We are writing to formally request that you, in your role as a member of the Investment Advisory Panel and /or Joint Advisory Group for the West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF), advocate that the Investment Advisory Panel, the Joint Advisory Group and the WYPF as a whole should adopt and implement a policy of divestment from all companies which have contracts, investments, business dealings, or official connections of any kind, with individuals or companies involved in the illegally Occupied Palestinian Territories.

We are asking that you, as a member of the Investment Advisory Panel/Joint Advisory Group of the WYPF, adopt this policy under the terms of the WYPF’s Social, Environmental and Governance (SEG) policy, which is contained in the WYPF’s Investment Strategy Statement (ISS).

Using Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has identified a list of 34 companies which the WYPF invests in, that are involved in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This involvement includes: supplying weapons and military
technology to Israel; building infrastructure, such as roads in illegally occupied Palestinian lands; conducting business activity in, or with, Israel’s illegal settlements; and thereby contributing both to human rights violations against Palestinians and to Israel’s illegal occupation.

The total amount invested by the WYPF in these companies is over £995 million. (see Appendix 1)

This list includes:

BAE Systems Ltd supplies arms and military technology to Israel, including 15 per cent of each F-35 warplane used by Israel in its war on Gaza. Israel has 39 F-35s, with a further 36 on order. Israel has used these aircraft, equipped with US-made 2000lb bombs, in some of the most devastating attacks. On 2 September 2024, the very day the UK Government announced it was suspending around 30 arms export licences to Israel, Danish NGO Danwatch revealed that an F-35 was used in July to drop three 2000lb bombs in an attack on a so-called “safe zone” on Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, killing 90 people (see Appendix 2).

The WYPF had over £90 million invested in BAE, as of March 2024.

Barclays Bank as of February 2024, holds over £2 billion of shares in, and provides £6.1 billion in loans and underwriting to, 9 companies whose weapons, components and military technology are being used by Israel in its attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (see Appendix 3).
By providing investment and financial services to these arms companies, Barclays is facilitating the provision of weapons and technology for Israel’s attacks on Palestinians. In addition, Barclays has an agreement with Israel to act as a ‘primary dealer’ for its government bonds. This means it helps Israel directly to raise money
to fund its genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.

The WYPF had over £107 million invested in Barclays Bank, as of March 2024.

Caterpillar supplies Israel with D9 bulldozers that are used to demolish the homes of Palestinians and build illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank, and which have been used to demolish whole swathes of Palestinian homes and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, in Gaza. For instance, D9 bulldozers were used by the IDF in March 2024 to demolish Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

The WYPF had over £17 million invested in Caterpillar, as of March 2024.

HSBC is a major shareholder in companies supplying weapons to Israel, and provides arms companies with the loans and other financial services they need to operate. They also have £100 million worth of shares in Caterpillar.

The WYPF had over £220 million invested in HSBC, as of March 2024.

In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stated that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip justify further investigation and that it is plausible that those actions could amount to genocide. In September the UK Government decided to suspend 30 arms export licences due to concerns about Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners, restrictions on the supply of humanitarian aid, and conduct of the war in Gaza, including the wide-scale destruction of houses, indicating a clear risk of a serious breach of international humanitarian law. In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.

Crucially, in July 2024, in response to a request the UN General Assembly made in December 2022, the ICJ published its Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem.

This states:

Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is illegal

Israel is obliged to end the Occupation as rapidly as possible

Israel must immediately cease all new Settlement building, and evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Israel must make reparations for damage caused in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

All states are obliged not to recognise the Occupation as legal

All states are obliged not to aid or assist Israel in maintaining the Occupation The ICJ also found that:

Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to discrimination on grounds of race, religion or ethnic origin

Israel’s policies and practices have denied the Palestinians their right to self-determination, and that continuing these would undermine the exercise of this right in future

This ICJ Advisory Opinion should leave all companies, and all pension schemes, in absolutely no doubt that business interests involving the Occupied Palestinian Territories are at significant risk of contributing to these Human Rights abuses. In turn, this would qualify as ‘professional misconduct’ by such companies, and so provide legitimate grounds for pension schemes to divest from them.

