Mennonites and Quakers Leave Churches for Middle East Peace
The changes have been made with little fanfare, but two of the more radical anti-Israel organizations that supported Churches for Middle East Peace are no longer listed on the group’s roster.
The two groups are the Mennonite Central Committee and the American Friends Service Committee. A phone call to one of the organizations confirms that both the AFSC and the MCC left the CMEP in the past few weeks.
Prior to the departure of AFSC and MCC, two other institutions had left CMEP’s roster – the Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Institutes, and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. These two organizations were listed on the organization’s roster in the middle of 2013 but are no longer listed.
As a result of these departure’s, CMEP’s roster has shrunk from 25 members in mid-2013 to 21 members today.
The departure of the MCC and the AFSC was confirmed by the organization’s executive director, Warren Clark.
The decline in CMEP’s membership is reflected in the screenshots posted below. The first is from the Wayback Machine’s snapshot of the CMEP’s membership roster taken on April 15, 2013.
The second is the screenshot of CMEP’s roster taken today (Aug. 28, 2014).
Introduction to CMEP’s Roster in April 2013
Introduction to CMEP’s Roster in August 2014
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