Investment Activism

SABEEL PAPER:
A Call For Morally Responsible Investment:
a Nonviolent Response to the Israeli Occupation (HTML)

Sabeel's Call for MRI in Booklet Form pdf
published by Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center

Survey: Approaches to Economic Engagement Toward a Just and Viable Peace in Israel and Palestine: Ongoing Review of Diverse Approaches by Groups and Individuals Worldwide

Subsection of the above Survey: Church Policy and Action
PDF File or Word file

Jewish Voice for Peace publication: A Moral Choice: Divesting from the Israeli Occupation (booklet in pdf format)

A statement of support from Archbishop Desmond Tutu , October 2005

Sabeel Toronto Conference Report, October 2005

Churches Respond

Divestment issue may return, May 2008

Understanding United Methodist Divestment, May 2008
General Conference Actions on Proposals Regarding Israel/Palestine & Divestment
Full Report

New England Conference, United Methodist Church, Pushes to Divest
Boston Globe, July 31, 2007

Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC’s general minister and president says: Synod policy
on Israel-Palestine 'remains today what it was before', June 29, 2007

Media Distortions! PCUSA stands firm against the occupation,
Jewish Voice for Peace, June 2006

Presbyterian Church USA, 217th General Assembly, affirms the use of investments to press for peace in Israel/Palestine, June 2006

The Anglican Consultative Council, June 2005

KAIROS-Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
Statement on Morally Responsible Investment, November 2005

Episcopal Church, October 8, 2005

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Churchwide Strategy for Engagement in Israel and Palestine , 2005 pre-Assembly Report

United Methodist Church, New England Conference, June 11, 2005

Presbyterian Church, July 20, 2004

United Church of Christ, July 5, 2005

World Council of Churches, February 21, 2005

Articles

Israeli professor: UK boycott justified, YNet, May 31, 2006

The Israel Divestment Debate, by Hasdai Westbrook in The Nation, May 8, 2006

Church of England votes to sell off shares in Caterpillar
by Stephen Bates, The Guardian, February 7, 2006,

Sabeel Conference Considers Economic Leverage
as Tool to Fight Israeli Occupation, by Sister Elaine Kelley, January 2006

Divestment
by Jim Wall in The Christian Century, November 2005

Israel/Palestine: Report recommends corporate engagement, positive investment
by Matthew Davies, October 2005

The Divestment Snowball, by Amiram Barkat, September 14, 2005

Palestinian Civil Society on Divestment , Press Release, July 8, 2005

Build Moral Pressure to End the Occupation
by Desmond Tutu, The International Herald Tribune, June 14, 2002