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...helped isolate apartheid-era South Africa, why couldn't it do the same for Iran? That's the question some U.S. and Israeli officials are posing, as they ramp up efforts to get big institutional investors to divest themselves of any companies that do business with Tehran...
...Netanyahu's efforts are just one part of a still small but growing U.S. finance trend known as "terror-free investing." Modeled in part on the economic boycott of apartheid-era South Africa, "terror-free investing" is designed to isolate countries on the U.S. terrorism list like Iran, Sudan and North Korea by purging U.S. pension funds of the stock of any company that might do business with such regimes. The state of Missouri has gotten its multibillion-dollar Missouri State Employees Retirement System screened to remove what it regards as terror-related investments, with counsel from State Street Global...
...academic community than to have a controversial book,” Murphy said. Crowds braved the freezing air outside the Coop starting at 11:00 a.m., armed with copies of “Palestine” and posters of support. “I definitely believe there is an apartheid,” said Lorraine Grazyb, a Palestinian rights activist, while holding a sign outside the Coop. “The wall is dividing. Palestinians have no rights in their own territory,” she said, referring the security barrier constructed on the Israeli border with the West Bank...
...billion New York State pension fund has not sold any stocks and bonds of U.S. companies doing business in South Africa. Rather, we have been leaders in what you describe as an effective "relentless campaign" of using shareholder petitions to force company withdrawal from that country to protest apartheid. Edward V. Regan New York State Comptroller Albany...
White and black South Africans who believe that racial change is inevitable had hoped to demonstrate in Natal that apartheid could be dismantled by ballots rather than bullets. The province, although it has a low proportion of whites, seemed an auspicious testing ground. Relations between the 569,000 whites, 6 million blacks, 675,000 Indians and 95,000 mixed-raced coloreds are better than in South Africa's three other provinces. A majority of Natal's whites are of British background and are generally regarded as more liberal on racial issues than Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Moreover, many whites respect...