Morningstar, Inc.

January 8, 2025 | Richard Goldberg, David May

MSCI Continues Anti-Israel ESG Ratings as Morningstar Removes Its Own

The reliability of the New York-based investment research firm MSCI’s environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings for thousands of U.S. and international enterprises is undergoing critical scrutiny...

August 4, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

State Laws on Israel Boycotts Hold Up in Court

The BDS movement hates these laws because they work.

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,...

July 14, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

States Should Deliver the Final Blow to BDS at Morningstar

It’s up to governors, attorneys general, and treasurers to rid this company of Israel boycotts once and for all.

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...

March 3, 2023 | Craig Singleton |

How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns

American software and equipment—from companies like Microsoft and Oracle—is deeply embedded throughout China’s police state.

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...

January 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Woke ‘ESG’ investors guilty of anti-Semitism as they target Israel

Israel boycotters have a new home for waging economic war against the world’s only Jewish state: environmental, social and governance ratings. Federal and state officials should respond by demanding...

November 6, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Jew-Free Investing

How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG

September 11, 2022 | David May |

Anti-Israel boycotts masquerade as social justice

Morningstar refuses to take responsibility for how its “responsible investment” methods have targeted Israel, after yet another confusion between Social Justice and Anti-Zionism.

July 12, 2022 | David May, Richard Goldberg

Will CEOs Finally Learn Their Lesson on Boycotting Israel?

Ben & Jerry’s’ Israel boycott melted away last month when its parent company, Unilever, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the company’s Israeli licensee, Avi Zinger. Unilever...

July 8, 2022 | David May, Richard Goldberg

Earth to Executives: Boycotts of Israel Backfire

Letter to the Editor

February 22, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Richard Goldberg

Ben & Jerry’s Ukraine Tweet Is Not Just About Russia

Ben & Jerry’s is now a cautionary tale on the dangers of the Environmental, Social, Governance movement run amok.

February 16, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, David May

Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms

End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...