Israeli Lobby AIPAC
pressuring States to divest from Iran
The money-changers are at it
again! - CR
AIPAC: States should
disinvest from Iran
AIPAC is launching a
10-state effort to get public employee pension funds to divest from
companies that deal with Iran. "If the largest state pension funds
in the country were to divest from companies with ties to Iran, it would
have a devastating effect on Iran's economy," Howard Kohr, the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee executive director, said Monday
at the group's annual policy forum.
"In this next year,
AIPAC will be working with our partners in Jewish and other
organizations to support divestment efforts in 10 states around the
country," Kohr said. He asked the 6,000 delegates "to work with
your state's decision-makers to educate them and ask them to ensure that
their state's pension funds divest from a regime that threatens the
safety of our world."
Lawmakers in several states,
including Ohio and California, already have launched disinvestment
drives. A central plank of this year's policy forum is the isolation of
Iran as long as it resists nuclear transparency.
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