Presbyterian Church advises members to take safety precautions

This appeared on news channels at 11:00 PM, EST, Nov 13. The source URL is to the article link on a Louisville, KY, tv news website. Reading the article may require registration with the site. There is no monetary charge - it's free.

Riiiiiight. Those scary joos are real firebugs alright. Moslems or white supremacists, maybe, but JEWS?!?!

Now if they said they received a note threatening to sue them into oblivion...........

This smacks of an attempt to "defuse" some of the good will and unity between American Jews and Christians.

Of course I have been wrong before.

Yes, like Jewish arsonists are running lose all over America. We go on orange alerts because of Jewish terrorism.< /sarcasm>.

For some reason, this almost sounds like a propaganda play by pro-Muslim Presbyterians.

I smell a possible rat here. Will this turn out like so many so called phoney attacks on Muslims after 9/11 and the phoney attacks on Gays which are shouted out weekly by the MSM?

Two of the left wing lunatics of this Church were fired for meeting with Hezbollah. If guilty these clymers should face some serious charges.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279114/posts

Two Presbyterian staff members who met with Hezbollah are fired [Presbyterian Church (USA)]
The Layman Online ^ | Nov 12, 2004 | John H. Adams

Posted on 11/13/2004 8:42:51 AM PST by Mike Fieschko

Friday, November 12, 2004

Two high-level Presbyterian Church (USA) employees have been fired in the aftermath of their taking part in a controversial meeting with a representative of Hezbollah, a group blamed for murdering hundreds of Americans and Israelis.

Kathy Leuckert, deputy executive associate director of the General Assembly Council, and Peter Sulyok, coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, were notified that they were no longer employed by the Presbyterian Church (USA), according to a memo released Thursday morning by John Detterick, the executive director of the General Assembly Council.

The Presbyterian News Service broke the story
about the firings on Thursday. The Courier-Journal of Louisville published an account of the matter this morning.

Detterick did not spell out the reasons for their termination, but Leuckert and Sulyok were two of the staff leaders who were with 22 other Presbyterians on a "fact-finding" trip to the Mideast.

Two elected members of that delegation – Ron Stone and Nile Harper – prompted a wave of criticism from Jews, Presbyterians and the secular press because of comments they made to Hezbollah media that were viewed to be anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.

Hezbollah media did not quote any comments by Leuckert or Sulyok. But Detterick, Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and Moderator Rick Ufford Chase, responding to the flareup over the televised remarks by Stone and Harper, said they had advised the group before the trip not to meet with Hezbollah.

Leuckert, Detterick's top deputy, and Sulyok were the two highest ranking staff members on the trip, which was sponsored primarily by the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy.

Detterick's memo did not directly link the firings of Leuckert and Sulyok with the decision to go to Lebanon to meet with a Hezbollah leader. In the memo to the staff at the denomination's headquarters in Louisville, Detterick implied that legal reasons prevented him from disclosing why the two staffers were fired.

Leuckert was the second-highest paid employee in the Office of the Executive Director of the General Assembly Council with a pay and benefit package worth $155,310, according to the Minutes of the 2003 General Assembly. Detterick's pay and benefit package was listed at $207,146.

There was no mention in the memo of any action that might be taken against Stone, a retired professor of ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and Harper, a retired minister who is the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. Both are elected members of the committee and, therefore, not under Detterick's authority.

During an interview with a Hezbollah-owned television station, Stone said, "As an elder of our church, I'd like to say that, according to my recent experience, relations and conversations with Islamic leaders are a lot easier than dealings and dialogue with Jewish leaders."

"Also, we praise your initiative for dialogue and mutual understanding," Stone added. "We cherish these statements that bring us closer to you. We treasure the precious words of Hezbollah and your expression of goodwill."

Harper, who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., criticized as "unhelpful" Israel's defensive separation barrier and said products made by U.S. corporations "are being used destructively against the Palestinians. The occupation by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza must end because it is oppressive and destructive for the Palestinian people."

Detterick said he intends to begin searching for an interim deputy executive director before the year's end. The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy will report to Curtis Kearns, director of the National Ministries Division.

