The private sector is often overlooked when evaluating a country’s human rights performance. In cases where the private sector’s contributions to human rights violations are analyzed, an integral aspect is often still overlooked: the privatization and outsourcing of state functions to corporations.

Lawyers for Palm Beach County Clerk Joseph Abruzzo have called on a judge to dismiss an unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to block him from investing county money in Israeli bonds.

Budget-strapped states and municipalities have accrued $1.7 billion dollars-worth of these dubious securities

A Palm Beach County couple with ties to Gaza is suing to stop County Clerk Joseph Abruzzo from buying Israeli bonds. He says the purchases are legal.

Thousands of pages of email records obtained by ICIJ reveal Israel Bonds’ campaign to court senior U.S. financial officials with highly personalized sales pitches and pro-Israel messaging.

State and local officials have invested $1.7bn of the public’s money in Israel Bonds since 7 October. An investigation reveals contacts between buyer and seller that experts say may cross a line

Florida's Palm Beach County has become the world's largest investor in Israeli bonds

Lawsuit charges that Joseph Abruzzo, who has invested 15% of Palm Beach County’s funds in Israel Bonds, is being reckless with public money in order to support Israel

A group of Palestinian Americans is suing a government official in Florida over his decision to invest more than $700 million of county funds in Israel bonds — money that helps finance Israel’s military efforts as it battles Hamas in Gaza. 

County and state governments are enthusiastic investors in debt that is helping buttress Israel’s wartime deficit.

A suit filed against the Palm Beach County, Florida, comptroller for his county's investments in Israel bonds puts a state law targeting socially focused investments in the spotlight from a different direction.

A group of Palm Beach residents are suing the Florida county over its $700 million investment in Israeli bonds. "The people here are the grittiest, most powerful organizers I've had the privilege of seeing," a local activist told Mondoweiss.

After October 7, Palm Beach County, Florida, bought $660 million in Israel bonds. A new lawsuit argues that it’s a bad deal for taxpayers.