At the 2025 Annual Conference session, a resolution proposed by the Holy Land Strategy Group and other individuals was passed. The full text of the resolution is available at this link, with the final resolution included below:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the California-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist
Church:
- Calls on our leaders in state and national government to vigorously protect our civil liberties regardless of
their personal ideological preferences and partisan loyalties, - Stands in solidarity with students, faculty, clergy, and other human rights advocates who nonviolently
defend Palestinian human rights and oppose Israel’s crimes against humanity, - Affirms our right to identify and condemn human rights violations, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, genocide,
and other crimes against humanity committed by any government, - Asserts our right to apply the nonviolent economic advocacy tools of boycott, divestment, and sanctions
to situations of injustice, be they in the United States, Israel, or any place in the world, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the California-Pacific Conference opposes:
- The adoption or application of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as policy by any U.S. governmental
branch or office, be they municipal, state or federal, - Equating prophetic and principled justice advocacy with antisemitism or any form of bigotry,
- Unfounded claims of “support for terrorism” and similar accusations and methods to repress freedom of
speech, as well as any state or federal legislation that would enable these governmental abuses, - Plans for destroying the movement for Palestinian rights in the United States as described in Project
Esther, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the California-Pacific Conference will transmit
the full text of this resolution to all members of the state legislatures of California and Hawaii, the
Governors and Lieutenant Governors of those states, the Senators and Representatives in the U.S.
Congress that represent the states and districts in the California-Pacific Conference, and the U.S.
President and Vice-President.