"It is with sadness that I tell you that Kathy Lueckert's tenure as deputy executive director has come to an end today," Detterick said in his memo. "Kathy has made contributions to the work of the GAC and for that I will always be very grateful … I am also sorry to tell you that Peter Sulyok is leaving the GAC. Peter, too, has contributed much, especially to the work of ACSWP."

He concluded, "I know these decisions raise many questions for staff, but please realize that all staff have the right to confidentiality regarding their employment. Therefore, this is all I can say. I am keeping Kathy and Peter in my prayers and hope you will also."

Lueckert was responsible for several major GAC operations, including communications, mission funding, human resources, social policy development, women's and racial ethnic concerns and its legal and research arms.

Sulyok has headed the PCUSA's social policy development since February, 1993.

All I can find after registering at that site is this:

Two Presbyterian Church USA officials fired

12:29 PM EST on Friday, November 12, 2004

Two officials from the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church USA have been fired after they met with leaders of a terrorist group in Lebanon.

The firings include the executive associate director of the church's general assembly council and the coordinator of the advisory committee on social witness policy.

A delegation from the church met with members of the Hezbollah group last month. That group has been linked to the 1983 truck bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines.

Where is the article located that you posted? Thanks

Yep. This is fishy. Local news channels had an article last week regarding communications between PC USA and one of two name brand terrorist groups... I'll see if I can find the article (not promising anything). PC USA has recently announced it is divesting all investments in Israeli owned companies, etc.....

The Presbyterian Church is full of nut cases. How do they get away calling themselves a Church? Do Presbyterians even exist outside of the USA?

The Orthodox Presbyterians are stand-up folks ... not to be confused with PCUSA....

Thanks for the context.

If these two were guilty of meeting with a Hamas terrorist leader, they need to be tried here and in Israel.

I have bumped this story up to a few people in my church, the Epicopalian Church warning them to back off the threat to punish Israel by selling stocks of companies that are pro Israel. If we have something similiar going on in our church, those involved should be tried and sent to Israel for trial.

Looks ridiculous on its face to me as well. The pattern of Muslim threats against churches based on the Middle East situation is routine. I've never heard of a Jewish terror threat against anyone for anything. Furthermore, there are many US synagogues to the left of any church with regards to their position on Israel - total, abject appeasers - who would be the logical target of such a threat first. Then of course there is the contradiction that one cannot be Jewish (or Christian Zionist, the other possibly imputed source) and threaten murder - such a thing is a direct affront to the core principles of Judaism.

I believe that this is the article, and I posted in my reply #5 on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1279697/posts?page=5#5

So with regards to the threat itself, do think this is just another left-wing Tawana Brawley episode?

"For some reason, this almost sounds like a propaganda play by pro-Muslim Presbyterians."

Once again you and I are on the same wave length.

Conservatives in the Presbyterian Church should request that Homeland Security and the FBI investigate this.

False threats are considered an act of terrorism.

"So with regards to the threat itself, do you think this is just another left-wing Tawana Brawley episode?"

Yes at this time I smell left wing rats spreading this.

In N California after 9/11 the left wing mediots had all types of stories of threats beatings and stuff on the poor Muslim Communities and Mosques. It turned out to be false in about 99.99% of the cases like most of the so called hate crimes.

I had a feeling their delivery of heads on platters for perhaps ill-conceived meetings with Hezbollah wouldn't do the trick.

(Funny how no one ever dogged Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson for trotting off to chat up Khaddafi or others. Strange.)

I think there's more at stake here than meets the eye. I think the snafu over the State's strongarming the Presbyterians over how they invest their money theatens to expose the Arab League Boycott as the shakedown for both the State and Israel that it may well be.

Progress, Problems On Divestment

Jews, Protestants to travel to Israel together —
but they can’t agree on a statement condemning terrorism.
James D. Besser - Washington Correspondent

Jews and mainline Christian activists who are considering “divestment” from Israel made some progress toward resolving their differences at a meeting in Washington last week — actually agreeing to travel to Israel together — but also ran into one big obstacle.

And there were indications at the meeting that more Protestant groups could get on the divestment bandwagon.

