Last week, the International Engagement Committee of the 1.2-million-strong Presbyterian Church passed a resolution entitled, ‘On Recognition That Israel’s Laws, Policies, and Practices Constitute Apartheid Against the Palestinian People.’ There are roughly 75 million Presbyterians around the world, and it has a strong presence in Africa, with 3.4 million members there. The development came in the same month that the seven million US Lutherans came to a similar conclusion. Eric Ledermann and Greg Brekke writing in the Presbyterian Outlook quote commissioner Leslie Latham as saying that she was initially reluctant to use the word Apartheid,

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