Boston University Petition to TIAA CREF to Stop Investing in the Israeli Occupation

To TIAA-CREF:The Expansion of the settlements in and the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem violates international law and prevents a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Several US companies are heavily involved in the expansion of Israeli settlements in and Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, especially Motorola, Elbit, Northrup Grumman, Veolia and Caterpillar. TIAA-CREF has invested many millions of dollars in those companies. We regard those investments as incompatible with TIAA-CREF's pledge to invest "for the common good"

As participants in TIAA-CREF we call upon it to divest from companies that profit from the expansion of Israeli settlements in and continued occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Signed:

Alan Meyers, Professor of Medicine

Assaf Kfoury, Professor of Computer Science

Betty Anderson, Professor of History


Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Associate Professor of Psychology

David Lyons, Professor of Law and Philosophy


David Rohrlich, Professor of Mathematics


John Gerring, Professor of Political Science

Irene Gendzier, Professor of Political Science

John Stachel, Professor of Physics Emeritus; Director, Center for Einstein Studies

Pankaj Mehta, Assistant Professor of Physics


Paul Pelan, Instructor at the Metropolitan College in Sociology and Philosophy


Stephen Marks, Professor of Law

Susan Akram, Professor of Law