Not only that, the existing UK Government policy as spelled out in Overseas business risk: The Occupied Palestinian Territories (February 2022), is clear that Israel’s “…Settlements are illegal under international law”, and then goes on to state, specifically:

“There are therefore clear risks related to economic and financial activities in the settlements, and we do not encourage or offer support to such activity. Financial transactions, investments, purchases, procurements as well as other economic activities (including in services like tourism) in Israeli settlements or benefiting Israeli settlements, entail legal and economic risks stemming from the fact that the Israeli settlements, according to international law, are built on occupied land and are not recognised as a legitimate part of Israel’s territory….”

We believe that investing in, or having business dealings with companies involved in the Occupied Palestinian Territories constitutes ‘professional misconduct’, which is grounds for divestment.

We also believe that investments in and business dealings with such companies constitute significant investment risks, considering the illegal status of the Israeli settlements. Therefore we consider that it would be fully in line with the fiduciary duty which the WYPF has towards the members of the Fund, for the WYPF to adopt and implement a policy of divestment from any companies involved in, or with connections to those involve in, Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Finally, we would like to request that you reply formally in response to our request in this Open Letter, in order to inform us whether you will (or will not) support, and also advocate for the WYPF to adopt and implement, this divestment policy.

Sincerely,

Batley & Dewsbury Solidarity for Palestine
Bradford Friends of Palestine
Halifax Friends of Palestine
Kirklees Boycott Divestment Sanctions Alliance
Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Wakefield Palestine Action
Wakefield United For Palestine
Calder Valley Jewish Group
Yorkshire Palestinian Collective
Yorkshire CND
Palestinian Speakers Corner Bradford
Seeds of Palestine Bradford

Calder Valley CLP
Bradford & Shipley Trades Union Council
Huddersfield Trades Union Council
Calderdale Trades Union Council.
Wakefield Trades Union Council
Unite Community-Leeds, Wakefield & York Branch

Richard Burgon MP Leeds East Labour Party
Iqbal Mohamed MP Dewsbury and Batley Independent
Jon Trickett MP Normanton and Hemsworth Labour Party

Cllr Imran Safdar, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Jo Lawson, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Ali Arshad, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Aziz Daji, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Zahad Kahut, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Tanisha Bramwell, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Hanifa Darwan, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Musarrat Khan, Kirklees Community Independent
Cllr Ammar Anwar, Kirklees Community Alliance
Cllr Susan Lee-Richards, Kirklees Green Party
Cllr Karen Alison, Kirklees Green Party
Cllr Alex Vickers, Kirklees Green Party
Cllr Andrew Cooper, Kirklees Green Party

Cllr Penny Stables, Leeds Green Party
Cllr Tim Goodall, Leeds Green Party
Cllr Ed Carlisle, Leeds Green Party
Cllr Mothin Ali, Leeds Green Party
Cllr Lou Cunningham, Leeds Green Party
Cllr David Jenkins, Leeds Labour Party
Cllr Lisa Martin, Leeds Labour Party
Cllr Mohammed Shahzad, Labour and Cooperative Party

Cllr Ismail Uddin, Bradford Independent
Cllr Muhammed Ali Islam, Bradford Independent
Cllr Talat Sajawal, Bradford Independent
Cllr Noor Elahi, Bradford Independent
Cllr Sirferaz Saddiq, Bradford Independent
Cllr Rizwan Saleem, Bradford Independent
Cllr Taj Salam, Bradford Independent
Cllr David Ward, Bradford Independent
Cllr Ishtiaq Ahmed, Bradford Independent
Cllr, Faiz Ilyas, Bradford Independent
Cllr Matt Edwards, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Martin Love, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Ursula Sutcliffe, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Celia Hickson, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Kevin Warnes, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Janet Russell, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Anna Watson, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Ros Brown, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Caroline Whitaker, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Neil Whitaker, Bradford Green Party
Cllr Mozalfa Ilyas, Bradford Labour Party

