What does Jewish Shareholder Advocacy look like?
JLens conducts advocacy with approximately 500 of the largest U.S. public companies on behalf of Jewish institutional and individual shareholders. JLens’ advocacy is focused on…
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The Challenges that ESG Funds Pose to Pro-Israel Investors
For many values-focused investors, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds are attractive investment vehicles that aim to address environmental and social considerations while targeting long-term…
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Largest 100 University Endowments Could Lose $33 Billion over 10 Years if Divested from Israel, Estimates JLens
First-of-its-kind report comprehensively quantifies financial implications of BDS-aligned investment strategies for universities. New York, NY, September 19, 2024 … Adopting an Israel divestment strategy aligned…
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The Economic Risks of Divestment from Israel for University Endowments
As encampment protests riled college campuses throughout the Spring 2024 semester, some universities agreed to formally consider protestors’ demands that their endowments divest from companies…
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The Legal Risks of Divestment from Israel for University Endowments
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…
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The Slippery Slope of Divestment Campaigns
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.…
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Campus Divestment Campaigns: Unpacking the Demands and Consequences
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…
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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 annual meeting. The overwhelming majority…
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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 investors vote against an anti-Israel shareholder proposal…
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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 on corporate…
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