CAMPAIGNERS have called on a Scottish council to divest its pension fund’s massive investments in companies “complicit in war crimes across Palestine.” 

The Lothian Pension Fund, which began life under the now defunct Lothian Regional Council, now not only covers workers in the successor local authorities, but a total of 67 different employers and 79,000 workers.

As pension fund officials prepare to meet at Edinburgh’s Cosla conference centre today, they are set to face a protest outside, as well as a deputation within, demanding they divest from companies profiteering from the Gaza genocide.