
Julie Hammerman
- Mar 9, 2016
Internal protest at Methodist pension after Israel divestment
Last month the $21 billion Methodist pension divested from five Israeli banks to appease the church’s anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) group, known as the United Methodist Kairos Response (UMKR). As more information emerges on the Methodist pension’s decision-making process, it has become evident that the pension board violated it’s own policies, as well as the values and ethics of the broader Methodist community, in order to enact an anti-Israel agenda. When the dec