Ahead of vote on policy, archbishop urges United Methodist Church to divest from three companies doing business with Israel.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged the United Methodist Church to divest from Israel Tuesday ahead of a church conference vote on the policy.
Desmond Tutu - Photo by REUTERS
The quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church, being held in Tampa, Florida, is considering divesting from three companies doing business with Israel. The vote is scheduled for this week and could have come as early as Tuesday depending how much debate occurs on different measures.
Tutu wrote in the Tampa Bay Times that the “harsh reality endured by millions of Palestinians requires people and organizations of conscience to divest from those companies – in this instance, from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett Packard – profiting from the occupation and subjugation of Palestinians.”
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