Ben & Jerry's Israel CEO calls for retaliation against ice cream maker
Following Ben & Jerry’s decision to end the sale of ice cream in the West Bank last year, the soon-to-be delicensed CEO of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, Avi Zinger, has asked Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to retaliate against the frozen-dessert maker’s parent company, Unilever Global.
In a letter, Zinger requested that the prime minister implement Israel’s Boycott Law against Unilever, claiming that they are promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) with one company, while supplying the IDF, the government and the State of Israel with goods worth millions of shekels with its other companies
When Ben & Jerry’s first announced its end of sales in the West Bank, Bennett told the global CEO of Unilever: “For Israel, this is an act that has serious legal... consequences, and [the state] will act vigorously against any act of boycott directed against its citizens.”
Over the past six months, through cooperation with 33 US states that have enacted laws against the boycott of Israel, the State Department and Jewish communities have been able to get states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas and Arizona, to enforce boycott laws against Unilever, which have led to a pulling of investments, holdings and pension funds worth about $1 billion so far.
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