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Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas (Linda Sarssour's ally Anuradha Mittal)
FreeBeacon ^ | July 23, 2021 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 07/25/2021 7:45:50 AM PDT by Conservat1

Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas

Anuradha Mittal founded nonprofit that accused Israel of human rights abuses and defended Hezbollah

Ben and Jerry's board chairwoman Anuradha Mittal / oaklandinstitute.org

Ben & Jerry's board chairwoman isn't your average corporate suit. A social justice warrior who's now under increased scrutiny in the wake of the company's announcement that it will boycott Israel's West Bank and East Jerusalem, she has a lengthy history of left-wing activism that includes publishing columns defending Hezbollah and supporting U.S. funding to Hamas.

Anuradha Mittal, the leading force behind the ice cream company's decision to stop selling its products in parts of Israel, founded the Oakland Institute, which describes itself as an "independent policy think tank," in 2004 and serves as its executive director. The group has published articles defending Hezbollah and Hamas, terrorist groups that seek the destruction of the Jewish state.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anuradhamittal; bds; benandjerrys; hamas; hezbollah; israel; leftyantisemitism; lindasarsour; omarshakir; terrorism; waronterror
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1 posted on 07/25/2021 7:45:50 AM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Conservat1

Ben And Jerry’s flavor-of-the-month :

Mocha Mask.

Next month :

Vaccine Vanilla.


2 posted on 07/25/2021 7:49:09 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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SPJNK.


3 posted on 07/25/2021 7:55:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Conservat1

How does she wind up as a chairwoman at Ben & Jerry’s?! Is that just wokeness run amok or does she also have a Harvard MBA?!


4 posted on 07/25/2021 8:00:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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5 posted on 07/25/2021 8:03:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Anuradha Mittal

Bachelor of Political Science with honors, University Delhi, 1987. Master of Education, Senior Nivedita College, 1990. Master of Philosophy in Education, Oxford University, 1993.

No business experience. She was named Thinker of the Year 2008 by The Nation. Whoa! What is it with these Jew-hating Indians?!

6 posted on 07/25/2021 8:08:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Maybe her radical ideas were not known to the board at the time... but the question is, what is going to happen, now.
7 posted on 07/25/2021 8:08:15 AM PDT by Conservat1
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“Thinker of the Year 2008 by The Nation”

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‘The Nation’ magazine became twisted in recent years. Too bad. After WW2 it was thrn on the right track.


8 posted on 07/25/2021 8:09:37 AM PDT by Conservat1
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Ben & Jerry's is under increased scrutiny for its decision to join the anti-Israel boycott movement, which follows criticism over the ice cream maker's partnership with anti-Semitic figures during the Women's March in 2018. At the time, the company defended its work with Linda Sarsour, one of the march leaders who was ousted for anti-Semitism. Multiple state and local governments, including Texas and Florida, are considering sanctioning Ben & Jerry's and its parent company, Unilever, over the boycott decision
9 posted on 07/25/2021 8:11:55 AM PDT by Conservat1
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“The Nation” has been “twisted” for decades.


10 posted on 07/25/2021 8:12:32 AM PDT by traderrob6
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raises a lot of questions about corporate governance at unilever if they allow nutcases to runs their subs.

no more Breyers, Dove soap, sunlight detergent for me.


11 posted on 07/25/2021 8:19:51 AM PDT by KingofZion
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Going for the under exploited terrorist consumer?


12 posted on 07/25/2021 8:22:07 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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Maybe her radical ideas were not known to the board

Perhaps that IS the reason she is there


13 posted on 07/25/2021 8:27:44 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Conservat1

such evil, evil people should not be permitted to remain in the USA

we don’t need that kind of trash!


14 posted on 07/25/2021 8:44:13 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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15 posted on 07/25/2021 8:48:51 AM PDT by caww ( )
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Companies continue to hire questionable, (to say the least), people in order to satisfy and prevent accusations and law suites that they aren’t diversified.


16 posted on 07/25/2021 8:52:58 AM PDT by caww ( )
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No more Ben and Jerry’s.


17 posted on 07/25/2021 8:55:26 AM PDT by bennowens
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To: al baby

Management got their PC indoctrination at university. This is why most corporations now hire communist types as “diversity & equity officers” inside of their human resources departments.


18 posted on 07/25/2021 9:14:18 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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To: Conservat1

Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield are both Jews.

There is a schism between International Jews and Zionist Jews. This is why Ben & Jerry support Hamas in it’s efforts to destroy Israel.

BTW, International is a synonym for the Left. Look up a song titled “The International”, also look up the “International Workingman’s Association”.


19 posted on 07/25/2021 9:21:15 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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Blue Bell a much better buy than Ben & Jerry’s.


20 posted on 07/25/2021 9:49:05 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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