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TIAA-CREF: Don’t Invest Our Pension Funds In Israeli Settlements
September 10th, 2009 Dear TIAA-CREF: We, the undersigned clients, are writing you because of our deep concern upon discovering that TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund) is investing pension funds in Africa-Israel, a company that is actively violating human rights and international law. Africa-Israel, principally owned by real estate and diamond […]
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Why stop with Elbit?
By Amira Hass The question is not why Norway divested from the defense electronics giant Elbit Systems, but why only now, and why only from that company? The country that gave the name of its capital city to what the world thought of as a peace process is still invested in companies involved in construction […]
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CONTRA AVNERY: A Case for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)
By Alan Sabrosky Salem-News.com One should never put down any weapon when one”s arsenal is so nearly empty and the struggle is so uphill. (JACKSON, Miss.) – Avnery has written and done many good things, but on this issue I believe he is wrong. Avnery”s position on BDS reminds me of a Jewish colleague in […]
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Appeal To Get Connecticut To Divest It’s Israeli Bonds
The 13 initial signers listed below ask you to join them in this letter to the AFL-CIO. If you wish to be listed as a signer send an email to mecc[at]comcast.net saying “add me to the letter to the AFL-CIO” and put your full name and a line of identification. If you have a working […]
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A big thank you
Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 4 September 2009 Israel’s wall as seen from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. (Fadi Arouri/MaanImages) 3 September 2009 Today was a unique day in the history of media coverage and discussion in Israel. All the electronic agencies, radio and television alike, discussed the occupation and the oppression of the […]
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On Rationalizing Israel’s Dispossession of the Palestinians
by Jeff Blankfort / September 5th, 2009 Hello Uri, I have just read your response to critics of your opposition to boycotting Israel and, having long ago realized the limits of your activism and worldview, it held no surprises. You have quite clearly invested too much time and energy over the years in rationalizing Israel”s […]
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BlackRock does not wish to explain
The British fiduciary BlackRock refutes information from Norwatch that they divested from a West Bank firm after pressure from Norwegian investors. But the company does not wish to precise exactly what they think is wrong in the coverage. Norwatch wrote last week that the British fiduciary BlackRock had sold its investments which were placed in […]
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Economic retaliationӬ against Tel Aviv
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel”s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal proceedings, so there are calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel tocomply with international law by Willy Jackson, Le Monde diplomatique. The boycott, divestment and sanctions […]
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Norway fund expels Israel firm for barrier work
OSLO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s $400 billion-plus wealth fund has excluded Israeli company Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA) for supplying surveillance equipment for the separation barrier in the West Bank, the government said on Thursday. “We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law,” Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen […]
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Briefing: The investment of the Norwegian Pension Fund in Elbit Systems: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine
This briefing was created for the Norwegian Pension Fund to demand divestment from Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is one of the largest Israel “security” and “defence” companies. It is key in manufacturing a variety of weapons used against both the Palestinian and Lebanese people as well as providing technology used to secure the Wall and […]
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