The growing popularity of the Call to Boycott, Divestment, and place Sanctions on Israel (BDS), a movement which in their words is Palestinian civil society calling upon their counterparts and people of conscience all over the world to launch broad boycotts, implement divestment initiatives, and to demand sanctions against Israel, until Palestinian rights are recognized in full compliance with international law invites the perception that divestment is among a few effective ways to react to Israeli violations. While it may be true, divestment remains the subject of highly polarized debates. In April of 2012 Pastor Thomas Prinz and Assistant to Bishop Karl-John Stone articulated why the Episcopal Church in America opted to positively invest rather than divest from Israel, which the United Methodist Church would similarly vote to do the next month. They argued that boycott and divestment are focused on tearing down and punishing one side in a complex conflict rather than on promoting constructive solutions to the conflict and improving lives.