Tell Ealing Pension Fund to Divest from Human Rights Abuses

Write to members of the Ealing Pension Fund committee to ask they divest from companies enabling Israel's violations of international law

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Councillor Ilayda Nijhar

Councillor Dee Martin

Councillor Yvonne Johnson

Councillor Lauren Wall

Councillor Ray Wall

Councillor Anthony Young

Councillor Ian Kingston

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<div>In the run up to the next Ealing Pension Fund Panel meeting, I am contacting you as a local resident to urge you to take steps to ensure that Ealing Pension Fund is not invested in companies that facilitate and enable Israel's grave breaches of international law. As our local council, your actions should reflect the values of the community they serve, including on human rights and Palestine-related issues. Public opinion is increasingly in support of Palestinian rights and local governments should reflect this in their policies, especially with regards to how the pension fund is spent and invested.</div><div><p>Israel’s ongoing assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians - almost half of them children. Over 70% of buildings and infrastructure has been destroyed, while more than 90% of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced, many of whom multiple times. Palestinians in Gaza are facing imminent famine due to Israel's blockade and its targeting of life-sustaining infrastructure. In July 2024, UN experts reported that “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.”</p><p>In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world court, handed down an interim ruling affirming there is plausible evidence Israel is committing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Israel has refused to adhere to the binding provisional measures ordered by the court. As a State Party to the Genocide Convention, the UK has a binding obligation to employ all means reasonably available to prevent and deter further genocidal acts.</p><p>LGPS funds must immediately divest from companies that are complicit in violations of human rights and international law. This includes arms companies supplying weapons and military technology used by Israel in its relentless attacks on Palestinians. You can find a list of companies supplying Israel with weapons and components produced by the American Friends Service Committee here.</p><p>Human rights organisations, including the UN Human Rights Council, have demanded that all states end arms transfers to Israel. In addition, UN experts have warned that investors that fail to end financial ties to arms companies supplying Israel “could move from being directly linked to human rights abuses to contributing to them, with repercussions for complicity in potential atrocity crimes”.</p><p>Despite this, research by Palestine Solidarity Campaign has found that most LGPS funds hold shares in companies complicit in Israel's violations of international law, including companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology used in its devastating attacks on Palestinians. The <a href="https://lgpsdivest.org/lgps-investments/">research</a> has found that Ealing Pension Fund has investments in complicit companies of £112,896,000.</p><p>PSC's research has also identified that LGPS funds hold investments in companies providing technology and equipment used to maintain Israel’s illegal military occupation, such as its checkpoints and the apartheid wall, and companies conducting business activity in Israel’s illegal settlements, based on stolen Palestinian land.</p><p>I urge you to take immediate measures to divest the pension fund from companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian rights.</p><p>I look forward to hearing from you about actions you have taken.</p></div>

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