Due to 'genocide and apartheid': US pulls investments from weapons suppliers to the IDF

The Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council narrowly approved a resolution calling on the city's employee pension funds to divest from companies supplying weapons and technology to the IDF, including Elbit Systems, Palantir, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, citing 'genocide and apartheid'. A broader commercial boycott proposal was rejected.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council, home to Harvard and MIT, narrowly approved a resolution calling on the city's employee pension funds to stop investing in companies that supply weapons and technology to the IDF. The resolution targets companies including Elbit Systems, Palantir, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and GE Aerospace, justifying the move on grounds of what it termed 'genocide, apartheid, and occupation of the Palestinians'. The proposal's sponsor, Council member Aya Al-Zoubi, a Harvard graduate, stated, 'I don't want blood on my hands'. According to the activist group Cambridge for Palestine, the pension funds held approximately $24 million in investments in these companies. A separate proposal to advance a boycott of companies linked to the IDF in municipal procurement was rejected. The decision sparked controversy within the local Jewish community, which feared a rise in antisemitism. Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui emphasized that this is a matter of corporate responsibility, not a religious question. Cambridge is not the first in the region to promote such a move, but the decision carries symbolic weight due to the city's academic and technological identity.