Does your Kiwisaver fund invest in any of these companies which support Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians? Your job is to find out today…

1. I’d like to see SuperFund challenged.
   I think they’ve been questioned before about their investments in several Israeli banks , but the issue should be brought up again.
   Superfund could be asked to check the entire list provided here. SuperFund invests in the US Motorola Solutions Inc for example.

   Israel Chemicals is not on the list. I’ve challenged Superfund about their investment in Israel Chemicals because of their making white phosphorus.

   Profiteering from human misery is obscene.

   • Go for it Lois

   • More corporate links to Israel ,,,, the tentacles spread far and wide …

     ” News Corp companies in Australia have extensive commercial arrangements with multinational oil and gas corporations. They take big advertising dollars, although how big remains a secret. Their newspapers stage “roundtables” or corporate conferences at which journalists and executives mingle with fossil fuel executives. Yet, rival media Nine Entertainment and its Australian Financial Review masthead does the same.

     Where News is different is in Murdoch’s direct financial interest in oil and gas exploration in the Middle East, investments which also compromise New Corp’s coverage of Middle East politics and Israeli expansionism.

     Murdoch has aligned himself with fossil fuel interests globally via the American Australian Association (AAA), and Genie Oil and Gas. Genie oil and gas is a division of Genie Energy and has been involved plans to frack in Israel. Its big project now, however, is exploring for oil in the Golan Heights, which is disputed territory once controlled by Syria.”

     https://youtu.be/BLj6d81Mz1E

     https://www.michaelwest.com.au/compromised-genie-energy-and-the-murdoch-medias-climate-denial/

2. https://mindfulmoney.nz/

3. This week the Israeli military blocked off the West Bank’s only direct export route.
   The Israeli military blocked Palestinian agricultural exports on Sunday in the latest escalation of a months- long trade war that comes amid fears of renewed violence as well.

   Following Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s instruction, the military said it would not allow the Palestinians to transfer their products through their land crossing to Jordan, the West Bank’s only direct export route to the outside world.

   The Western-backed Palestinian Authority said Israeli forces at checkpoints blocked vegetable shipments that were in their way to export abroad. AP News Feb 10

4. “Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows the Reality of Apartheid”

   The Israeli government blockade on Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan on Sunday illustrates the Apartheid character of Israeli rule over the Palestinians. Palestinian trucks loaded with produce were stopped by quickly-erected Israeli blast walls and forbidden to head into Jordan.

   The Palestine-Jordan trade in commodities such as vegetables, fruits, olives, olive oil, and dates is worth some $100 million a year.

   The step was ordered by Israeli minister of defense Naftali Bennett, who in that capacity is the chief of the Occupation Army ruling Palestine. His rationale is that the Palestinians on Feb. 2 ceased importing goods from Israel, so this measure is payback.

   The argument fails on a number of grounds, however. Most important, the Palestinian West Bank is under Israeli military occupation, and therefore is governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague Regulations of 1907. Full article by Juan Cole at this link

5. “Since its adoption over 50 years ago, Israel has violated the UN Security Council Resolution [242] by entrenching its occupation of the Palestinian territories through illegal settlements. Today there are 600,000 – 750,000 illegal settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories” Al Jazeera link with background info

6. This week in Palestine:
   On Sunday the West Bank’s export route was blocked. Trucks full of farm produce were sent back.
   On Monday morning Gaza was again under attack. The Israelis bombed eight sites near Gaza beach, including naval facilities. Link here
   On Tuesday a pre-dawn Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a senior commander and his wife. Their two children were wounded, as were several others. This sparked retaliatory rocket fire into Israel.
   By Wednesday, seven Palestinians had died and 25 were wounded. 39 Israelis were wounded. Schools were closed on both sides, and non-essential workers were asked to stay home. Public gatherings were banned.
   On Wednesday Egypt stepped in to try and mediate, to de-escalate the situation. Link here

7. I am all for my KiwiSaver investing in these fundsnprovided returns are competitive.

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