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Fashion designer Kenneth Cole defended his brother-in-law Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his "exemplary public service" following a New York attorney general investigation that found Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple women. "Do we all not remember the extraordinary clarity @govnycuomo brought everyone at a time of such confusion & despair and light at a time of such darkness," Cole, who is married to the Democratic governor’s younger sister Maria Cuomo Cole, wrote on Twitter Thursday. "Do people really feel that after 40 yrs of exemplary public service, ones legacy should be extinguished without due process?" the fashion mogul of Kenneth Cole...

The owner of a Ben & Jerry’s shop on the Upper West Side was so chilled by the parent company’s freeze on ice cream sales in the West Bank that he’s vowing to donate a portion of his proceeds to help Israel. Joel Gasman, who runs the store on West 104th Street and Broadway, said he can’t stomach the boycott imposed last week in Israeli-occupied areas — claiming it’s caused his business in the Big Apple to tank. "We couldn’t sit back and watch without speaking up," Gasman told The Post on Thursday.

In a poignant episode of instant payback, or what the Biblically minded call possible divine retribution. The story began when Ben and Jerry’s, a Vermont-based multinational ice cream company, announced that it would no longer be selling its products in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”. “Although Ben & Jerry’s will no longer be sold in the OPT, we will stay in Israel through a different arrangement,” the company announced on its website on Monday. In fact, the Ben & Jerry Board wanted to boycott Israel entirely but was stopped from doing so by Unilever. Avi Zinger, CEO of Ben & Jerry’s...

Over the coming months this could end up being major popcorn and Pepsi time. It may be best to stay away from the rival Woka Cola. Many things could be played out on stages all over the United States, not limited to 1-4 below, especially if they are played out within court rooms: 1.) U.S. federal law does not allow business boycotts of foreign countries. Counter-argument from Ben & Jerry's/Unilever: we aren't boycotting Israel but rather this is occurring in "Israeli-occupied" territories. U.S.: those areas are a part a Israel. Counter: how so per U.S. policy of a two-state solution,...

Less than 24 hours after receiving the news that Ben & Jerry's had announced they would not allow their ice cream to be sold in Judea & Samaria, what they called "occupied Palestinian territory,” there has been a grassroots backlash against this company in Jewish neighborhoods around the world.. Both the Israeli TV and social media channels are reporting that Israelis are boycotting B&J's ice cream, and had to be told by the government that in Israel,one should continue purchasing it to try to save the local manufacturing plant which had been told its contract would not be renewed. The...

Two months after the journalist Abby Martin agreed to give the main address at Georgia Southern University's 2020 International Critical Media Literacy Conference, she was disinvited because she refused to sign a state-mandated declaration that she was not "engaged in" a "boycott of Israel" and would refrain from doing so for the duration of her contract with the university. For Martin, a harsh critic of Israel who supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, that pledge was untrue and unacceptable. It was also unconstitutional, according to a federal judge who last week allowed Martin's lawsuit against university officials to proceed....

Groups alleging human-rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a statement Monday calling for the boycott, eschewing lesser measures that had been floated like "diplomatic boycotts" and further negotiations with the IOC or China. "The time for talking with the IOC is over," Lhadon Tethong of the Tibet Action Institute said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press....

The thing about boycotts is that they don’t work too well in a vacuum. If you start a parade and no one gets in line behind you, you aren’t a leader; you’re just a fool walking down the middle of the street twirling a baton. The failed boycott-Georgia movement illustrates the limits of the Democratic Party’s tactic of attaching hysterical overreaction and claims of racism to virtually any Republican idea, even a routine package of voting reforms. The Democrats turned the volume up to eleven on the Georgia elections bill signed into law March 25, labeling it the second coming...

What actions should an individual conservative take to push back against today’s onslaught of cancel culture, loss of freedom, and the Left’s destruction of America? What if you work full-time, protests aren’t your cup of tea, you don’t plan to run for political office, and you don’t have plans to become a conservative journalist anytime soon?Action and defiance and has a storied history in America: Patrick Henry, Frederick Douglas, Susan B Anthony, Rosa Parks, and MLK. But what if you are not destined for the pages of the history books? You can still make your voice heard and your actions...

NBA officials and players were quick to react as former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd in the United States. The jury deliberated for 10 hours before arriving at a unanimous verdict, finding Chauvin guilty on all three counts: second degree unintentional murder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter. The videotaped final moments off Floyd’s life last May sparked protests around the globe, and particularly in the NBA as players protested against racial injustice and police brutality. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts released a joint statement...

