UCC votes for divestment from Israel as BDS marks tenth anniversary
(The Christian Science Monitor) Some Palestinian activists reveled in the momentum of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement as it marked its tenth anniversary in July.
[The movement has been backed by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The United Church of Christ voted 508-124 at its denominational gathering in Cleveland on June 30 to divest from U.S. companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and to boycott products by Israeli companies in West Bank settlements.]
“The BDS movement has triggered unprecedented debate within Israeli society about Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid, showing Israeli society that there is a fast-rising price to be paid for maintaining this regime of oppression,” said Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and cofounder of the movement.
