According to the Biden administration we can rely on Israel to determine what accountability looks like in the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. But they can never actually explain what this means.
Morningstar CEO says company “does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign; it never has and it never will.”
Ben & Jerry’s has now sued its parent company Unilever to try to stop it from facilitating sales of ice cream in the occupied West Bank. Unilever’s move to continue sales there undermines the “social integrity Ben & Jerry’s has spent decades building.” According to the company its board voted 5-2 to sue Unilever.
I am such an optimist: for the last year I have been saying that Unilever won’t dare overrule the decision by its subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, to stop selling ice cream in the occupied territories. No, progressives are winning this debate. And boy was I wrong!
The successful effort by the Israeli government and its American friends to overturn the Ben & Jerry’s boycott of the settlements as a supposed “antisemitic” action shows that it is pointless for activists to selectively boycott the illegal settlements. No– boycotts should be aimed at Israel. There is no such thing as a good Israel on one side of the Green Line and a bad one in the occupation. It is all one apartheid state.
Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, has announced that it will continue to sell ice cream throughout Israel and the occupied West Bank. Last summer Ben & Jerry’s claimed that it would end its business in the “occupied territories” by the end of this year because it was “inconsistent with our values.”
Unilever sold the Israeli branch of the Vermont-based brand to Avi Zinger, owner of American Quality Products. Zinger can now sell the ice cream under Hebrew and Arabic names throughout the region, including the illegally occupied West Bank.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed legislation to expand the state’s anti-BDS law, and adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism.
“If Unilever is so interested in virtue-signaling, why not announce a boycott of countries like China, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or especially Iran,” asked Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
At a time when long-established rights – the right to vote, women’s right to control their own bodies, the right to organize, the free press — are all under attack, it is deplorable to see Democratic politicians join those tearing down democracy by acting on New York State Retirement System’s policies that penalize the boycott of Israel.
Members of Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel leafleted hundreds of passers-by in front…