What is Resolution B016?

Austin, TX I General Convention of the Episcopal Church

Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Anna Baltzer reports from the General Convention of the Episcopal Church: The Episcopal Peace Fellowship EPF Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN) put in amazing work over many years to make the Episcopal Church the 10th Christian denomination in the US to take economic action for justice in Palestine. Thanks in large part to their mobilization, the church also passed ground-breaking resolutions:

Asserting the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination

Condemning Israel’s violence against protesters in Gaza

Calling on the US government to reinstate funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

Supporting the rights of Palestinian children

Demanding equal access to Jerusalem and opposing Trump’s move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Delegates in Action, BDS, Church, ConferenceAnna B.July 17, 2018Austin, Texas, Delegation Leaders, Delegation 33, Delegation 36, Delegation 40, Delegation 51, May 2010, May 2011, May 2012, 2016 November, Episcopal Church, General Assembly

Episcopal Church Votes to Divest From Israeli Human Rights Abuses

Austin, TX I General Convention of the Episcopal Church

Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Anna Baltzer reports from the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. With more than 3 million members has voted to divest from companies involved in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.

Delegates in Action, BDS, Church, ConferenceAnna B.July 13, 2018Austin, Texas, Delegation Leaders, Delegation 33, Delegation 36, Delegation 40, Delegation 51, May 2010, May 2011, May 2012, 2016 November, Episcopal Church, General Assembly

Delegates In Action

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