Despite a generally positive meeting at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, with participation from a number of major Jewish defense organizations and denominational groups, the activists were unable to work out a statement summarizing their achievements because of objections by some Christians to an unequivocal denunciation of terrorism.

“The fact [a final statement] fell apart over terrorism is profoundly disturbing,” said Mark Pelavin, associate director of the RAC.

Several participants said the holdout on terrorism was the representative of the Episcopalians.

Rev. Brian Grieves, director of peace and justice ministries for the Episcopal Church, wrote in an e-mail interview, “I think it broke down because of the press of time. If we’d had the time, we could have found the language we needed to express ourselves on ‘terrorism.’ We needed to condemn violence on both sides of the conflict, and we didn’t quite get there.”

[...]

(JTA) - Jewish Democrats slam Presbyterians

Three Democratic Jewish congressmen want the U.S. Presbyterian Church to denounce church leaders who met with Hezbollah. Video of the meeting shows church elder Ronald Stone praising the terrorist group's social work in Lebanon and saying that "relations and conversations with Islamic leaders are a lot easier than dealings and dialogue with Jewish leaders." The church outraged U.S. Jews this summer when its General Assembly voted to divest from companies that do business with Israel and to back missionary work to Jews. "The disgraceful conduct of these individuals reflects very poorly on the church as an institution," Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wrote in a letter Monday.

Dear Representative ----

I am in receipt of your letter indicating that you are "terribly distressed" by the action of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seeking a just and peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. I very much regret your disappointment, but in all candor, must also communicate with you that I am terribly distressed in the failure of the U.S. Congress to seek a peaceful resolution to this conflict that would both protect the right of Israel to live in peace with secure borders and the rights of the Palestinians to statehood and an end of the occupation of their territory. Perhaps if the U.S. Congress had been more forthright in seeking such a just solution for Israel and Palestine, it would not have been necessary for our General Assembly to take this further action to achieve our long term commitment for peace and well being for both Israelis and Palestinians. Let me give you a bit of background on the stand of our church.

In 1948 in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) declared that a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict "will be a achieved only by a return to the principle of faithful devotion to the welfare, needs, and rights of both the Jewish and Arab peoples." The Presbyterian Church (USA) has long been concerned with finding a just peace in the region and over the last 56 years we have expressed our concern for peace between Israel, the Palestinian people and the Arab states. We have consistently called for US policies to encourage and to help to achieve the negotiation of a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in the region with two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side with secure borders.

The decision made by the 216th General Assembly to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment from certain companies operating in Israel, which are profiting off the harming of innocent lives was not taken lightly. It was born out of the frustration that many of our members, as well as members of other denominations, feel with the current policies of Israel and those of our own government in regards to the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

Neither the Israeli, nor the Palestinian, nor the U.S. leadership has taken the necessary and bold steps needed to achieve peace. However, the United States, both its government and its institutions and its citizens, has a unique role to play in the conflict. The governments and peoples around the world look to the US for the leadership necessary to implement peace accords, bring an end to the occupation, and bring peace and security to the people of the region.

It has been very disappointing to us that the U.S. congress has not proven to be an ally or a balanced arbiter in the negotiations for peace in the region. While congress has passed repeated statements against the Palestinian Authority, it has never passed a resolution condemning the continuous illegal construction of settlements in the West Bank. There has been nothing done by congress to pressure Israel to adhere to international law. Rather, Israel has been encouraged by congress to violate international law. The recent passage of House Resolution 713, which condemns the International Court of Justice and supports a wall that is in blatant violation of international law is one case in point.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian conditions in the occupied territories continue to worsen. Sixty percent of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank now live below the poverty line; almost 2.5 million subsist on under $2 per day. The West Bank has disturbing rates of acute malnutrition, and Gaza now faces a humanitarian emergency. The USAID found a direct correlation between the humanitarian conditions in the West Bank and the curfews imposed on the Palestinian population by the Israeli Government. The sweeping restrictions on freedom of movement that Israel imposes in the occupied territories are the main cause of the corrosion of the Palestinian economy and the extreme increase in unemployment and poverty.

