CAMERA
By Dexter Van Zile
May 13, 2014

Since its founding in 2004, the Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has been engaged in an ongoing effort to delegitimize Israel and its supporters, Jews especially, in the United States.

For example, in 2009, the IPMN posted a link to an anti-Semitic video on youtube titled “I am Israel” that attributed a fabricated quote (“We control America”), to Ariel Sharon. And in a 2010 memo, the organization falsely accused American Jewish organizations of an arson attack against the PC(USA) for its criticism of Israel. The IPMN’s anti-Israel (and anti-Jewish) polemics got so bad that the organization took down its Facebook page after complaints from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

The hostility continues.

Earlier this year, the IPMN published Zionism Unsettled, a 74-page booklet that is sold through the PC(USA)’s website. The booklet, which is accompanied by a DVD that includes several videos, is promoted as a “congregational study guide.” The expectation is that PC(USA) congregations (and churches in other Christian denominations) will use the text and DVD to educate their members about the Arab-Israeli conflict and in turn, become indoctrinated with IPMN’s anti-Israel (and anti-Jewish) propaganda.

….Zionism Unsettled is not an honest attempt to educate Presbyterians about the tragedy of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but is instead, an obvious attempt to demonize Israel and its supporters, as singular enemies of human rights, justice and peace in the Middle East.