CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina State Pension Fund has sold $6.4 million in Israeli government bonds that it held as of March 2025.

The sale follows a statewide campaign by more than 40 organizations urging the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer to divest from Israel over the ongoing massacres in Gaza and the West Bank. Advocacy groups delivered a petition of more than 5,000 signatures to the Treasurer's Office earlier this year, arguing the investments conflicted with humanitarian concerns in Gaza amid constant bombings and starvation of citizens.

The Treasurer's Office, however, said the sale was not influenced by divestment efforts, saying the sale happened before the petition was given to them, and was "part of a rebalancing which sold bonds with shorter maturities."

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