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Residents Call on Arlington To Divest From Firms Linked to Israeli Military; Board Says Foreign Policy Falls Outside Local Authority
Summary
Several public speakers urged Arlington to adopt an ethics policy and to divest county-supported economic development partnerships from companies tied to Israel's defense sector. The board said foreign policy was beyond its jurisdiction but acknowledged interest in reviewing county ethics policies and economic development practices.
Multiple residents used the public-comment period to urge the Arlington County Board to adopt an ethics policy and to end county collaboration with firms and advisory bodies they said are complicit in human-rights abuses abroad.
Kishore Mahulikar, representing Arlington Apartheid Divest, asked the board to adopt a public ethics policy that would "explicitly end any and all Arlington collaboration with and support for entities complicit in apartheid, genocide, systemic racism, and human…
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