by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Nov 5, 2026 | 2026 election, 2026 Elections, 2026 midterms, Divestment, elections, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, midterm elections, midterms, News, Palestine, Rhode Island
On Tuesday, voters in Providence, Rhode Island, overwhelmingly passed an ordinance requiring the city to divest from companies that enable genocide, apartheid, and human rights violations. The ordinance is the Palestine solidarity movement’s first binding municipal divestment law passed through popular vote in the U.S. — and makes Providence the largest U.S. city to vote to divest from Israel.
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by Marianne Dhenin | Sep 18, 2026 | Divestment, Florida, Gaza, Israel, Israel Bonds, News, Palestine, Palm Beach
Organizers in Palm Beach County, Florida, are fighting to stop the county from investing further in bonds that help fund Israel’s occupation and genocide. The county already holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making its investment the largest in the world and roughly three times the next highest investor, the State of Florida. The Our Taxes, Our Needs campaign is ramping up ahead of the county’s…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Sep 16, 2026 | CUNY, Divestment, gaza solidarity encampments, Israel, News, Palestine, palestine solidarity
On Wednesday, September 9, activists from CUNY4Palestine broadcast their findings regarding the City University of New York’s (CUNY) investment portfolio in a press conference in front of New York City Hall. “Following years of campus organizing and after a wave of demonstrations that erupted to protest CUNY’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the students have won disclosure!
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by Joseph Mogul | Feb 16, 2026 | BDS, Divestment, Genocide, Israel Bonds, Michigan, Minnesota, News, North Carolina, Palestine, pension
On Nov. 19, 2025, members of Break the Bonds NC, a coalition of Palestine Solidarity organizations, spoke at a North Carolina Investment Authority board meeting to demand the state pension fund divest from all Israeli government bonds. Immediately after the meeting, the state treasurer’s office emailed a link of the pension’s holdings to Ari Rosenberg, a lead Break the Bonds NC organizer. The $6.7…
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by Michel Moushabeck | Jan 1, 2026 | Apartheid, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, ceasefire, Divestment, Donald Trump, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Op-Ed, Palestine, palestine solidarity, UN, UN Security Council, west bank
Today we have a so-called ceasefire that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis. When it comes to Israel, the word “ceasefire” simply means that Palestinians are not allowed to retaliate against Israeli airstrikes, shelling, artillery, bombs, house demolitions, or suicide drones. In reality, Israel can fire all it wants and has been doing so since the minute the agreement took effect.
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by Zack Kligler | Nov 10, 2025 | BDS, Divestment, elections, Gaza, Israel, Massachusetts, News, Palestine, Rümeysa Öztürk
When voters across the country filed into polling stations on November 4, making choices that could shape their communities over coming years, residents of Somerville, Massachusetts, also had the opportunity to vote on a question of international significance: whether their city should boycott and divest from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza.
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