"What galls me is the moral hypocrisy," he added. "Just say it's the Palestinian position you've adopted. And we feel it's bias.

"After a year of dialogue, you defend the same things you did when we began."

After a year, they're still talking past each other -- and on Saturday, they took their debate public.

Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League heard the Rev. Jay Rock explain why the Presbyterian Church USA is considering pulling investments from companies that do business in Israel.

Then the Jewish leaders denounced Rock's comments as doubletalk and said the Presbyterians were siding with Palestinians in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"Emotions are still running deep over this," Rock, the denomination's coordinator for interfaith relations, said after the heated dialogue at The Breakers resort. "My only concern, really, is whether we can keep talking."

Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL's interfaith director, agreed...

Presbyterian Church joins Coalition with Terror-Supporters

The Presbyterian Church, USA, has joined End the Occupation, a coalition that includes several organizations that endorse terrorism.

Within the last twelve months, PCUSA delegations have twice met with Hezbollah, a listed terrorist organization.

Although leaders of the PCUSA have issued formal statements repudiating terrorism, they have sometimes admitted to having difficult recognizing it. In his 2004 Christmas message, PCUSA Moderator Rev. Rick Ufford-Chase wrote: Its increasingly difficult to distinguish between... the victims of terrorist attacks or well-executed military campaigns... the United States or Osama Bin Laden [Note: This link appears to be broken - Sol]...

By joining End the Occupation, the Presbyterian Church places itself in close alliance with several organizations that endorse terrorism. Among these are the International Solidarity Movement, which views the murder of Israelis by suicide bombers as a noble form of jihad. Al Awda The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, a group dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish State by any means necessary. And the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which, at its National Convention at Duke University in October, 2004, voted to defeat a floor motion to condemn terrorism, a vote greeted with thunderous applause. Rev. Mark Davidson, pastor of the PCUSA Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill, was a featured speaker at the PSM conference. This marks the third year in a row that the PSM National Conference has voted overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining its endorsement of terrorism as one of the "strategies and tactics," appropriate in the elimination of the State of Israel.

End the Occupation is a large coalition. Some member organizations are legitimate religious groups, such as the American Friends Service Committee. Some are political associations with questionable attitudes toward terrorism, such as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Many member organizations are radical left groups such as the International Socialist Organization and the National Lawyers Guild. This week the National Lawyers Guild held a dinner to honor Northeastern University Professor Shahid Alam, notorious for comparing the 9/11 hijackers to the Founding Fathers favorably. Most groups on the list are single-city committees, often affiliated with one of the national anti-Israel groups: the ISM, PSM, and Al Awda.

The United Church of Christ has distributed to their members congregations a study guide on the issues of divestment and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. It is a distinct possibility that there will be a resolution on this submitted at their synod meeting in Atlanta in July. ADL has reacted to the contents of the study, and in the following letter raises its objections to the proposal to institute divestment as a formal church policy...