Updates from the palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): Posted by Ben White at Middle East Monitor

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Following recent decisions by major European investment funds to cut ties with Israeli entities, the announcement last week by Dutch pension fund ABP that it was not excluding Israeli banks was greeted with some relief by Israel and its lobby groups.

In explaining this decision, ABP claimed that the three banks in which it has investments, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi and Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot, "themselves do

February 12, 2014
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Israel has asked the British government to "lean on universities to prevent their participation in academic boycotts of the country", according to a report in The Times.

In a meeting this week with the UK's Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, Israeli Science Minister Yaakov Peri slammed the academic boycott campaign, and urged Willetts to "to try and put so