{"id":1932071,"date":"2023-05-16T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-bill-would-crack-down-on-woke-finance-company-morningstar-for-actions-that-harm-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:30:37","slug":"florida-bill-would-crack-down-on-woke-finance-company-morningstar-for-actions-that-harm-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-bill-would-crack-down-on-woke-finance-company-morningstar-for-actions-that-harm-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bill targets finance company Morningstar for anti-Israel actions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-bill-would-crack-down-on-woke-finance-company-morningstar-for-actions-that-harm-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Legislature Passes Bill to Protect Israel from ESG Investing<\/h2>\n<p>Florida is taking a stand against companies that work to undermine Israel under the guise of progressive Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) guidelines. The state legislature has approved a bipartisan bill that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-bill-would-crack-down-on-woke-finance-company-morningstar-for-actions-that-harm-israel\/\" title=\"Florida bill targets finance company Morningstar for anti-Israel actions.\">prohibit state funds<\/a> from investing in companies that take adverse action against Israel. This move aims to crack down on companies that hurt Israeli businesses and feed the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/p>\n<h3>Morningstar Accused of Anti-Israel Bias<\/h3>\n<p>One of the companies accused of anti-Israel bias is financial ratings giant Morningstar. Critics say that Morningstar systematically downgrades companies that work with Israel, discouraging investors from funding them. Morningstar subsidiary Sustainalytics blacklists several companies that work with Israel to stop terrorism. The Florida bill could provide a roadmap for other states that want to cut ties with Morningstar over its alleged anti-Israel bias.<\/p>\n<h3>Pro-Israel Advocacy Groups Support the Florida Statute<\/h3>\n<p>Pro-Israel advocacy groups are already lining up behind the Florida statute. Christians United for Israel, one of several groups that have been pressuring Morningstar to eradicate anti-Israel bias, has also raised the issue in meetings with members of Congress. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-passing-partisan-covid-19-bill-says-senate-minority-leader-mcconnell\/\" title=\"\u2018Majority passing \u2018partisan\u2019 COVID-19 bill,\u2019 says Senate Minority Leader McConnell\">broad bipartisan support<\/a> for the Florida measure signals that lawmakers are saying &#8220;no&#8221; to those seeking to use ESG as a vehicle to surreptitiously infect American investments with BDS.<\/p>\n<h3>Morningstar Denies Anti-Israel Bias<\/h3>\n<p>Morningstar has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-interviewed-for-11-hours-in-sexual-harassment-investigation\/\" title=\"Andrew Cuomo Interviewed For 11 Hours In Sexual Harassment Investigation\">repeatedly denied accusations<\/a> of anti-Israel bias, insisting that it in no way supports the BDS movement. It has also taken steps to eradicate bias from its ESG ratings and adjust current guidelines to more favorably rate Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s legislature has passed a bill to prevent state funds from investing in companies that undermine Israel. The move aims to counter &#8220;woke&#8221; investment strategies and anti-Semitic boycotts. The bipartisan bill is now awaiting the signature of Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1932072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3747,5845,5425,10680,5113,17438,4841],"class_list":["post-1932071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-actions","tag-anti-israel","tag-company","tag-finance","tag-florida","tag-morningstar","tag-targets"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}