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In May 2008, the denomination's Office of Interfaith Relations issued a statement titled " Vigilance against anti-Jewish ideas and bias.

" This statement reported that " strains of an old anti-Jewish tradition are present in the way we ourselves sometimes speak and in the rhetoric and ideas of some writers that we may read " regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The Church revised and expanded this document in June, removing acknowledgment of such sentiment as a matter of current church practice, instead declaring that the church's current stands are not anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish — in part because they reflect criticisms of Israel meted by Jews and Israelis.

The revisions resulted in a rebuke from the major Jewish denominations in a June 13, 2008 letter to the head of the PCUSA and a similar condemnation in the form of a statement from the denominations and ten other organizations.