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BDS & Jerry’s
freebeacon ^ | July 20, 2021

Posted on 07/20/2021 7:58:22 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

The woke ice cream company veers into anti-Semitism

The left-wing ice cream company Ben & Jerry's announced on Monday that it will stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank and East Jerusalem—or, as the company termed them, Occupied Palestinian Territory.

In a move that perfectly captures how left-wing activism is increasingly bleeding into naked anti-Semitism, Ben & Jerry's said that selling ice cream in the West Bank is "inconsistent with our values."

Yikes.

We're not clear how exactly removing Ben & Jerry's ice cream from grocery stores in the West Bank will benefit the Palestinians. The move appears to be primarily an act of guerilla theater and a demonstration of base prejudice.

The most common expression of anti-Semitism on the left is the application of double standards to Jews and the Jewish state.

Look no further than Ben & Jerry's partnership with Unilever, which acquired the ice cream company in 2000. There is no comparison between Israeli policy in the West Bank and the practices of the world's greatest human rights abusers. Unilever happily does business everywhere from occupied Northern Cyprus to occupied Tibet and Xinjiang, home to Uyghur concentration camps. We won't hold our breath for the ice cream boycott of China or Russia. But hey, there are no Jews in Xinjiang.

This sort of casual anti-Semitism is not a one-off for Ben & Jerry's or its left-wing allies. The company defended its partnership with the anti-Trump and anti-Semitic Women's March as three of its leaders, including the execrable Linda Sarsour, were pushed out thanks to their anti-Semitic remarks.

First, the social justice warriors at Ben & Jerry's assured us the Women's March had been "unequivocal" in their denunciations of anti-Semitism. Then the company issued a mealy-mouthed statement that said little about the Women's March but declared, "Ben & Jerry's is neither anti-Semitic nor do we support anti-Semitism in any form."

Monday's move gave the lie to that blather, and we urge friends of Israel and the Jewish people to vote with their spoons. Morton Williams co-president Avi Kaner is leading the way: He said late Monday that his board would meet to discuss ridding its supermarkets of Ben & Jerry's.

As the new Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, told Israeli reporters, "There are many ice cream brands, but only one Jewish state."


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KEYWORDS: bds; ben; food; icecream; israel; jerrys

1 posted on 07/20/2021 7:58:22 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

as is not unusual on the extreme Left, B & J’s reasoning defies logic. bizarre.


2 posted on 07/20/2021 8:02:18 AM PDT by avital2
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To: MarvinStinson

Ben and Jerry should research the record of Israel vs. opponents over the last few millennia.


3 posted on 07/20/2021 8:02:32 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: avital2

Especially as Jews


4 posted on 07/20/2021 8:06:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: MarvinStinson

Stupid is as stupid does


5 posted on 07/20/2021 8:06:28 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MarvinStinson

Unilever B and J’s owner) needs to be deNazified. Desperately. Ps: they also own Breyers so switch to a good local ice cream instead. Pps: they also own Lipton’s and Dove and Nexxus and Q-Tips and several more common brands. We are stopping all of our unilever purchases. Including Vaseline, about which we will refrain from commenting/ ha!)


6 posted on 07/20/2021 8:06:53 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: MarvinStinson

Seriously? How many people are buying $10/pint ice-cream in the West Bank?

Its pure virtue-signalling and political propaganda from an awful woke company.


7 posted on 07/20/2021 8:07:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MarvinStinson

I am so tempted to go to the store and load up my cart with every single carton of B&J ice cream and then pretend to get an emergency call on my phone and then leave the store.


8 posted on 07/20/2021 8:08:02 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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To: MarvinStinson

Being the woke and so concerned company that is Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, don’t they realize that ice cream isn’t good for you? Obesity and all that.

I guess THAT doesn’t matter as long as the dough keeps rolling in.


9 posted on 07/20/2021 8:08:54 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MarvinStinson

It would be interesting to see their sales figures for the past year leading to this announcement. The sales were more than likely already plummeting. So in the end it was an easy decision with no loss on their part. Its easy to be “woke” when you have nothing to lose.


10 posted on 07/20/2021 8:12:34 AM PDT by zaxtres (`)
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To: avital2

Virtue signaling is the driving force here. The limitations put on distribution of B(utt) & J(am) ice cream specialties really affects nobody but the retailers, and probably won’t even be missed by whatever prospective customers there are in Israel.

But a similar avoidance (I don’t say “boycott”) of B & J products here in the US would go far in sending a message back to the proprietors of that enterprise. It’s working on the NFL. And CNN


11 posted on 07/20/2021 8:44:07 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Sunday afternoon before this was announced. I did the weekly grocery and produce run.

My wife/head chef asked me to buy our annual pint of vanilla ice cream if our produce place had their annual black berrys from our local super market

I bought the black berries and other produce and drove to the super market. I was in the ice cream section and a clerk asked me what I was looking for.

I told her my annual pint of vanilla ice cream. She led me to the B&Js, it was on sale at half price for the pints.

So I bought our annual pint. Most of the B&J’s ice cream was on sale at 50% off.

Later at home I read about the B&J’s bs and wondered if that was the chain store’s way of getting rid of the B&J ice cream.


12 posted on 07/20/2021 9:21:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: unixfox

Sounds like a plan


13 posted on 07/20/2021 9:41:55 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportiongte tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: MarvinStinson

we have stopped supporting the Unilever Nazis (Unilever owns B and J’s)

we no longer purchase any Dove, Nexxus, Q-Tips, Breyers Ice Cream, B and J Ice Cream, Lipton, or other Unilever products

Fortunately (at least so far on the list) there are very good alternative products available for every one of Unilever’s brands, so that not supporting the Unilever Nazis is as Easy as Pie.


14 posted on 07/20/2021 10:40:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: MarvinStinson

This is, of course, only one of the things that devious Democrat minds think of. A move like this would probably do very little but make the owners of Ben & Jerry’s feel like they have accomplished something. Things will be made right some day, but not this way. Would not want to be in their shoes with this attitude.


15 posted on 07/20/2021 11:25:13 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: MarvinStinson

This is, of course, only one of the things that devious Democrat minds think of. A move like this would probably do very little but make the owners of Ben & Jerry’s feel like they have accomplished something. Things will be made right some day, but not this way. Would not want to be in their shoes with this attitude.


16 posted on 07/20/2021 12:50:09 PM PDT by oldtech
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