Palantir Divestment campaign launch and actions

Please join us for the launch of the Break the Bonds NJ campaign to divest our pension money from Palantir. Due to our efforts, the NJ State Investment Council divested $5 million of the $20 million in Israel Bonds that came due last fall. It is a minor victory but we intend to keep up the pressure to divest from all Israel Bonds as they come due. The next installment does not mature until 2028. In the meantime, our focus will be on Palantir.

The NJ Division of Investment has used our taxpayer and pension funds to invest over $140 million in the AI surveillance and military tech private company Palantir. In 2024, Palantir entered into a “partnership” with the Israeli military to provide tools that are facilitating the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Palantir also has long-standing contracts with ICE to provide the software that powers the targeting, kidnapping, and detention of our neighbors, terrorizing our communities. Palantir is a company that has made windfall profits off of destroying lives and communities at home and abroad. 

Here’s 3 actions you can take to support this campaign to divest NJ from Palantir:

1. Join us to launch the campaign on Tax Day, Wednesday, April 15th at Monument State Park at 2 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Please share and spread this flyer to everyone in your contacts. Hope to see you there! 

2. Sign the letter campaign targeting the State Investment Council members, the Chief Investment Officer, the Treasurer, and the Governor. Demand that they divest our pension and tax funds from Palantir:

3. Speak and make your outrage heard at the next State Investment Council meeting on Wednesday, April 29th: Register at this link for virtual meeting: https://www.nj.gov/treasury/assets/contact/doinvest/contact-sc.shtml

See additional resources below:

Thank you.

Break the Bonds NJ Campaign

• Palantir Technologies Inc.,
  Investigation by the American Friends Service Committee
• “Palantir and Israel agree to strategic partnership for battle tech,”
  Article by Bloomberg.com
• “Thiel’s Palantir dumped by Norwegian investor over work for Israel,”
  Article by Reuters.com
• “Gaza: Israeli military’s digital tools risk civilian harm,“
  Human Rights Watch
• “Palantir’s AI Is Already Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries,”
  Drop Site News
• “Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies,”
  +972 Magazine
• “AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils,”
  +972 Magazine