Edited sentence: "   The material was written by Mary Davis, who has served as a United Methodist missionary in “Palestine.According to the Anti-Defamation League, a Church report, "Israel-Palestine: A 2007–2008 Mission Study," equates Jews with "monsters" and compares the actions of the Israeli government to Nazis.According to the Forward, the report referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the “original sin.Ethan Felson, assistant executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, said, “These developments are a result of work of several very wicked forces that play in the church.Even if anti-Israel divestment were constructive, which it's not, why jump on a stalled band wagon.Four national Jewish women's groups have called the report “inflammatory, inaccurate, and polemical.In January 2008, the Church began discussion of a proposal to divest form Caterpillar, because Israel used Caterpillar tractors to destroy illegal arms smuggling tunnels.Mark Tooley, Director of United Methodist Action at the Institute for Religion and Democracy has also criticized material prepared by the  United Methodist Women’s Division for children's Sunday Schools that are "intended to instill anti-Israel themes among Methodist younsters.Mark Tooley, Executive Director of United Methodist Action said, "The United Methodist church is discussing anti-Israel divestment when other church groups are moving in the opposite direction.Methodist political activist Susanne Hoder is a leader of the divestment movement.Political activists have begun using the United Method Church as the stage for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activism.The Jewish Council for Public Affairs has called on the Church to consider retracting material that serves to "demonize" the Jewish State.The report uses the word "terrorism" to describe Israeli actions, but describes the actions of Palestinian Arabs as "activism," never as terrorism.” Dexter van Zile has written that the report "Maligns Israel, Stereotypes Jews.” The report called David Ben-Gurion an “extremist” and claimed that Jewish reaction to the Holocaust is mere "hysteria” causing an unrealistic “paranoiac sense” among Israelis