On July 6, after much speculation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) narrowly rejected a proposal to divest its portfolio from companies that supply equipment to Israel, which, it alleges, enforce Israeli control in the “occupied territories.”

What was largely overlooked, however, was that the at the end of their biennial national General Assembly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the commissioners overruled a vote by the membership and voted with a 71% majority to boycott “all Israeli products coming from the occupied Palestinian Territories.”