Sign onto an open letter demanding the District of Columbia pass a resolution "to end all current city business and prohibit future city investments and contracts with companies, as long as such companies engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine."

Washington D.C.'s retirement system (the DCRB) currently holds over $159,000,000 invested in companies directly enabling Israel's genocide of Palestinians, including:

• Over $66 million in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GE Aerospace, Honeywell, RTX (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Textron – U.S. "defense" companies that manufacture bombs, missiles, and fighter jets used to carry out the genocide of the Palestinians.

• Over $39 million in Palantir, IBM, Motorola and L3Harris – supplying AI, tools, cloud services, and surveillance technology to Israeli military operations and to enforce apartheid. These companies also provide surveillance tech and AI for ICE and immigration authorities here in the U.S.

• Over $20 million in Chevron and Valero – supplying fuel for Israeli military aircraft bombing hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.

• Over $18 million in Caterpillar, Heidelberg, and Cemex – providing armored bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes and construction materials for illegal settlements that enforce the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

• Over $10 million in Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, and Elbit Systems – international "defense" companies making weapons used in the genocide of Palestinians.

• Over $4 million Bank Leumi, Bank Hapoalim, Israel Discount Bank, and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank – financing illegal settlement construction on stolen Palestinian land.

Washington D.C. residents demand their retirement funds and tax-dollars to be invested ethically, not in companies complicit in war crimes. Tell the D.C. Council & D.C. Retirement Board: Divest From Genocide!

Sources:

• These are numbers derived from the DC Retirement Board’s (DCRB) investment in index funds tracking the Northern Trust S&P 500 (domestic) and MSCI World ex USA Index managed by Maketa for this portfolio. All numbers are derived from publicly accessible data.
• DCRB pension investments: https://dcrb.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcrb/publication/attachments/Quarterly%20Fund%20Summary%20for%20Period%20Ending%20September%2030%2C%202025_0.pdf
• Information on divestment: https://afsc.org/divest
• Information on how these companies are complicit in genocide, and why we are complicit as shareholders: https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies
• The 25 companies cited in this analysis are compiled from the AFSC BDS Shortlist: https://afsc.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/divestment-list-for-palestinian-rights-october-2024.pdf

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