For many in our media, this last demand is difficult to swallow. Gaza is miles away, they say, so why are we talking about it during local elections? For starters, local government pension scheme funds invest more than £12.2 billion in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of international law, including in the arms companies that manufacture the bombs and bullets used to murder Palestinians.
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