A branch of Israel’s Bank Leumi. Photo: Reuters / Nir Elias / File.
New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund divested from five Israeli banks on Wednesday, citing their alleged funding of Israeli settlements in the West Bank as the reason, and drawing sharp criticism for focusing on the Jewish state while ignoring the world’s major abusers of human rights.
In a statement, The Guardians Board of New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) which manages assets in excess of $36 billion (US) said they had “excluded five Israeli banks on responsible investment grounds.”
“There is credible evidence that the excluded companies provide project finance for the construction of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which is an integral aspect of settlement construction,” the statement asserted. “We believe that without the banks’ involvement the settlement activity would not be proceeding at the scale seen in recent times.”
What do you mean with that?
Nic the NZer …
The virus mutates meaning its specific RNA sequence can change when it reproduces. But hopefully the vacine still works for new mutated virus strains.
This doesn t have to be true however. Flu vacines for example don t seem to handle a wide range of flu variants.
Andre …
There was nothing intended to be about other illnesses in what I wrote. Sacha and Nic both picked up where I explained the control group got something else other than the vaccine that might have more side effects that a pure placebo, which is why I didn t want to use placebo for what was given to the group. But what was given to the control group was different for the different trials. Hence the reason for using the words something else .
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:43 pm, January 11th, 2021 - 22 comments
In September there was a 18 hour flight Dubai that ended in Auckland. A relatively close group on that plane showed infection after arrival, and a genetically similar version. The evidence of in-flight infection is very strong and points to the on-going issues with shipping virus hosts around the world. This has some pretty strong implications for long-haul flights in particular. But also to the risks of having travel ‘bubbles’ without enforced quarantine.
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