Hundreds protest outside Wales Pension Partnership meeting in Swansea
HUNDREDS of pro-Palestinian campaigners demonstrated outside Swansea’s Guildhall today to demand the Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) boycott companies complicit with Israel’s genocide.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Cymru estimates WPP, which covers eight council pension funds in Wales, has £1.1 billion invested in companies complicit in Israeli war crimes and illegal settlements in the West Bank.
PSC Cymru’s Zahid Noor said: “Councils across Wales hold a staggering £1.1bn invested in companies that support illegal settlements, apartheid, war crimes and genocide in Palestine.
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