ACLU's Controversial Shift: Prioritizing Military Over Human Rights

The image displays a block of plain text on a white background, detailing the ACLU's internal report on its investment portfolio. The text explains that the ACLU supports divestment from companies profiting from Israeli human rights violations, but its own portfolio includes shares in U.S. defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as well as Israeli companies, and that broad business ties with American firms like Microsoft and Google complicate divestment efforts. The text also quotes the ACLU leadership's concern that divestment would have a 'very significant deleterious impact on our investment portfolio, including an impact on our achieving diversity of holdings, an impact on our overall investment return, and our need to sell our substantial illiquid assets at a significant discount.'

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