Protesters staged a sit-in Tuesday in the lobby area of the Retirement Systems Building in St. Paul, calling on the state to cut financial ties to Israel.

Later Tuesday, organizers of the sit-in said 11 protesters were arrested when they refused to leave the building when it closed for the day.

The group of activists was protesting the State Board of Investment on the same day it held a quarterly meeting. The group, which occupied the space peacefully beginning at 8:30 a.m., had sought a number of demands from state leaders. Its priority was the divestment from and halt to purchasing Israeli bonds.

They also sought the establishment of a task force to investigate and publicly release its findings “regarding the entanglement of SBI investments in the crimes of genocide and apartheid,” ac

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