A major coalition of Black faith leaders in Georgia, representing more than 1,000 churches in the state, will call on Tuesday for a boycott of Home Depot, arguing that the company has abdicated its responsibility as a good corporate citizen by not pushing back on the state’s new voting law. The call for a boycott, led by Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who oversees all 534 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia, represents one of the first major steps to put significant economic pressure on businesses to be more vocal in opposing Republican efforts in Georgia and around the country to...

Coca-Cola, whose CEO denounced the Georgia voting bill, is now striking a conciliatory tone after coming under pressure from conservatives. The soda giant, which is based in Atlanta, was absent from a list of more than 500 corporations and individuals that signed a statement condemning any election legislation that would “restrict” voters from having “an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot.” The missive was placed as a two-page Wednesday ad in the New York Times and Washington Post, with the effort being organized by the Black Economic Alliance. Coca-Cola said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on...

Fair Fight, the leftist voter organization founded by Stacy Abrams’, is scrambling to stop film studios and TV production firms from leaving Georgia in protest over the state’s new election integrity law, pleading with Hollywood to instead “stay and fight.

Get Ready to Rumble With Big Business Woke corporations aren’t our friends and we should stop acting like they are. If they want to play games with our rights, we should beat them like rented mules when it comes to their bottom line.Serious question: Who died and made these woke corporations ruler of all, the veritable masters of the universe? Who made them the arbiters of right and wrong? Since when do they get to decide what is an acceptable form of free speech or what election laws should or should not get passed in this country? If you’re not...

When Major League Baseball decided to relocate the All-Star Game and Draft from Atlanta due to alleged “restrictions to the ballot box," our country recoiled and our politicians -- from the President on down to local activists -- backpedaled. The fallout from the misinformation campaign means Georgians and small businesses will strike out. A Rasmussen poll showed a plurality of African American respondents disagreed with MLB’s decision and a majority agreed it was a bad idea to combine sports and politics. The great American pastime can do without a partisan power struggle.For years, Stacey Abrams and her Democrat allies have...

Red states must coordinate their efforts as the left does to be more formidable. In particular, states like Texas and Florida, with their large populations and economic clout and with supportive governors — notably, Ron DeSantis of Florida — can take the lead, but any state so inclined can move aggressively. Finally, Republican officials at all levels, state and federal, should demand that woke corporate hypocrites boycott the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

Left-wingers have always had a knack for activism. In the '60s and '70s, they were the ones flooding the streets, protesting civil rights violations and the Vietnam War. Now, they're conjuring Twitter mobs out of thin air, organizing boycotts galore, and hectoring politicians, celebrities, corporate CEOs, and even their family members, friends, and neighbors, in response to any and all perceived violations of wokeness. Leftists seem always to be poised on a hair-trigger, ready to pounce on their enemies, and when they do...God help whomever bears the brunt of their searing wrath. Often, we hear the argument on the right:...

Britain's Prince Philip Dies at 99 Home | America Tags: Voting Rights | fay vincent | mlb | baseball | manfred | all star Ex-MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent Rips Decision to Move All-Star Game Ex-MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent Rips Decision to Move All-Star Game Then-MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent stands on the field before a circa 1990 game between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) By Jeffrey Rodack | Tuesday, 06 April 2021 02:50 PM Comment|Print| A A Former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent says current MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made "a...

In the wake of Major League Baseball relocating the All-Star game, almost everyone who was calling for such a move has been backtracking—including Joe Biden, and even Stacey Abrams, who was a major voice against the recently passed election law that Democrats have been making several false claims about.But now, sources say that Stacey Abrams was the one who convinced MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to move the All-Star game out of Georgia.SCOOP: @MLB sources say owners were blindsided at least by the timing of @RobManfred's decision to pull the All-Star game from Atlanta. Also said his decision came after speaking...

Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey has outdone perhaps all of his peers in “woke” corporate America by delivering an unctuous and high-profile denunciation of Georgia’s new voter integrity law. It wasn’t enough simply to attack Georgia for its attempt to restore a modicum of election integrity — Quincy overtly lent Coke’s support to Democrats for an additional legislative power-grab. We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation. Throughout Georgia’s legislative session we provided feedback to members of both legislative chambers and political parties, opposing measures in the bills...