Presbyterians Usher in the Jewish Holiday of Purim

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
February 24, 2010

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/701/presbyterians-jewish-holiday-purim

Excerpt:

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces Israel as a "racist" nation which has absolutely no historical, covenantal, or theological right to the Holy Land. The report calls for the United States to withhold financial and military aid to Israel and for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. That's not all. The report also endorses a Palestinian "right of return" and "apologizes to Palestinians for even conceding that Israel has a right to exist." According to the press release, it also states that Israel's history begins only with the Holocaust and that Israel is "a nation mistakenly created by Western powers at the expense of the Palestinian people to solve the 'Jewish problem'."

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