Bruce Rauner

April 11, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

MSCI ESG Ratings May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter on March 28 to financial analytics firm MSCI Inc. following a report the firm may be imposing punitive environmental,...

November 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief 

Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...

June 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Don’t Stop Digging Into Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

Few Americans have probably heard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Last week, the IAEA’s board of governors convened in Vienna to hear from its director...

May 3, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero, Richard Goldberg

Iran’s Meaningless Concession Ahead of Key Nuclear Meeting

Iran has begun reinstalling surveillance cameras and monitoring technologies at key nuclear sites ahead of a June International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, according to a reporter for The Wall...

April 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Morningstar Blacklist May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) this week reported that Sustainalytics — the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. — imposes negative “controversy” ratings on...

February 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran

This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Europe “identifies more with the Israeli position” on Iran’s nuclear program, a conclusion he reached after meeting with French...

February 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t Dead

The State Department is fighting to keep it alive, even if an agreement benefits Russia and China.

February 7, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Morningstar Misleads Investors on Its Anti-Israel Bias — Again

The investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. committed last October to making changes to its Sustainalytics environmental, social, and governance (ESG) subsidiary’s research in response to FDD’s ongoing...

December 7, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, Will Kielm

How Biden, Congress can stop the UN from legitimizing antisemitism

United Nations officials urged countries in October and November to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, the global benchmark for identifying...

November 6, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Jew-Free Investing

How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG

December 14, 2018 | David May |

Illinois Moves to Blacklist Airbnb

Following a request by Governor Bruce Rauner, the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB) on Wednesday unanimously voted to...

May 27, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Longest Hatred

Robert S. Wistrich, who died suddenly last week, was considered the foremost scholar of anti-Semitism, which he called “the longest hatred,” one that appears to be metastasizing in th...