ENI – The general synod of the Church of England has voted for pulling funds from companies profiting from the "illegal occupation" of Palestinian territories. The synod said it was heeding "the call from our sister church, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, for morally responsible investment in the Palestinian occupied territories and, in particular, to disinvest from companies profiting from the illegal occupation."
• A former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord (George) Carey, told Israel's English-language Jerusalem Post daily newspaper the decision — backed by his successor Rowan Williams — was "a most regrettable and one-sided statement."
Carey joined Jewish leaders in protesting against the vote by the general synod.
• Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, who as archbishop of Cape Town supported divestment campaigns to bring an end to apartheid in South Africa, said the issue of divestment was a moral decision.
"It reminds me so much of what used to happen at home [South Africa]. And I have said there is no way there is going to be real security until there is justice," Tutu told journalists.
