SOLIDARITY campaigners launched a petition today calling on Cardiff City Council to divest from companies complicit in criminal activity against Palestinians. 

Cardiff Palestinian Solidarity Campaigners claimed the council’s pension fund invests £111 million in companies actively linked to Israel’s war against Palestinians and its illegal occupation of Palestinian land in Gaza and The West Bank.

PSC Cardiff said the objective was to encourage those companies to cut their support for the apartheid Israel regime and its 14-month-long genocidal war.