POLITICIANS from across Wales signed a letter to the Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) urging the body responsible for Welsh council pension schemes to end funds investing in Israel’s “genocide and apartheid.”

The letter was co-ordinated by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Cymru and comes as the WPP is developing an “exclusion framework,” which it claims will prevent investments deemed to conflict with its climate, human rights and international law commitments.

Senedd candidates and councillors from across Wales and the political spectrum — Plaid Cymru, the Greens, Labour and the Liberal Democrats — signed the letter urging the WPP to divest council workers’ pensions from Israel and arms manufacturers.

“We write to urge the Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) to ensure that its investments do not contribute to Israel’s grave violations of international law against Palestinians,” the letter said.

PSC Cymru co-chairwoman Bethan Sayed said: “Six out of seven people in Wales support divestment, with 11 councils passing motions. The WPP must act, and it must act now.”

The WPP manages pension funds worth an estimated £26 billion.