{"id":662121,"date":"2026-10-30T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662121\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:38:17","slug":"cambridge-ma-council-to-divest-from-firms-linked-to-israel-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662121\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge, MA council to divest from firms linked to Israel army"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city council in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted 5-4 on Wednesday in favour of divesting public funds from companies complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Our retirement funds should not be invested in companies that profit off of killing people,” Cambridge City Councilor Ayah Al-Zubi, who voted in favour of divestment, told\u00a0NBC Boston.<\/p>\n

The vote will impact the council’s public investments, including for pensions. The vote will impact at least $24 million of investments, according to campaign group Cambridge for Palestine.<\/p>\n

The firms targeted by the new policy include Palantir Technologies Inc., Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, and Boeing.<\/p>\n

“Our wins are one small step in the much larger international struggle for Palestinian liberation,” Cambridge for Palestine said in statement after the vote.<\/p>\n

The policy order stated that “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza”, and said Israel’s treatment of Palestinians “amounts to apartheid” \u2014 positions held by UN experts and leading rights groups.<\/p>\n

Orphan Black\u00a0and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law\u00a0star Tatiana Maslany celebrated the news with an Instagram post captioned “Hell yes @cambridgema4palestine !!!!!!!!!!”<\/p>\n

However, the council voted down a boycott of companies complicit in the genocide for city contracts. Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem, who voted in favour of divestment, was the deciding vote against the boycott.<\/p>\n

Cambridge follows three other Massachusetts councils — Medford, Northampton and Easthampton — in divesting from complicit companies. Neighbouring Somerville City Council is set to vote on similar action in November.<\/p>\n

Cambridge, part of the Greater Boston area, is home to two of the world’s top universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n

Last year, Harvard University faced a legal battle with US President Donald Trump after the president cut funding for the Ivy League institution and blocked visas for international students.<\/p>\n

The president claimed the university is an\u00a0“antisemitic, far left institution”, following pro-Palestine protests on campus.<\/p>\n

In July 2025, a Boston judge blocked<\/a> Trump’s attempts to bar foreign students from studying at Harvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city council in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted 5-4 on Wednesday in favour of divesting public funds from companies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[273569,18379,85,46,17789,43,243768],"class_list":["post-662121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-divestment","tag-harvard-university","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-massachusetts","tag-news","tag-us-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}