{"id":603166,"date":"2021-07-26T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=603166"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:50:47","slug":"two-new-york-towns-to-boycott-ben-jerrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-new-york-towns-to-boycott-ben-jerrys\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New York Towns To Boycott Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftwo-new-york-towns-to-boycott-ben-jerrys%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=603166&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 readability=\"30.130434782609\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Anti-BDS legislation targets companies that boycott Israel, town officials say<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1176841345_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1176841345_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1176841345_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1176841345_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBen &amp; Jerry\u2019s CEO Matthew McCarthy \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 July 26, 2021 5:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"66.983766233766\">\n<p>Local New York officials say their towns will boycott Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s after the ice cream company announced it would end sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Town officials from Hempstead and North Hempstead are urging the removal Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s products from store shelves and looking to apply anti-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) legislation the towns passed in 2017. Hempstead town supervisor Don Clavin (R.) said the company will be held &#8220;accountable&#8221; and can expect to see its products &#8220;in the garbage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re gone. Don&#8217;t go buy Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s,&#8221; Clavin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/nassau\/ben-and-jerry-s-hempstead-israel-1.50312662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;Buy ice cream that is a friend of Israel\u2014H\u00e4agen Dazs it is. Every contract\u2019s going to be reviewed, and we\u2019re going to hold them accountable for their support of this anti-Israeli action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>North Hempstead town supervisor Judi Bosworth (D.) <a href=\"https:\/\/theislandnow.com\/featured\/n-hempstead-ban-on-ben-jerrys-sparks-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> her town will apply a measure prohibiting them from working with companies that support the BDS movement. Nassau County executive Laura Curran (D.) also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2021\/07\/26\/hempstead-puts-freeze-on-ben-jerrys-unilever\/\">slammed<\/a> the ice cream company, saying she was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; by its alignment with anti-Israel activists.<\/p>\n<p>The local pushback against Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s comes as the company stumbles to find its footing after anti-Israel comments in July. State lawmakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/texas-weighs-divestment-from-ben-jerrys-parent-company-over-israel-boycott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering<\/a> divesting from Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s parent company. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/meet-ben-jerrys-board-chair-anti-israel-activist-has-published-defenses-of-hezbollah-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> the ice cream company\u2019s board chairwoman has a history of drafting op-eds defending Hezbollah and supporting U.S. funding to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>North Hempstead and Hempstead are home to vulnerable Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Reps. Kathleen Rice (D., N.Y.), Tom Suozzi (D., N.Y.), and House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.) did not return requests for comments regarding their support for the bipartisan stance against Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Anti-BDS legislation targets companies that boycott Israel, town officials say  Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s CEO Matthew McCarthy \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 July &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-603166","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\/603166","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603166\/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=603166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}