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Lawmakers in Portland, Maine voted unanimously on Wednesday to divest public funds from 'all entities complicit' in Israel 's assault on the Gaza Strip, making the city the first on the U.S. East Coast to take such a step. Sponsored by the Maine Coalition for Palestine and the Maine chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace , the newly approved resolution contains a 'divestment list' of more than 85 companies, from U.S.
'Just as the people of the world spoke to end South African apartheid with economic pressure, we must do the same for Israeli apartheid and genocide.' In a statement, the Maine coalition called out the state's congressional delegation and the Biden administration for supporting Israel's destruction of Gaza, whose population is facing mass starvation and disease—including the reemergence of polio. 'Generations of families are being decimated by U.S.
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