Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Votes to Divest from Palantir Technologies and GE Aerospace

June 28, 2026 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The 227th General Assembly (GA) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted unanimously today to divest from Palantir Technologies and GE Aerospace. The denomination is the first institution to successfully target these companies for divestment. 

The Presbyterian Board of Pensions and Presbyterian Foundation will sell off its holdings in these two companies at some point in the near future. Neither entity responded to inquiries about the total value of the stock held in Palantir or GE Aerospace.

The GA is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on an overture that would have the church identify the Israeli war in Gaza as a genocide, lobby Congress for an arms embargo against Israel, and encourage Presbyterians to boycott Israeli products that contribute to the genocide. Commissioners will also vote that same afternoon on a commissioners’ resolution to affirm Kairos Palestine II: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, a November 2025 statement from Palestine’s Christian community, which calls for intensified international boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.

“We are pleased that the denomination has taken meaningful steps to address the genocide and other gross human rights abuses against Palestinians and others around the world,” said the Rev. Marietta Macy, the co-moderator of the Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which organized much of the support for these overtures. “Our Palestinian partners, in both the Christian and Muslim communities, have been asking us since 2005 to employ boycotts, divestment, and sanctions to help them gain their full slate of human rights,” Macy added. 

“We are proud of the work that we have done at this General Assembly,” said Yasmina H., a member of the Palestine Justice Network steering committee. “And we acknowledge that we still have a lot more work to do. We promise to continue following our Palestinian siblings’ lead and amplifying their voices until the day they can finally enjoy the just peace that they rightfully deserve.”

The church’s decision to divest from Palantir and GE Aerospace follows two years of shareholder engagement by the church’s committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment. The companies were selected for engagement by the previous General Assembly due to their contribution to human rights violations in the United States, Palestine, India, Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. 

GE Aerospace makes the engines for the fighter jets and Apache helicopters that the Israeli military uses to drop bombs on residential buildings in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The company also makes the engines used by the Saudi Royal Air Force in their war on Yemen.  

Palantir has partnered with ICE to help detain and deport people in the U.S. and with the Israeli military to help determine whom to kill in the Gaza genocide. 

“I urge you to support any proposal that does not connect a church with weapons,” Emily D., a Palestinian Christian born and raised in Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, told commissioners during the public hearings for this overture. “Is this what Jesus wants?” she asked commissioners. Members of her family “were sheltering in the Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza when an Israeli airstrike killed 11 of my relatives, including two doctors and a six-month old baby,” she said to commissioners. 

The Rev. Addie Domske, a Presbyterian minister from Pittsburgh, PA and a member of the PJN steering committee, also spoke to commissioners ahead of the vote. “You are doing some of the most theological work that will happen at this Assembly,” she said. “Palantir’s technology has been an essential instrument in the desecration of Gaza.” As someone whose PC(USA) pension was invested in Palantir, Domske urged commissioners to vote to divest. “Please support this overture so that the money in my pension fund does not also fund the murder of entire [Palestinian] families asleep in their homes at night.”

Vicky M., of Make the Road New Jersey, also spoke about Palantir during the open hearings. “I have lived in this country for 35 years,” she said. But Palantir’s databases have empowered ICE to potentially separate her from her children. “While we struggle to make ends meet, while we fear for our families and watch as ICE abducts people right off the street, Palantir is raking in billions of dollars through government contracts. That is why we must stop investing in Palantir,” she said. 

The Rev. Dr. Shannon Smythe, a member of the PJN steering committee, said after the vote, “Our denomination’s decision to divest from Palantir and GE Aerospace demonstrates our clear commitment to confront our own economic complicity in grave human rights violations—both in Palestine and within our own nation. By taking this step, we refuse to legitimize or normalize systems of oppression, including Israel’s settler-colonial occupation and genocide and anti-immigrant and racist surveillance in the United States.” 

“This action is not symbolic,” Smythe added. “It is a tangible expression of our faith, which calls us to enact the logic of love and nonviolence. Guided by this moral vision, we act with conviction—choosing accountability, solidarity, and the transformative power of justice-centered love.”

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was the first major institution in the world to divest from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory when it divested from HP, Motorola, and Caterpillar in 2014. The denomination also divested from Israeli bonds in 2024. And the church has been divesting since the 1970s from companies that are involved in a broad range of social, environmental, and geopolitical injustices. 

The Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partnered with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, American Friends Service Committee, Friends of Sabeel North America, Make the Road New Jersey, and the Purge Palantir coalition to help pass this overture.

Media contacts:
Bob Ross
Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Steering Committee member
281-772-8069
info@thepjn.org

Rev. Marietta Macy
Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Co-Moderator
info@thepjn.org

Rev. Ron Shive
Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Co-Moderator
info@thepjn.org

Rev. Addie Domske
Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Steering Committee member
Friends of Sabeel North America, National Field Organizer
addiedomske@fosna.org