The World Jewish Congress launched a boycott of the American arm of a Dutch insurance firm. After Aegon refused to join an international panel dealing with Holocaust-era insurance policies, the WJC called on its 200,000 members to cancel policies with Aegon’s San Francisco-based unit, Transamerica.
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