Divesting from Israel’s Genocide

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Join us on April 1 to learn about:

1. The specific weapons that Israel is employing to maintain its apartheid system and for its assault on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

2. The military contractors who produce and provide these weapons to Israel – especially those here in Massachusetts.

3. How divestment campaigns work and how they can function to push for an end to U.S. war aid to Israel.

4. The Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature (H.D.3630) to divest the Mass. State Pension Plan from companies selling weapons to Israel and Mass. Peace Action’s divestment campaign focused on pressuring the Mass. State Pension Fund and Massachusetts Universities to divest their holding in companies that provide these weapons to Israel.

Noam Perry is AFSC’s Economic Activism associate and one of the creators of Investigate, AFSC’s project that aims to expose corporate involvement in oppressive state violence structures and to promote standards for corporate social responsibility and respect for human rights. Its research efforts focus on corporations involved in incarceration and immigrant detention, the Israeli occupation, and the border industries. These are AFSC program focus areas, where there is an identified lack of available resources, coupled with explicit requests for such resources from the movements we work with. The Investigate project reaches out to the responsible investment community, to community activists, and to interfaith partners with information and tools for corporate engagement, corporate accountability, and divestment initiatives, to support the building of wide movements that can influence, limit, and monitor corporate abuse.

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