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Hundreds testify in favor of bill to divest state pension funds from companies selling weapons to Israel
Summary
Supporters including faith leaders, pensioners, activists and medical professionals urged the Joint Committee on Public Service to report favorably on H.2984, which would require divestment of Commonwealth pension assets from companies providing military equipment to Israel; witnesses cited human rights reports and large casualty counts in Gaza.
More than three hours of testimony on July 16 focused on House Bill 2984, which would direct the state pension fund to divest from companies that sell military equipment to the state of Israel.
Representative Erica Oudahaven, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee she filed the measure out of “a moral calling,” describing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and asserting that public pension investments currently help finance companies “explicitly complicit” in killings. Oudahaven said the bill would divest from any company selling weapons to Israel unless the company publicly announced it would end such sales…
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