The USA PotatoCampaigns Against Occupation and Genocide Are Winning Divestment of Israel Bonds
Minnesota, Michigan, and North Carolina have dropped approximately $27 million in bonds following pressure campaigns.
DrALJONESReport: To prevent NY purchase of Israel bonds, advocacy group DAWN is prepared to mount a legal challenge:
"Further investments in Israel Bonds... breach their international legal obligations not to aid & abet Israeli crimes & their fiduciary duties to taxpayers."
~Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN
#IsraelBonds #BDS #NYC #USPol #EUPol #cdnPoli #gazaGenocide #press #Mamdani .
Report: To prevent NY purchase of Israel bonds, advocacy group DAWN is prepared to mount a legal challenge:
"Further investments in Israel Bonds... breach their international legal obligations not to aid & abet Israeli crimes & their fiduciary duties to taxpayers."
~Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN
#IsraelBonds #BDS #NYC #USPol #EUPol #cdnPoli #gazaGenocide #press #Mamdani .
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧$27 million in divestment victories.
from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
In #NorthCarolina, #Michigan, and M#innesota, local campaigns have notched #divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.
Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from #IsraelBonds — essentially investments in Israeli #genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling #Israel's violence against #Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the #US. And the momentum is growing...
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Maryland Workers Are Fighting to Divest Their Pensions From Israel’s Genocide
Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.
Ms. Que BanhWhy does it matter?
#IsraelBonds are used to not only maintain the occupation but expand and develop it. The State of Israel has also clearly explained in its SEC filings, that Israel Bonds are important to its actions in Gaza since October 7, 2023 – thereby establishing evidence that Israel Bonds support genocide. That being said, irrespective of October 7, Israel Bonds have and continue to be an integral factor in Israel’s establishment and continued presence as an occupier and apartheid state.
In a recent report from Law for Palestine, the legal organization details how allowing the sale of Israel Bonds constitutes “aid or assistance” to the Israeli occupation, in contravention of the July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion, and violates States’ duty to prevent genocide.
https://law4palestine.org/legal-opinion-on-luxembourgs-hosting-of-israeli-bonds/
Arguably, because Israel Bonds are so integral to Israel’s military, funding Israel Bonds also goes against CRA’s own policy which prohibits support for foreign military. The CRA is also clear, charities are not permitted to support foreign governments: “[G]overnments outside Canada are not [qualified donees]. Charities can conduct activities abroad...however, a charity is not able to simply gift funds overseas without either sufficient evidence of direction and control over the use of its funds, or evidence of the accountability requirements being in place.”
While there is no clear directives on charities obligations regarding investments in foreign bonds, what is clear is CRA’s #legal responsibility under domestic and international law. As an arm of the #Canadian Government, the CRA holds responsibilities as a Third State, as noted above. Therefore, #CRA must adequately regulate the organizations under its purview by suspending and/or revoking charitable status.
Canadian #charities should not be investing funds in or providing direct funds to Israel Bonds because it:
• Supports a foreign military (in violation of CRA policy)
• Supports a foreign government (in violation of CRA policy)
• Implicates the CRA a government of a Third State by providing “aid and assistance” to the Israeli occupation and failing to prevent genocide (both in violation of Canada’s legal obligations).
The CRA must take action to ensure charitable funds and charity investments do not support genocide through State of Israel Bonds.
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Email the #CRA to demand they open an #investigation into #Canadian #charities that have invested in or given money to #IsraelBonds.
What are Israel Bonds?
Israel Bonds launched in May 1951 in New York, only three years after the Nakba. By 1971, worldwide sales had already passed $2 billion, and by 1992, $12 billion. As of 2022, worldwide sales of Israel Bonds exceeded $47 billion. Despite the devastation caused by Israeli’s escalation of genocide in October 2023, in the 30 days after October 7, Israel Bonds secured another $1 billion in investments. Israel Bonds are the main finance source for Israel’s state budget and have been critical to financing the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In Canada, Israel Bonds are administered by Canada-Israel Securities, Limited (CISL).
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DoomsdaysCW#Maine's Largest City Becomes First on US East Coast to Back #IsraelDivestment
"'We urge everyone to join this effort in their own communities,' said the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine. 'Our tax money should not be spent killing women and children in #Palestine."
by Jake Johnson
Sep 05, 2024
"Lawmakers in #PortlandMaine voted unanimously on Wednesday to #divest public funds from 'all entities complicit" in #Israel's assault on the #GazaStrip, making the city the first on the U.S. East Coast to take such a step.
"Sponsored by the Maine Coalition for Palestine and the Maine chapter of #JewishVoiceForPeace (#JVP), the newly approved resolution contains a 'divestment list' of more than 85 companies, from U.S.-based #Chevron, #LockheedMartin, and #Boeing to Israel-based #Elbit Systems. The list also includes public entities such as #IsraelBonds and state-owned #IsraelAerospaceIndustries.
"'The city of Portland recognizes the ongoing humanitarian crisis in #Gaza and seeks to avoid economically supporting this crisis through the city's financial investments,' the resolution states. 'The city council urges that the city manager divest the city of Portland from all entities complicit in the current and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, including, without limitation, all entities on the divestment list when it is feasible and carries no financial penalty to the city.'
"Additionally, the resolution 'urges the city manager to not make any future directly held general fund investment in any entities complicit in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and occupation of Palestine.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/portland-maine-divests-israel-2669135363
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Linking Dot«The campaign pushing US institutions to divest from “Israel Bonds”—unrestricted investments in the Israeli government held by community institutions—is gaining ground across the country.
[Jewish Voice for Peace] members are building power in coalitions from Rhode Island to Ohio to Philadelphia, adding to the wave of campaigning by demanding that their local and state governments divest from Israel Bonds.
#BDS #divestment #IsraelBonds
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/08/02/break-the-bonds-dispatch-from-campaign/
[Jewish Voice for Peace] members are building power in coalitions from Rhode Island to Ohio to Philadelphia, adding to the wave of campaigning by demanding that their local and state governments divest from Israel Bonds.
#BDS #divestment #IsraelBonds
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/08/02/break-the-bonds-dispatch-from-campaign/
Jonathan Kamens 86 47The #IsraelBonds people are literally using the war as a fundraiser. I live in Boston, but for some inexplicable reason the Israel Bonds office in New Jersey decided to add me to their mailing list and send me a flyer for an event they're having, "#Israel Bonds has launched an international campaign to raise funds for the Jewish state that is at war." This is what I sent back before reporting them for spamming:
#Gaza
#Gaza