Cllr Denise Jeffrey Council Leader, Wakefield Labour Party Group Leader
Cllr Martin Roberts, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Allan Garbutt, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Jessica Carrington, Wakefield labour Party
Cllr Jackie Ferguson, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Les Shaw, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Kathryn Scott, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Josie Pritchard, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Jo Hepworth, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Jackie Speight, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Richard Forster, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Anthony Wallis, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Maureen Cummings, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Faith Heptinstall, Wakefield Labour party
Cllr Usman Ali, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Maureen Tennant-King Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Steve Vickers, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Scott Haslam, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Melanie Jones, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Laura Jones, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Darren Byford, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Gwen Page, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Deb Nicholls, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Daniel Wilton, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Julie Medford, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Armaan Khan, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Duncan Smith, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Olivia Rowley, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Helen Antcliff, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Clive Tennant, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Hannah Appleyard, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Brain Mayhew, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr George Ayne, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Julie Craig, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Stan Bates, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Steve Tully, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Michelle Collins, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Jack Hemmingway, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Matthew Mooney, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Lynn Masterman Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Mohammed Ayub, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Stuart Heptinstall, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Natalie Walton, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr David Pickersgill, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Elizabeth Rhodes, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Margaret Isherwood, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Jordan Bryan, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Andy Nicholls, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Shabaan Saleem, Wakefeld Labour Party
Cllr Katrina Law, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Michael Graham, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Kevin Swift, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Hilary Mitchell, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Charlie Keith, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Brendan Fraser, Wakefield Labour Party
Cllr Brian Mayhew, Kirklees Labour Party
Cllr Jakob Williamson, Wakefield Independent
Cllr Peter Girt, Wakefield Independent
Cllr Nadia Sharp, Wakefield Independent
Cllr Stan Bates, Wakefield Independent

Cllr Scott Patient, Deputy Council Leader Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr Sarah Courtney, Claderdale Labour Party
Cllr Diana Tremayne, Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr Jonathan Timbers, Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr Israr Ahmed, Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr Helen Rivron, Calderdale labour Party
Cllr Mohammed Fazal, Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr David Veitch, Calderdale Labour Party
Cllr Martin Hey, Calderdale Green Party
Cllr Elaine Hey, Calderdale Green Party
Cllr Dan Wood, Calderdale Green Party

Hebden Royd Town Council
Cllr Rosemary Hedges, Hebden Royd Town Council Labour Party
Cllr Steve Woodhead, Hebden Royd Town Council Labour Party
Cllr Barry Young, Hebden Royd Town Council Labour Party
Cllr Holly Morse, Hebden Royd Town Council Labour Party
Cllr Nikki Harvey, Hebden Royd Town Council Independent
Cllr Patsi Guilfoyle, Hebden Royd Town Council Independent
Cllr David Hancock, Todmorden Town Council Independent
Cllr Jane Wiliams, Todmorden Town Council Independent

Nick Ruff Chair Kirklees Unison
Simon Midgely, International Officer Bradford, Calderdale and Huddersfield Unison.
Jennifer Norman MRICS, Chair of Leeds Green Party
George Meuller-Waite Leeds Green Party Executive Member

