On April 12, the the Anti-Defamation League and JLens, a Jewish investor network, filed a notice of exempt solicitation with the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to a shareholder-submitted proposal.
Proposal 6 of Amazon’s 2024 proxy statement includes a request that the tech giant’s board of directors commission an independent third-party report to determine whether customers’ use of Amazon services ‘contributes to human rights violations or violates international humanitarian law.’
The ADL and JLens insist the proposal ‘contains information that seeks to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist’ and that its supporting statement, which claims Israel ‘uses AWS to support the apartheid system,’ is defamatory.