While the Israeli government claims it is building the "separation barrier" between Israel and the West Bank, only a small percent will be on the Green Line, Israel's 1967 border. The rest stretches into the West Bank, isolates huge amounts of land and affects the lives of many thousands of Palestinians. This year some 210,000 people will be economically and socially cut off from their neighborhoods. The route of the wall has been determined not by security, but by the political goals of maintaining the settlements and impacting future peace talks. (A wall built along the Green Line would be half the length of the current wall and much easier to patrol.)

The current wall ghettoizes the Palestinians and forces them onto what can only be called reservations. A just and lasting peace will only be achieved when BOTH people are able to live within secure boarders. A wall imposed by Israel on the Palestinians while maintaining the right to invade at anytime does not advance that goal.

The fourth Geneva Convention details the responsibility that an occupying power has for the civilians under its control. However, Israel has refused to apply this to its occupied territories. Just recently, Prime Minister Sharon repudiated the Road Map and announced that the illegal settlements in the West Bank are there for the long term. Americans for Peace Now, a Jewish peace organization has documented the most recent moves to expand these settlements. Israeli Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz has issued instructions to have 72,000 olive trees planted in huge areas of the West Bank near settlements for the settlers' exclusive use. He stated "This is seizing lands and preventing them from being turned over to Palestinians. That is how we will strengthen our hold on Judea and Samaria."

The unconditional support of Israel and Prime Minister Sharon, while the continuous assaults on Palestinians and their leadership by the Israeli army are broadcast all over the world does nothing to protect our security as a nation. It also does nothing to bring the security so needed to Israel. It is the occupation, not our move to consider divestment that threatens the existence of Israel. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to begin a process that might lead to divestment from companies profiting from the occupation because there is a strong feeling among many people, and most likely many people in your district, that the occupation needs to end in order that all people - Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans - can live in peace and security.

While I regret that you and the other fourteen of your colleagues who signed the letter are disturbed by the specific action of the Presbyterian General Assembly, I am encouraged by your assurance that you seek a peaceful and just solution to the conflict in the Middle East. Since we obviously both hope that the other's institutions (Congress or the Presbyterian General Assembly) might change their actions, I would welcome an opportunity for constructive dialogue between you and your colleagues who joined you in signing the letter and the leadership of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Once I receive word of your interest in pursuing this dialogue, I will ask my colleagues in the Presbyterian Washington Office to be in touch with your staff to make the necessary arrangements for our conversation together on this most important concern for the well being of all the peoples in the Middle East.

May God grant peace with justice to all the people of the Middle East!

Clifton Kirkpatrick
Stated Clerk of the General Assembly

(JTA) - Terror language leads to grant rejection

A civil liberties group said it would not take money from two major U.S. foundations because it considers the requisite anti-terrorist language in their grant agreements an attack on free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union said it rejected money from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations because the anti-terror provisions could impede work done by the ACLU and other organizations. "Just because we weren't going to be intimidated or our speech wasn't going to be chilled doesn't mean we can overlook the potentially negative impact the language will have on other entities," said Nadine Strossen, ACLU's president. The foundations rules were put into place after a JTA investigative series last fall found that the Ford Foundation had funded virulently anti-Israel groups with links to terrorist organizations.

Members Of Congress To Commerce Dept:
Anti-Israel Divestment Campaigns Violate U.S. Anti-Boycott Laws

NEW YORK- A bipartisan group of thirteen Members of Congress has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce, urging the shutdown of anti-Israel divestment campaigns, because they violate U.S. laws regarding the Arab boycott of Israel.

The letter was initiated by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). It was led by U.S. Representatives Jim Saxton (R-NJ) and Rob Andrews (D-NJ), and also signed by Representatives Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Michael McNulty (D-NY), Peter King (R-NY), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Martin Frost (D-TX), Philip Crane (R-IL), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO).

The letter, which was sent to the Commerce Department’s Office of Anti-boycott Compliance, noted that by urging Americans to divest their holdings in companies doing business with Israel, the divestment organizers are illegally “furnishing information about U.S. companies that have business relationships in or with Israel, and specifically advocate that these companies be boycotted.” Such actions are “expressly prohibited by the anti-boycott provisions of the Export Administration Act, which were enacted in response to congressional concerns about the Arab boycott of Israel.”

