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Presbyterian Church receives arson threat over Middle East policies
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Presbyterian Churches in the U-S have been put on high alert.
This after a letter received at the church's Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters
threatened arson attacks because of the church's policies toward the Middle
East.

A church spokesman says the letter threatened to set churches on fire while
people were inside in retaliation for "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes."

The spokesman says the letter had no return address, but was postmarked Queens,
New York.

The church's General Assembly decided in June to begin the process of selective
divestment from corporations supporting the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the
West Bank....