February 9, 2023

Pro-Israel groups continue to press Morningstar on anti-Israel investment bias

At Morningstar, Inc. in Chicago, August 20, 2019. Source: Facebook. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — A coalition of U.S. Jewish and pro-Israel groups is treading carefully while pursuing unfulfilled commitments from investment firm Morningstar, Inc. in the way it assigns […]
October 31, 2022

Morningstar announces substantive changes to how it rates Israeli companies

Morningstar financial-services building in downtown Chicago. Credit: Adriana.Macias/Shutterstock. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Following an extended period of wrangling, the investment firm Morningstar reached an agreement on Oct. 31 with pro-Israel organizations to alter its methodology in rating the risk […]
August 18, 2022

FIFA World Cup Hospitality Website Continues to List “Palestine” Instead of Israel

Soccer ball. Credit: Needpix.com. (JNS) — The FIFA World Cup, which is set to take place in Qatar from Nov. 21 through Dec. 18, has a website that offers the public help in purchasing hospitality packages, but Israelis looking for […]
August 11, 2022

Several states examining “backdoor BDS” at investment ratings firm Morningstar

Morningstar financial-services building in downtown Chicago. Credit: Adriana.Macias/Shutterstock. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Following last week’s Reuters report that Missouri’s attorney general opened an investigation into the practices of the Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar and its subsidiary, Sustainalytics, multiple […]
July 7, 2022

Losing the semantic battle but winning the war against BDS

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — One aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is literally a war of words. Words are powerful weapons, and both sides seek the adoption of their preferred nomenclature to influence public opinion. Israel and its supporters have […]
July 1, 2022

BDS loses as Unilever ends Ben & Jerry’s boycott in the territories

Ben & Jerry’s Israel franchisee Avi Zinger. Credit: Eric Sultan. by Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) — The ice-cream battle between Ben & Jerry’s and its Israeli distributor may have been resolved, but the repercussions continue to reverberate in what many considered […]
April 28, 2022

Israel must be so clean, as haters accuse country of “washing” everything

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism is increasingly recognized as authoritative. It states simply: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and […]
February 6, 2022

Israel’s justice minister approves sanctions against Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream in a grocery-store freezer. Credit: Ho Su A Bi/Shutterstock.com. (JNS) — Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar approved on Feb. 5 the sanctioning of ice-cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever Global, for its […]
January 8, 2022

Alabama can combat anti-Israel hate by divesting from Unilever

Unilever Canada sign on their head office in Toronto, Canada. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock. by Brandy Gibson Something is rotten in Vermont. Ben & Jerry’s, perhaps the state’s most iconic global brand, decided in July to embrace and participate in the global […]
January 3, 2022

Stand up for Israel and against “Pillay’s Pogrom” at the U.N.

by Anne Bayefsky (JNS) — The so-called U.N. “Human Rights” Council has initiated an anti-Israel venture to outdo the legions of all U.N. anti-Israel schemes ever devised. Deceitfully labeled a “Commission of Inquiry,” it is headed by former U.N. High […]
November 23, 2021

A dozen Attorneys General press Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s boycott

The Attorneys General of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas are among 12 signatories to a letter by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt calling out Unilever for failing to take action against the Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel. Thus far, […]