The Congressional letter noted that divestment supporters are actively promoting the boycott of Israel on the internet and have launched divestment campaigns on more than thirty college campuses, including the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The divestment campaign “poses serious economic consequences for our country,” the letter pointed out, noting that according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Arab boycott of Israel is a “substantive impediment” to U.S. trade and investment. “The financial future of U.S. companies and the status of our country’s international trade ... are at stake.”

The Congressmembers urged the Office of Anti-boycott Compliance to “investigate the national boycott campaign against Israel, shut down the illegal divestment campaigns, and impose the appropriate penalties.”

The letter added that the issue is “urgent” because a national student divestment conference is scheduled to be held at Duke University on October 15, 2004.

Susan B. Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, which has been active on this issue, said: “These thirteen Members of Congress are to be commended for their forthright and principled stand against the divestment proponents, who are violating U.S. law by illegally promoting economic warfare against America’s ally, Israel.”

From The Jewish Home Journal

[...] As [do] most of my friends in the rabbinic community, I struggle with many of the decisions of the Israeli government. Like most people in the world, I do not see an easy solution to the crisis that besets the Palestinians and the Israelis....

[But] the debate rhetoric at GA resounded with ignorantly dangerous and inflammatory comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa — there is no truth in such rhetoric, but the damage was done even though the final resolutions did not use such language. This denomination carefully divested its portfolio during the crisis in South Africa, but it has done little else of such magnitude in this risky venue since.

For instance, it has not called for divestment of firms doing business in China, one of the world’s worst offenders of human and religious rights, and we’ve not taken divestment actions against nuclear N. Korea or Iran, and not against Sudan for Darfur (with one exception before Darfur reached the headlines). We have not divested ourselves of firms doing business in Saudi Arabia (remember where the 9/11 hijackers came from and where the bin Laden funding has found favor and laundering).

The action against Israel is selectively discriminatory, provocative and harmful. [...]

Export Administration Act:

The Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, has been in lapse since August 21, 2001. In the absence of an Export Administration Act, the U.S. dual-use export control system continues to be dependent on the President's invocation of emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. As demonstrated by recent events, having a modern, coherent, and effective system of dual-use export controls -- to prevent terrorists, rogue states, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction from accessing sensitive U.S.-origin goods and technology -- is now more important than ever. The Administration supports legislation to create a streamlined and strengthened export control system that effectively promotes both U.S. national security and U.S. economic interests.

St. Jude Medical Export GmbH Settles Charges of Antiboycott Violations (2004)

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that St. Jude Medical Export GmbH (St. Jude), an Austrian subsidiary of a Minnesota-based U.S. exporter of medical equipment, has agreed to pay a $30,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it violated the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) charged that St. Jude violated the EAR when it failed to report in a timely manner its receipt of three requests from an Iraqi government agency to adhere to the rules of the Israeli boycott during the 2000-2001 reporting period. BIS also charged that, on four occasions, St. Jude violated the antiboycott provisions by agreeing to refuse to do business with blacklisted persons.

The antiboycott provisions of the EAR prohibit U.S. persons from complying with certain requirements of unsanctioned foreign boycotts, including providing information about business relationships with another person who is known or believed to be restricted from having a business relationship with or in a boycotting country. In addition, the EAR requires that U.S. persons report their receipt of certain boycott requests to the Department of Commerce. Under the antiboycott provisions of the EAR, a controlled-in-fact foreign subsidiary of a domestic U.S. company is considered a U.S. person.

St. Jude voluntarily disclosed the transactions and cooperated fully with the investigation.

Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Julie L. Myers commended Compliance Officer Perry Province of BIS’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance, for his work on this case.

Maryland Company Settles Charges of Antiboycott Violations

Summary: U.S. Department of Commerce: For Immediate Release: April 14, 2004 Contact - BIS Public Affairs 202-482-2721 Invitrogen agreed to a $2,000 civil penalty to settle allegations of violations of US antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations.

