Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner writes in the New Jersey Jewish News about the PCUSA's vote on divestment from Israel:

"I believe that there is a much deeper cause to this movement. And it is not anti-Semitism. It is frustration -- a by-product of the spiritual and emotional antipathy carried by left-leaning Protestants toward another Protestant, George W. Bush. Truly compassionate Christians are justifiably angered with America's poorly planned occupation of Iraq and the slaughter of more than 50,000 civilians killed in the name of finding weapons of mass destruction (or exporting democracy). . . . But rather than call for divestment from American corporations that enabled the U.S. invasion and perpetuate the United States occupation, liberal Protestants end up lashing out at the eternal scapegoat, Israel."