{"id":44698,"date":"2014-06-21T07:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/presbyterians_debating_israeli_occupation_narrowly_vote_to_divest_holdings\/"},"modified":"2014-06-21T07:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:07:42","slug":"presbyterians_debating_israeli_occupation_narrowly_vote_to_divest_holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44698","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterians, Debating Israeli Occupation, Narrowly Vote to Divest Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies that it says supply Israel with equipment used in the occupation of Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The vote, by a count of 310 to 303, was watched closely in Washington and Jerusalem and by Palestinians as a sign of momentum for a movement to pressure Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and end the occupation, with a campaign known as B.D.S., for Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/21\/us\/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies that it says supply Israel with equipment used<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44698\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,589,149,168,565,203,154,417,108,599,567,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}