Trades Union Members
Dr. Nicholas Lavani Unison
Sally Young Unison
Tom Shaw, Unison
Kathleen Pitt, Unison
Christina MacDonald, Unison
Martin Richards, Unison
June Jones, Unison
Kathleen Pitt, Unison
Margot Puddepha, Unison
Michael Doonan, Unison
Dylan Wilby, Unison
Mike Forster, Unison
Peter Taylor, Unison
Tom Ackroy, Unison
Mohammed Ladha, Unison
Mehabub Shervani, Unison
Georges Almond, Unison
Nick Hodgkinson, Unison
John Drewery, Unison
John Shields, Unison
Johuna Begum, Unison
Pierce Kajamber, Unison
Jane Thewliss, Unison
Alison Eastwood, Unison
Sally Kincaid, NEU
Dan Whittall, NEU
Mark Pedlar, NEU
Joseph Dixon, NEU
Mohedun Nessa, NEU
Andy Young Unite
Carol Mitchell, Unite
Fazilla Loonat, Unite
Allen Sikoryn, Unite
Ben Charlton, Unite
Mehnaz Malik, Unite
Finn Jensen, Unite
Dilys Beaumnt, Unite
Kath Jackson, Unite
Zsazsa Noszkay, Unite
Nicola Vincent, Unite
Jamil Skhtar, Unite
Rodney Nicholls, Unite
Carolyn Shaw, Unite
Holly Wilde, Unite
Kirsty Gordon, Unite
Dylan Murphy, Unite
Chris Strach, Unite
J.M. Taylor, Unite
Andy Makin, Unite
Jilly Chadwick, Unite
Kat Molesworth, Unite
Chris Preston, Unite
Kirsty Gordon, Unite
Barry Ewart, Unite
Matthew Watkins, Unite
Cath Webb, Unite
Arian Khalid, GMB
Khalid Arian, GMB
Yasar Ahmed, GMB
Waris Ali, GMB
Judith Baron, GMB
Baz Ali, GMB
Mohammed Shahzad, GMB
Amjad Satti ,GMB
Liz Dever, NASUWT
Danielle Marns, RCN
Cordelia Prescott, MU
Scott Hutchinson, MU
Daniel Bath, MU
Robert Orange, BMA
Carine Visser, RMT
Christos Minoas, RMT
Rebecca Allan PCS
Anna Tyler, PCS
Abdul Ditta, PCS
Tosin Ojikutu, CWU
Umair Meer, CWU
Pete Keal, Equity
Joel Hayes, Equity
Alan Troake, Equity
Dr Anja Komatar,UCU
James Sofos, UCU
Samantha Barnsley-Bridger, UCU
Hala Ahmed, UCU
Mary Dailey, UCU

WYPF Fund members/pensioners
David Thorpe
Ella Mitchell
Drusilla Young
Pauline Bailey
Andrew Phipps
Matt Upton-Levy
Barbara Cotton
Maria Yeaman
Sue Mills
Nahim Ruhi-Khan
Rachel Peto
Michael Foster
Kathleen Rowland
Evelyn Gaughan
Tim Snell
Joanna Mingham
John Mc Dermott
Jenny Baker
Thomas Moorhouse
Roger O'Doherty
Catherine Frost
Natalie Harewood
Evelyn Gaughan
Tim Snell
Joanna Mingham
John Mc Dermott
Jenny Baker
Thomas Moorhouse
Roger O'Doherty
Catherine Frost
Natalie Harewood
Andrea Hall
John Shields
Raymond Russell
Gary Mitchell
Stewart Ashton
Jean Whitake
Malcolm Whitake
Rafiq Rehmen
Nick Redding
Freddie Found
Joanna Coxhead
Helen Jenner
Pauline Bailey
David Robertson
Bridget Campbell
Neil Rhodes
Drusilla Long
Dave Roberts
Evelyn Gaughan
Tim Snell
John McDermott
Joanne Mingham
Natalie Harewood
Linda Bratley
P. Holme
Kerry Scott
Ogehi Ofoha
Jayne Mc Grear
Angela Owen
Robbie West
Janet Ward
Heena Mahmood
Martin Ewing
Anne Hiditch
Fatma Saloo
Farida Ali
Lorraine Olsen
Gareth Cawill
Zoe Dijkman
Tom Ackroyd
Jenny Baron
John Watson
Liz Minet
Rachel Peto
Helen Wood
Darren Gaye

West Yorkshire Residents/ Council Tax Payers
Beverley Molineaux, Bradford
Arshan Ahmed, Bradford
Shabina Sultan, Bradford
Nusrat Quershi, Bradford
Rehana Begum, Bradford
Asma Razzaq, Bradford
Madeleine Massey, Bradford
Shaida Hussain, Bradford
Caroline Conway, Bradford
Fiona Moen, Bradford
Elizabeth Allen, Bradford
Jennifer Jones, Bradford
H Khan, Bradford
Debra Coleman, Bradford
S. Dar, Bradford
Jane McEwan, Bradford
Shabina Afsar, Bradford

