The giant American investment company “Morning Star” and its rating company “Sustainalytics” have reduced the blacklist of Israeli companies from 26 companies to seven, after adding them to the blacklist last April for illegally conducting business outside the Green Line that separates the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 and 1967 to urge investors to boycott them.
This came after the company has been exposed to growing pressure from American organizations supporting the Israeli occupation under the pretext of a possible anti-Israeli-occupation boycott.
Morning Star confirmed that the Israeli arms company “Elbit Systems”, which is involved in crimes against the Palestinians, is still one of the most prominent companies that remained on its blacklist, along with the telecommunications company “Bezeq”, the investment company “Construction”, the company “Elko” for Israeli engineering industries, and others.
According to JNS, the Florida State Board of State and Local Investments and the Montana Attorney General are investigating a potential boycott of Morning Star as a part of an “anti-boycott” of the Israeli occupation.
The Kentucky Attorney General recently asked Morning Star for specific corporate documents for the 26 Israeli companies on its blacklist.
“There is no doubt that governors and attorneys general across the country who launched the investigations have made it nearly impossible for Morning Star to continue its boycott business as usual,” said the pro-Israeli-occupation US counsel Richard Goldberg, stressing the important role of the attorney general’s continued requests for documents in this decision.
“State officials should request all documentation related to these seven remaining companies to understand why they remain on the blacklist,” added the consultant who created the first US anti-boycott law.
The Israeli occupation has escalated its violations and restrictions on the Palestinian people, depriving them of their basic legal human rights, especially with the come of the new far-right Israeli government, led by Benjamen Netanyahu, in November 2022.
On July 3, the Israeli occupation launched a massive military operation on Jenin City and Refugee Camp, as over 1200 Israeli soldiers participated in it, killing at least 12 Palestinians, including five children, and injuring over 100 others, including 20 critical injuries.
More than 4,000 Palestinian citizens reportedly fled the Jenin Refugee Camp overnight on Monday and Tuesday after the deadly Israeli air strikes on the camp.
Days later, Israeli forces invaded the occupied Nablus, killing another two Palestinians and wounding others.
Israeli crimes have been widely condemned locally and internationally, as UN experts described the Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians as a “War Crime” under international law.
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