There are many reasons why it’s a bad idea for university endowments to divest from Israel. Divestment serves to delegitimize Israel and puts the onus…
Let’s say that a university decides to acquiesce to the demands of anti-Israel protestors and divest its endowment from companies with business ties to Israel.…
September 19, 2024 UPDATE – Anti-Israel protests and encampments became regular fixtures on many college campuses in the months following Hamas’s October 7 attack on…
At public corporations, shareholders have the opportunity to file shareholder proposals and vote on issues affecting the company at its annual meeting. The overwhelming majority…
JLens and ADL applaud the decision by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, to recommend investors vote against an anti-Israel shareholder proposal…
At a time when incidents of antisemitism in the United States have reached record levels, and activists are calling for divestment from Israel across college…
In March, JLens filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, opposing Proposal 7 in RTX’s 2024 proxy statement. The…
JLens’ campaign to combat Morningstar’s support for the anti-Israel BDS campaign started in 2020 and is the genesis of the current advocacy efforts with Morningstar.…
September 12, 2023 UPDATE – Morningstar is a US public company headquartered in Chicago that sells investment research and oversees $215 billion in assets. In 2020,…