Helen Tipping, Calderdale
Liz Dykes,Calderdale
Susan Swankil, Calderdale
Abi Upton-Levy, Calderdale
Marian Sedley, Calderdale
Isla Young, Calderdale
Pip Fowler, Calderdale
Molly Tilston, Calderdale
Martin Mc Groarty, Calderdale
Richard Woodcock, Calderdale
Jane Margerson, Calderdale
Ken Isherwood, Calderdale
Yvonne Slater, Calderdale
Kyle Wells, Calderdale
Liz Terry, Calderdale
Yarta Wild, Calderdale
Catherine Prestwood, Calderdale
Joanne Crossley, Calderdale
Chris Manley, Calderdale
Jamie Furlong, Calderdale
Polly Spooner, Calderdale
Lizzie Clarke, Calderdale
Safdar Hussain, Calderdale
Liz Green, Calderdale
Michael Prior, Calderdale
Zafri Hussain, Calderdale
Umar Sajid, Calderdale
Anne Hutchinson, Calderdale
Katie Fawcett, Calderdale
Naseem Akhtar, Calderdale
Andy Smith, Calderdale
Judith Glynn, Calderdale
Philippa Bragman, Calderdale
Andy Clarke, Calderdale
Nimrod Evron, Caderdale
Shad Akhtar, Calderdale
Nick Greenfield, Calderdale
Mohammed Fazal, Calderdale
Nageena Hussain, Calderdale
Carol Machel, Calderdale
Rachel Johnstone, Calderdale
Nagheena Haroon, Calderdale
Alex Chistoforou, Calderdale
Vivienne Slack, Calderdale
Sebecca Hussain, Calderdale
Noreen Akhtar, Calderdale
Tamaisne Rushton, Calderdlae
Samara Clarke, Calderdale
Allen Keep, Calderdale
Jenny Lynn, Calderdale
Michelle Baron, Calderdale
Farzan Ahmed, Calderdale
Mohammed Riaz, Calderdale
Mehwish Chisty, Calderdale
Kausar Shahzad, Calderdale
James Thompson, Caldedale
Janet Alder, Calderdale
Margret Smith, Calderdale
Tony Shae, Calderdale
Mike Barnet, Calderdale
Anesa Begum, Calderdale
John Zavos, Calderdale
Christina MacRae, Calderdale
Alison Wood, Calderdale
Mark Dickson, Calderdale
John Boutell, Calderdale
Ralph Nimmann, Calderdale
Samantha Johnson, Calderdale
Gerard McPhial, Calderdale
Christine Drake, Calderdlae
Jane Smith, Calderdale
Marian Sedley, Calderdale
Michael Prior, Calderdale
Katie Clarke, Calderdale
Sue Turner, Calderdale
Mic Stocks, Calderdale
Karen Senff, Calderdale,
Anne Tully, Caldedale
Margaret Robson, Calderdale
Lisa Zychowicz, Calderdale
Iqra Rahman, Calderdale
Nina Birks, Calderdale
Jane Smih, Calderdale
Helen Blagg, Calderdale
Chris Blagg, Calderdale
Ayub Ali, Calderdale
Marlo High, Calderdale
Katherine Griffiths, Calderdale
Rosina Ottery, Calderdale
Chris Bem, Calderdale
Louise Glatt, Caldedale
Claire Hildreth, Calderdale
Ansar Hussain, Calderdale
Mumtaz Hussain, Calderdale
John Maybury, Calderdale
Jackie Wood, Calderdale
Perveen Hussain, Calderdale
Kath Gilbert, Calderdale
Jake Roney, Calderdale
Judith Glynn, Calderdale
Jan Scott, Calderdale
Jane Hunt, Calderdale
S. Bel, Calderdale
Anne Johnstone, Calderdale
Maura Wilson, Calderdale
Deborah Tobin, Calderdale
Khuram Majid, Calderdale
Julie Trudgill, Calderdale
Diana Forrest, Calderdale
Ron Taylor, Caldedale
Marc West, Calderdale
Helen Hutchinson, Calderdale
Nia Jackson-Owens, Caldedale
Victoria Minter, Calderdale
Melanie Mawer, Calderdale
Penny Boyd, Calderdale
Rachel O'Hare, Caderdale
S Khalid, Kirkless
Nicky Bashall, Kirklees
Stella Barnes, Kirkless
Sonia Hughes, Kirkless
Alexandra Vickers, Kirklees
Lynn Calderwood, Kirklees
Naheela Kausar, Kirklees
Zahra Zaheed, Kirklees
Mohammed Saleem, Kirklees
Yussuf Sadiq, Leeds
Violet Powell, Leeds
Abigail Hodgson, Leeds
Poppy Connor, Leeds
William Fforde, Leeds
Fiona Gibson, Leeds
James Ward, Leeds
Rebecca Simmons, Leeds
James Dickins, Leeds
Kucukkose Zehra, Leeds
Katie Taylor, Leeds
Lee Stead, Leeds
Ian Hobson, Leeds
Nasreen Alhtary, Leeds
David Sellars, Leeds
Frances Bernstein, Leeds
Simon Cohen, Leeds
Colin Noble, Leeds
John Puntis, Leeds
Sarak Kruger, Leeds
Patricia Brown, Leeds
Anthony Riley, Leeds
Nick Hodgkinson, Leeds
Damien Montag, Leeds
Louise McCullagh, Leeds
Dominic Seaward, Leeds
Shaftiq Sattar, Leeds
Carla Hallgarten, Leeds
Javed Khan, Leeds
James Beaumont, Leeds
Fiona Furnish, Leeds
Riasat Ali, Leeds
Nailah Qudeer, Leeds
Darren Lumbar,Leeds
James Dickins, Leeds
Trinity Taylor, Leeds
Tom Fisher, Leeds
Gillian martin, Leeds
Rowen Ball, Leeds
Yusuf Saddiq, Leeds
Emma Andrews, Leeds
Wendy Cook, Leeds
Jasmin Ahmed, Wakefield
Hawa Olpadwala, Wakefield
Zahid Kahut, Wakefield
Maqsood Ashiq, Wakefield
Umar Dadhiwala, Wakefield
Susan Elliott, Wakefield
Anne Pedlar, Wakefield
Imran Binabu, Wakefiled
Sayeed Valli, Wakefield
Sajid Pathan, Wakefield
Mo Pathan, Wakefield
Fiasa Pathan, Wakefield
Ernest Davies, Wakefield
Hamzah Hussain, Wakefield

