{"id":1515525,"date":"2022-06-14T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515525"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:35:15","slug":"new-ben-jerrys-employees-forced-to-watch-anti-israel-videos-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-ben-jerrys-employees-forced-to-watch-anti-israel-videos-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Employees Forced To Watch Anti-Israel Videos: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-ben-jerrys-employees-forced-to-watch-anti-israel-videos-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s, which has demonstrated its hostility to the state of Israel in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ron-desantis-pushes-for-action-against-ben-jerrys-over-israel-boycott\">past<\/a>, has reportedly required new employees to watch video lectures featuring Palestinian activists lying about the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe videos are part of what the ice cream company dubbed \u201cScooper Series: Social Mission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/06\/ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-israel-palestinian-territories-human-rights-watch\/\">Jewish Insider<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the recent escalation that took place in May of 2021, it started over discriminatory efforts to force Palestinians out of their homes in occupied East Jerusalem as part of this larger policy,\u201d Omar Shakir, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/after-years-long-legal-battle-israel-expels-human-rights-watch-local-director\/\">expelled from Israel<\/a> in 2019, blusters.<\/p>\n<p>Shakir was referring to Sheik Jarrah \u2014 known to Jews as the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood \u2014 which lies in Jerusalem just north of the Old City. The tomb and its compound were purchased in 1876 and settled in 1891 as a Jewish neighborhood.\u00a0\u201cIn 1936, the neighborhood was attacked by Arab rioters and later conquered by the Arab Legion in 1948, before being annexed to the kingdom of Jordan in 1950,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/op-ed-contributors\/we-all-live-in-shimon-hatzaddik\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a>\u00a0noted. \u201cThe Jordanian conquerors allowed Arab families to occupy abandoned Jewish homes, in violation of the rights of the property owners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Israel retook Jerusalem in 1967, the Jewish committee that had purchased the land began to resettle the area with Jews by showing deeds for the properties before Israeli courts.<\/p>\n<p>When Shakir was expelled, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/after-years-long-legal-battle-israel-expels-human-rights-watch-local-director\/\">explained,<\/a> \u201cOmar Shakir, as the District and Supreme Courts have already determined, is an active BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] propagator [sic] who zealously promotes boycotts against Israel. Just days before the final ruling in his case, he again expressed open support for the boycott and isolation of the entire State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shakir continued in the video for Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s employees, \u201cThe policy also extends to the Gaza Strip, Although the Israeli government withdrew its settler population and ground forces in 2005, the Israeli government continues to exercise control over Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadly rockets and balloons sent by Hamas from Gaza in recent years would tend to belie the claim that Israel controls Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShakir,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/after-years-long-legal-battle-israel-expels-human-rights-watch-local-director\/\">who was expelled<\/a>\u00a0from Israel in 2019, had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/former-ben-and-jerrys-employee-says-anti-israel-activist-spoke-to-board-ahead-of-boycott-decision\/\">reportedly counseled<\/a>\u00a0the Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s board last year, ahead of the ice cream company\u2019s decision to stop selling its products in what it referred to as \u2018Occupied Palestinian Territory,\u2019\u201d Jewish Insider noted.<\/p>\n<p>Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s has referred to the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria as \u201cOccupied Palestinian Territory,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/about-us\/media-center\/opt-statement\">writing<\/a>, \u201cWe believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s, which has demonstrated its hostility to the state of Israel in the past, has reportedly required new employees to watch video lectures featuring Palestinian activists lying about the Jewish state. \u201cThe videos are part of what the ice cream company dubbed \u201cScooper Series: Social Mission,\u201d Jewish Insider reported. \u201cIf you look at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1515598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}