3 December 2018Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign letter to Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee members Dear Councillor I am writing on behalf of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
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Quakers will not profit from the occupation of Palestine
Quakers in Britain, 19 November 2018 Quakers in Britain has today become the first church in the UK to announce it will not invest any
Read moreThe first UK university to divest from Israeli apartheid is Leeds
Electronic Intifada, 6 November 2018 Update appended below. Leeds has become the first UK university to divest from firms involved in the Israeli arms trade,
Read moreScots pension fund sells shares in controversial Israeli bank
Billy Briggs, The Ferret, August 22, 2018 A council pension fund has sold its shares in an Israeli bank at the centre of a global
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Falkirk Pension Fund divests from Bank Hapoalim
Falkirk Pension Fund, which manages £2.3 billion in the pension funds for Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils, sold off its £6m holding in Bank Hapoalim
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Government suffers defeat in court by Palestine campaigners over boycott, divestment and sanctions
22 June 2017, Palestine Solidarity Campaign The Government has acted unlawfully by attempting to restrict local councils from pursuing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against
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Portland halts investment in Caterpillar
by Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2017 The city of Portland, Oregon, has voted to temporarily halt its investments in all corporate securities after
Read moreIona Community back justice for Palestine and criticise Christian Zionism
by Michael Gray, CommonSpace, 4th January 2017 THE CHRISTIAN GROUPING the Iona Community has declared its support for the ‘Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions’ (BDS) movement of
Read moreUS Churches Advance Effective Solidarity with Palestinian Freedom, Justice and Equality
by Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), 3rd July 2016 The Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly have both made powerful decisions advancing solidarity
Read moreKilling in the name of: Scottish council arms investments revealed
by David Jamieson, CommonSpace, 3rd June 2016 COMMON WEAL SOUTH LANARKSHIRE has released information from a series of wide-ranging Freedom of Information (FoI) requests which unveil the extent of
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