Cambridge Demands Divestment From Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians
Yi-An Huang, City Manager; Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor; Burhan Azeem, Vice Mayor; and City Councillors: Ayah Al-Zubi, Tim Flaherty, Marc McGovern, Patricia M. Nolan, E. Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Catherine Zusy
CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS AND EMPLOYEES SAY NO TO GENOCIDE.
Sign onto an open letter demanding the Cambridge City Government pass an ordinance "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."
Read our report at tinyurl.com/c4preport.
Cambridge's retirement system currently holds over $21,000,000 invested in companies directly enabling Israel's genocide of Palestinians, including:
- Over $7.95 million in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GE Aerospace, Honeywell, RTX (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Woodward and Textron – U.S. "defense" companies that manufacture bombs, missiles, and fighter jets used to carry out the genocide of the Palestinians.
- Over $5.289 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 $2.36 million in Chevron and Valero – supplying fuel for Israeli military aircraft bombing hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.
- Over $1.86 million in Caterpillar – providing armored bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes for illegal settlements and enforce the occupation of Gaza.
- Over $1.7 million in Elbit, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems – international "defense" companies making weapons used in the genocide of Palestinians.
- Over $660,000 in Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi and Israel Discount Bank – financing illegal settlement construction on stolen Palestinian land.
- And More...
Sources:
- These are numbers derived from the City of Cambridge's retirement fund's investment in index funds tracking the Russell 1000 (domestic) and MSCI EAFE (international) managed by RhumbLine for this portfolio.
- Cambridge pension investments: https://cambridgeretirementma.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025-2Q-Segal.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
Follow our instagram at @cambridgema4palestine and read more at our website cambridgeforpalestine.com.
All numbers are derived from publicly accessible data and information requests from the City of Cambridge.
Endorsements:
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Allston-Brighton for Palestine
UAW Local 1596
Jamaica Plain for Palestine
Somerville for Palestine
Palestinian Youth Movement Boston
Boston DSA
Boston Workers Circle
National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW, UAW 2320)
Jafra Cafe
Chitara Pastaria
UAW
Massachusetts Peace Action
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Yi-An Huang, City Manager; Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor; Burhan Azeem, Vice Mayor; and City Councillors: Ayah Al-Zubi, Tim Flaherty, Marc McGovern, Patricia M. Nolan, E. Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Catherine Zusy
From:
[Your Name]
We call on the Cambridge City Manager and Cambridge City Council 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.
Disclaimer: Our research is on-going, there is more to be explored within the retirement system and the city's contracts, if you would like to contribute please find us at @cambridgema4palestine on instagram.