Tutu: Huge Dutch Pension Fund Must Stop Israel Investments

[Purveyor]

South African Nobel prize winner and anti apartheid activist Desmond Tutu wrote in a public letter to the Dutch Pension Fund that ABP must withdraw from Israel, Het Parool reports.

ABP is the third largest pension fund in the world.

Tutu wrote that ABP’s board must make a choise. They can either blindly keep to the facts and stick to the claim that somehow ABP’s investments are shielded from the ever restricting Israeli occupation, or join the growing movement for divestment.

If they choose the latter, ABP will, according to the former Archbishop, reduce risks, respect international laws and make a strong, non-violent contribution to peace in the Middle East.

According to Tutu, ABP must not put any more money in the three Israeli banks, because they finance “illegal” Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory. If ABP continues to invest in these banks, they will be violating human rights.

more...

http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/08/28/tutu-huge-dutch-pension-fund-must-stop-israel-investments/

[el_bryanto]

1. That's a strong response.

I don't know if it will have an effect, but it makes a lot of sense.

Bryant

[MrNJ]

2. ... and the workers who invested into the funds be damned.

As well as Israeli companies that continue to produce innovations in important fields like healthcare and computers.

[Purveyor]

3. Would that position been appropriate for the gov'ts that exacted atrocities

on innocent civilians during WWII?

I heard Germany came up some damn good 'innovations' themselves.