# PCUSA Palantir Divestment Vote On **June 30, 2026**, the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), meeting in Milwaukee, voted **unanimously** to divest the denomination's full stake — roughly **$2.5M** — in [[Palantir]] and GE Aerospace, on the grounds that both companies contribute to human-rights violations. The assembly named three customers specifically: [[ICE]], the Department of War, and the Israeli military. Two days later the same assembly voted **454–15** to describe Israel's war in Gaza as a genocide. It was reported as the first time a U.S. denomination directly and successfully targeted Palantir for divestment. ## Why it matters The dollar figure is trivial against Palantir's market capitalization; the **precedent** is not. The counter-campaign indexed under [[Purge Palantir]] has been built on a theory that Palantir's politically exposed flank is its civilian institutional customers and holders — hospitals, universities, pension funds — rather than its insulated Pentagon and intelligence revenue. A unanimous national-assembly vote gives that theory a citable, roll-call-clean template: a governing body of a mainline denomination reviewed the ICE, defense, and Gaza exposure and concluded that holding the stock was incompatible with its own standards. That template moved fast. Within a month the same argument was being run at far larger scale: - **New Jersey (July 29, 2026)** — a coalition of state organizations formally called on the New Jersey State Investment Council to divest state pension holdings from Palantir, the jump from denominations to state pension systems the campaign had been building toward. - **Minneapolis** — an ongoing push for the Swiss National Bank to divest its roughly $1.1B PLTR stake, the largest single target named so far. Read alongside the earlier NYC Health + Hospitals non-renewal, the PCUSA vote marks the point where the divestment front stopped being a set of local contract fights and became a portable playbook. The holdings side of the picture is mapped in [[Palantir Investors]]. ## See Also - [[Palantir]] - [[Purge Palantir]] - [[Palantir Investors]] - [[ICE]] - [[Palantir ICE Systems]] - [[Palantir Watch Log]] - [[Palantir Events]]