Ben & Jerry’s Brash Move: Cutting Off Sales to Israel
Morton Williams Supermarket announced it will no longer feature Ben and Jerry’s ice cream (“Ben & Jerry’s Mideast move sparks cold war,” July 20).
This commendable decision was made after this ice-cream company decided to boycott Israeli towns and homes in Judea, Samaria and anywhere else the anti-Semitic BDS movement designates as “occupied territories.”
Ben & Jerry’s misguided decision gives a victory to anti-Semites masquerading as humanrights activists whose true goal is Israel’s destruction.
Israel has legitimate historical and legal claims to the areas Ben and Jerry’s is boycotting,
As long as Ben & Jerry’s maintains this boycott, I will maintain my boycott of its products. Daniel Trigoboff
Wiliamsville
Too bad Ben & Jerry’s has been misled by false narratives.
Jordan occupied those territories in 1948. It was Israel that liberated them
in 1967 in a war of selfdefense.
Kudos to Avi Kaner for his courage in standing up to Ben & Jerry’s and the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) movement. The loudest tweets are not always the truthful ones.
Shame on Ben & Jerry’s for not knowing its history and bowing to loud, divisive liars.
Alison Wachstein
Weston, Conn.
Ben & Jerry’s is Vermont-based, is it not? Well, here’s an interesting
tidbit: There were indigenous Native American tribes that were forced to flee the area known today as Vermont back in the 1600s.
Many of the Abenaki, Mohicans, Pennacook, and Pocomtuc had to involuntarily relocate north to Canadian territories. They were forced out by the new arrivals to the North American continent.
So let’s review: Who is living and doing business in occupied territory? How hypocritical and anti-Semitic. It’s shameful and disgusting pandering.
George Weiss
Cedarhurst
Without touching upon the nuts and bolts of the Mideast situation, let me just say: Any enterprise that mixes business with politics (as Ben & Jerry’s has done for many years) deserves the backlash from alienated customers that will ensue.
Ron Wasserman
Freehold, NJ