WA: CUT TIES WITH GENOCIDE

Since breaking the ceasefire agreement in March of 2025, the Israeli military has taken control of more than 75 percent of Gaza, trapping more than 2 million people into smaller and smaller areas of the decimated territory. There, the Israeli government is enforcing a policy of total starvation, barring even baby formula from entering Gaza. Hundreds have already starved to death. Massacres of Palestinians waiting for food aid have become a daily occurrence; the Israeli military has now killed over a thousand people at U.S.-backed food distribution sites.

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RISKS TO WASHINGTONIANS

Reducing exposure to companies that are complicit in these atrocities is not just a moral decision; it is also a financial decision. The fiduciary duty to steward pension funds should look at the risks for the funds over the next fifty years at at a minimum. The short term return on weapons and other companies who are complicit in genocide does not outweigh the serious risks involved in this long term investment. The WSIB is taking a major risk that could result in future losses.