The Presbyterian Church (USA) has backed away from calling for divestment from Israel. At its assembly in Birmingham, Alabama, delegates voted in favor of a resolution that calls for church holdings relating to Israel and the Palestinian territories to be "invested in only peaceful pursuits." The church had been at the center of a raging debate over divesting from Israel as a political statement about its relationship with the Palestinians. Some observers credited an impassioned speech by former CIA director James Woolsey, himself a Presbyterian, who said that the church’s 2004 resolution calling for "phased divestment" placed the Presbyterian Church (USA) "clearly on the side of theocratic, totalitarian, anti-Semitic, genocidal beliefs, and nothing less."