolution established an “investment screen” that will recommend where Lutherans should invest their money with regard to Israel and the Palestinians. The other urged a cutoff of US aid to Israel unless Israel meets a series of conditions, and calls for the immediate US recognition of “the state of Palestine.”

“The Lutheran Church has an outrageous obsession with Israel,” said Dexter Van Zile, a Catholic pro-Israel activist who monitors and analyzes the Christian media for the Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

He told JNS.org the group “has been beating up on Israel for a long time, and this is just the latest example.”

David Brog, of Christians United for Israel, said in a statement that the resolutions “blame Israel and only Israel for the conflict in the Middle East.

Such one-sided scapegoating of the Jewish state will only fuel further Palestinian rejection and violence.”

Lutheran student activist Austin Reid told JNS.org that the church’s resolutions “send a message of discrimination against Israel, and neglect to hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for misguiding the Palestinian people.”
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