{"id":4126,"date":"2012-06-19T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:01:17","slug":"epalestine-presbyterian-church-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2012\/06\/epalestine-presbyterian-church-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) under attack from Israel Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is under attack from the Israel Lobby for bringing to vote in their upcoming General Assembly later this month the issue of divesting from three U.S. firms that are profiting from the Israeli military occupation. The firms are Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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See: The Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA)<\/em><\/strong>, <\/span> <\/span> http:\/\/www.theIPMN.org<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a>  .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The time is now to make your voice heard. Enough of the Israel Lobby, and its proxies, threatening the Church. Sign this petition today: <\/span> <\/span> http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/divestfromcat\/<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

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I wrote a letter to all 800 <\/span><\/span> Presbyterian Commissioners and it may be found at: <\/span> <\/span> http:\/\/israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org\/main\/<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a>  (middle column) or a PDF copy may be downloaded directly from: <\/span> <\/span> http:\/\/bit.ly\/PCUSA-DIVEST<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a>  .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Invest in Palestine today, and <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Divest from Israel to give your investment a fighting chance,<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear friends,  The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is under attack from the Israel Lobby for bringing to vote in their upcoming General Assembly later this month the issue of divesting from three U.S. firms that are profiting from the Israeli military occupation. The firms are Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions.  See: The Israel Palestine Mission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,907,892,712],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-christian","tag-church","tag-holy-land","tag-presbyterian"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}