Appendix 1
Local Government Pension Funds Investments
https://lgpsdivest.org/lgps-investments/

The following is the list of companies invested in by the WYPF which are complicit in Israel’s denial of Palestinian human rights due to their involvement in the illegally Occupied Palestinian Territories.

West Yorkshire Pension Fund Investments in Complicit Companies
as of 31 March 2024, from PSC FOI Request in October 2024

BAE Systems £90,739,111.47
HSBC £220,047,079.94
Serco £5,195,883.00
Babcock International £4,340,190.40
Honeywell £23,997,492.66
Caterpillar £17,396,080.16
Cisco Systems £16,603,632.17
Exxon Mobil Corp £15,641,479.07
Cemex £2,790,818.15
Lockheed Martin £10,796,436.91
Oracle Corp £26,836,491.05
Chevron £15,679,492.13
Barclays £107,784,447.74
Airbus £29,190,989.64
Thales £3,378,072.22
Maersk £2,576,611.61
Thyssenkrupp £511,115.90
Carrefour £4,343,083.04
Siemens £40,585,863.00
Mitsubishi £69,223,932.18
Hyundai £5,371,474.31
Sony £22,976,507.81
AXA £13,597,307.86
ABB Ltd £1,832,695.35
QinetiQ £3,631,750.00
Volvo £10,015,713.50
Smiths Group £13,659,512.44
Chemring Group £3,106,625.00
Rolls Royce £28,031,676.74
CNH Industrial £1,338,832.29
Raytheon £24,297,187.59
McDonalds £16,474,270.00
IBM £3,626,025.00
Amazon £99,547,546.44

Total identified - £955,125,426.77 million

Appendix 2
The Campaign Against Arms Trade report of 6th December 2024 details theUK’s involvement in the sale of F-35 warplanes to Israel:
https://caat.org.uk/publications/the-uk-governments-partial-suspension-of-arms-export-licences-to-israel-and-the-f-35-exemption/

Appendix 3
The May 2024 Report on Barclays Bank’s complicit investments in companies
supplying Israel with arms used by the IDF to attack Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, published by the Campaign Against Arms Trade, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and War On Want:
https://palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/Barclays-report-May-2024-v3-FINAL.pdf