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U.S. Retirement Giant TIAA-CREF Rejects Bid to Boycott Israel
(New York Jewish Week) Officials of TIAA-CREF, which manages pension funds for teachers and other non-profit employees, rejected demands from activists Tuesday to boycott companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. CEO Roger Ferguson told the annual shareholders' meeting in Charlotte, N.C.: "This is not something in which we're going to engage."