Financial Giant Says Any Company Working in ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ Violates Human Rights

Assessment: Morningstar research arm may downgrade companies for working in disputed areas of Israel … A financial services giant builds its ratings around the premise that any entity operating in “occupied Palestinian territories” is connected to human rights violations—a standard that one foreign policy analyst says is a key pillar of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which tries to gin up an economic boycott of the Jewish state. The research arm of Morningstar Inc., a