Local authority pension funds will no longer be able to support boycott actions The British government has begun the process of enacting a law to ban the anti-Israeli boycott movement BDS (Boycott, Partition, Sanction) in the UK. according to this Jewish ChronicleAn amendment by Tory MP Rob Jenrick was passed with government backing to prevent the Local Authority Pension Fund from supporting BDS actions against UK businesses involving Israel. In December 2021, Rob Jenrick indicated that the government would seek to ban BDS on its spring legislative agenda. In May 2020, the Supreme Court overruled the previous government’s initiative to...