Bush, Clinton called to condemn antisemitism of UMC

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By Stan Goodenough
June 29, 2007

US President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton have been asked to distance themselves from the recent decision of the United Methodist Church (UMC) to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

Both politicians are Methodists.

The Anti-Defamation League sharply criticized the one-sided statement released by the “Divestment Task Force” of the UMC’s New England Conference, which asserted that “the urgency of the humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories cannot be overstated” but completely disregarded the unrelenting terrorist attacks against Israelis being perpetrated by those very Arabs.

Continuing, the ADL said “the authors of the report must be living in a bubble to ignore ongoing attacks on Israel and Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza to issue such an outrageous, biased report that focuses only on Israel."

Representatives for Bush and Clinton did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment on the Methodist divestment action, according to the New York Sun.

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