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that Invitrogen Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, agreed to a $2,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that its subsidiary, Invitrogen Limited of Scotland (Invitrogen), violated the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) charged that Invitrogen furnished information about its business relationship with Israel when it certified to the end-user that the United States-origin goods the company sold to Syria were “not of Israeli origin and did not contain any Israeli materials.”

The antiboycott provisions of the EAR prohibit U.S. persons from complying with certain requirements of unsanctioned foreign boycotts, including providing information about business relationships with Israel and refusing to do business with persons on boycott lists. In addition, the EAR requires that persons report their receipt of certain boycott requests to the Department of Commerce. Under the antiboycott provisions of the EAR, a controlled-in-fact foreign subsidiary of a domestic U.S. concern is considered a U.S. person.

Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Julie L. Myers commended Compliance Officer Joyce Shepard of BIS’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance for her work on this case. The BIS Public Affairs office can be reached at 202-482-2721.

Having some trouble finding an +EAR +boycott +settlement sans mention of Israel for comparison purposes but this one last is interesting.

I find it strange that our premier "former Communists" consultant to the Homeland Defense Ministry -- Yevgeny (Finkelstein) Primakov -- changed his own name out of sensitivity to its provocative nature and potential for trouble while the Former CCCP's specialist in Arab affairs.

Yet that same sensitivity cost Johns-Hopkins the maximum fine in Uncle Sam's shakedown efforts courtesy of the boycott the Arabs so kindly keep in place!

To wit:

August 6, 2002

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement Michael J. Garcia announced today that Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland has agreed to pay the maximum $10,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it violated U.S. antiboycott laws by discriminating against an individual in support of the Arab League boycott of Israel. Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation voluntarily disclosed the incident and cooperated fully with the subsequent investigation.

"As Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Kenneth I. Juster recently made clear, the Commerce Department will vigorously enforce our antiboycott laws," Assistant Secretary Garcia noted. "This case demonstrates that resolve."

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) had charged that in 1995, Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation discriminated against a U.S. person because she was Jewish. The person had been seeking a position in the company's International Services Department, which markets medical services around the world, including in the Middle East. BIS believes that the discriminatory conduct was motivated by the company's concern about having a Jewish person in that position because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.

CORRECTED LINKS for the post above:

The Layman (news of the firings)

Progress, Problems On Divestment (The Jewish Week)

(JTA) - Jewish Democrats slam Presbyterians (Cleveland Jewish News)

(JTA) - Terror language leads to grant rejection (Cleveland Jewish News)

Members Of Congress To Commerce Dept:
Anti-Israel Divestment Campaigns Violate U.S. Anti-Boycott Laws (Zionists of America? "ZOA")

From The Jewish Home Journal

Export Administration Act: (BXA.doc.gov)

St. Jude Medical Export GmbH Settles Charges of Antiboycott Violations (2004) (www.bxa.doc.gov/News/2004/StJudeMedicalSep_04.htm)

Maryland Company Settles Charges of Antiboycott Violations (Boycott Watch)

August 6, 2002 (www.bis.doc.gov/press/2002/JohnsHopkinsPays.htm)

The Presbyterian Church is full of nut cases.

Wrong. "The Presbyterian Church" has no meaning and is a generalization.

Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) is a group of churches that are really just a feather on the wing of the liberal Democrat Party. PCUSA supports homosexual marriage and is generally antisemitic, but pro-muslim. Their parishioners provide a huge chunk of AIDS funding, which in turn goes to support homosexual activism. PCUSA is also pro-pro-pro-abortion.

Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is conservative, anti-abortion and biblically driven. PCA came into existence when it became clear that PCUSA had been taken over by the liberal left. PCA is growing in leaps and bounds.

There are other Presbyterian organizations that are also conservative, like Associate Reformed Presbyterian (AFP).

This threat is against PCUSA and could be from anyone that despises the agenda of this ultra-liberal group that misuses religion for the monetary gain of few.

Do Presbyterians even exist outside of the USA?

Yes, they are all over the world and began in Scotland.

The Commerce Department did not, however, stop Duke from carrying out its traitorous antisemitic conference.