{"id":596767,"date":"2021-07-19T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596767"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:51:06","slug":"leftist-ben-jerrys-targets-israel-we-wont-sell-ice-cream-in-judea-and-samaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-ben-jerrys-targets-israel-we-wont-sell-ice-cream-in-judea-and-samaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Targets Israel: We Won\u2019t Sell Ice Cream In Judea And Samaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fleftist-ben-jerrys-targets-israel-we-wont-sell-ice-cream-in-judea-and-samaria%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=596767&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1873.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream, named for its two leftist founders and owned by Unilever since 2000, announced on Monday that they would no longer sell ice cream in the two ancient Biblical parts of Israel, Judea, and Samaria, writing that it was \u201cinconsistent with our values for Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/about-us\/media-center\/palestine-statement?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=demand&amp;utm_term=photo&amp;utm_content=palestine-statement\">read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). We also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region. We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s will no longer be sold in the OPT, we will stay in Israel through a different arrangement. We will share an update on this as soon as we\u2019re ready.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s has issued provocative public statements for years; in April, in the wake of the shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/must-be-dismantled-ben-jerrys-attacks-americas-police-system\/\">tweeted<\/a> that America\u2019s police system \u201ccan\u2019t be reformed\u201d and \u201cmust be dismantled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s wrote, \u201cThe murder of #DaunteWright is rooted in white supremacy and results from the international criminalization of Black and Brown communities. This system can\u2019t be reformed. It must be dismantled and a real system of public safety rebuilt from the ground up. #DefundThePolice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, hopping mad at Australia for not accepting same-sex marriage as the law of the land, Ben and Jerry\u2019s revenged itself on the Aussies by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/ben-jerrys-marriage-equality-australia\/\">banning customers<\/a> from having two scoops of the same flavor; 26 stores in Australia were targeted. The statement from Ben and Jerry\u2019s read:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Imagine heading down to your local Scoop Shop to order your favorite two scoops of Cookie Dough in a waffle cone. But you find out you are not allowed \u2013 Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s has banned two scoops of the same flavor. You\u2019d be furious! But this doesn\u2019t even begin to compare to how furious you would be if you were told you were not allowed to marry the person you love. So we are banning two scoops of the same flavor and encouraging our fans to contact their MPs to tell them that the time has come \u2013 make same sex marriage legal! Love comes in all flavours!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t all; in case you didn\u2019t get the message, post boxes emblazoned with rainbows were scheduled to be featured in each Australian store because Ben and Jerry\u2019s wanted customers to write a postcard to their MP urging them to support same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Ben and Jerry\u2019s promised: \u201cWe will make sure that the postcards are delivered before the final parliamentary session on June 13th, before the budget is announced \u2013We see this as the next opportunity for to achieve marriage equality, so we need to act NOW! At Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s we love love, and we think most Australians do too. More Australians than ever before believe everyone should have the right to love who they love \u2013 and marry them too, if that\u2019s what makes you happy. Let\u2019s make it happen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of the ice cream chain, were ardent leftists, having initially supported Occupy Wall Street with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2011\/oct\/10\/occupy-wall-street-ben-jerrys\">statements<\/a> like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do. We have provided support to citizens\u2019 efforts to rein in corporate money in politics, we pay a livable wage to our employees, we directly support family farms and we are working to source fairly traded ingredients for all our products. But we realize that Occupy Wall Street is calling for systemic change. We support this call to action and are honored to join you in this call to take back our nation and democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s ice cream, named for its two leftist founders and owned by Unilever since 2000, announced on Monday that they would no longer sell ice cream in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596767","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\/596767","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}