Campus Divestment Campaigns: Unpacking the Demands and Consequences
Anti-Israel protests and encampments became regular fixtures on many college campuses in the months following Hamas’s October 7 attack on...
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JLens Team
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Proxy Season 2024: JLens and ADL Engage Corporate Shareholders to Fight Hate
At public corporations, shareholders have the opportunity to file shareholder proposals and vote on issues affecting the company at its...
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JLens Team
- May 15
- 2 min
ISS Joins JLens and ADL in Recommending AGAINST Anti-Israel Shareholder Proposal at Amazon’s Annual Meeting
JLens and ADL applaud the decision by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, to recommend...
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JLens Team
- May 10
- 3 min
Watch: Webinar on Combating Anti-Israel Shareholder Proposals
We are in the midst of the 2024 "proxy season," the period in which publicly traded companies hold annual shareholder meetings to vote...
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JLens Team
- May 7
- 2 min
Shareholders Reject Anti-Israel Shareholder Proposal at RTX
At a time when incidents of antisemitism in the United States have reached record levels, and activists are calling for divestment from...
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JLens Team
- Apr 16
- 1 min
JLens and ADL Call on Wall Street to Reject BDS Proposal at RTX, Maker of Iron Dome, Amid Recent Attacks
In March, JLens filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, opposing Proposal 7 in RTX's 2024...
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JLens Team
- Nov 2, 2022
- 5 min
Summary: JLens’ Campaign to Combat BDS at Morningstar
JLens’ campaign to combat Morningstar’s support for the anti-Israel BDS campaign started in 2020 and is the genesis of the current...
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JLens Team
- Aug 17, 2022
- 4 min
General Mills Added to JLens' Do Not Invest List for Acquiescing to BDS
August 23, 2022 UPDATE - General Mills has notified JLens that they are partially reversing their decision to entirely remove Pillsbury...
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Julie Hammerman
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Morningstar Added to JLens' Do Not Invest List due to BDS Support
Morningstar is a US public company headquartered in Chicago that sells investment research and oversees $215 billion in assets. In 2020,...
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Rachel Cohen and Julie Hammerman
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Morningstar Acquires Research Firm with Anti-Israel Bias
Last week Morningstar, a US-based public company that provides analysis tools to investors, announced an acquisition of Sustainalytics, a...
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JLens Team
- Feb 13, 2020
- 2 min
JLens Response to UNHRC BDS Blacklist
The following communication was sent to CSR leaders at the 300 companies in JLens' Jewish Advocacy Strategy. These companies represent...
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JLens Team
- Nov 27, 2018
- 5 min
Airbnb Abandons Corporate Social Responsibility Values by Acquiescing to BDS Campaign
Airbnb executives acquiesced last week to pressure from the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions”) campaign by removing roughly 200...
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Julie Hammerman
- Dec 14, 2016
- 2 min
Anti-Israel BDS Attacks Fail at Cisco
Unfortunately attacks against Israel in the responsible investing arena have increased due to inroads by the BDS (Boycott, Divestment,...
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Julie Hammerman
- Mar 9, 2016
- 4 min
Internal protest at Methodist pension after Israel divestment
Last month the $21 billion Methodist pension divested from five Israeli banks to appease the church’s anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divest...
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Julie Hammerman
- Nov 20, 2015
- 2 min
Opposition to Holy Land Principles Resolution
Statement delivered at the Cisco Annual Shareholder Meeting My name is Julie Hammerman and I run a socially responsible investment...
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Julie Hammerman
- Sep 16, 2015
- 2 min
Opposition to Berkeley's Israel divestment resolution
Public Testimony Opposing the City of Berkeley's Israel Divestment Resolution At the core of tonight’s resolution is an investment...
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Julie Hammerman
- Jun 12, 2014
- 3 min
Presbyterians: Choose Impact Investing In Peace Over BDS Divestment
When the Presbyterian Church’s General Assembly convenes in Detroit on June 14th, attendees will vote on a resolution to divest from...
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Julie Hammerman
- May 2, 2014
- 3 min
Israel Is Ripe For Impact Investing
"Impact investing,” the act of investing for positive social and environmental impact in addition to financial return, has attracted...
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