The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Presbyterian Church has taken the initial steps toward divesting from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The church is the largest US organization to back a policy of divestment from Israel. Meanwhile the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have launched an investigation into a letter sent to the national office of the church threatening violence for its criticism of Israel. The handwritten letter postmarked in Queens warned, “I promise violence against Presbyterian churches… they will go up in flames… that’s a terrorist threat… there will be bloodshed.”