After Ben & Jerry’s franchisees sent a letter to the board requesting that it reconsider its boycott on Israel, the ice cream company brought in an extreme anti-Israel activist to defend its decision, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
As Ben & Jerry’s franchisees grapple with the fallout of the boycott, 30 store owners sent a letter to Ben & Jerry’s leadership saying that the decision to end sales in Judea and Samaria “not only distorts the situation on the ground—it has imposed, and will to continue to impose, substantial financial costs on all of us.”
In response, Ben & Jerry’s last week brought in anti-Israel author Peter Beinart, who has called for the abolition of Israel, to talk to store owners about Israel’s “illegal occupation.”
Speaking on a conference call, Beinart claimed that Israeli soldiers are sent into Palestinian villages to abduct minors and that Israel illegally occupies territory “it seized from Jordan in an offensive war in 1967.”
Beinart told the Free Beacon that he was invited to speak because he has publicly encouraged boycotts of Israel’s “occupied territories.”
“I wrote a NYT op-ed calling for settlement boycott in 2012. I’ve espoused this view for a long time,” said Beinart.
In July 2020, Beinart wrote another NYT editorial stating: “I no longer believe in a Jewish state.”
Beinart recently revealed in his newsletter that he has “spoken privately to [Ben & Jerry’s] executives and encouraged their efforts” on the boycott campaign, adding that “no one has produced any independent evidence that the company is hostile to Jews.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Wow! If one didn’t think of the boycott till now, this has got to be the hot fudge atop the cone! Dump them now!
Btw, according to Wikipedia unfortunately this is another case of self-hated Jew. As of 2012, Beinart lives in New York City. He keeps kosher, regularly attends an Orthodox synagogue, and sends his children to a Jewish school.
This nutjob is officially orthodox , keeps kosher and goes to shul. What a loser. The worst kind 9f anti semite. Shame on him.
And still KOF-K refuses to give up the Ben & Jerry’s account on the patently false claim that they don’t want to lose their (patently nonexistent) ability to influence Ben and Jerry’s Israel policy. For shame.
It needs to be known that the settlements are not stolen land and Israel is not an occupier; it’s the legal owner. What Israel seized from Jordan was land that Jordan illegally took from Israel. The boycott is based on lies.
Israel should sue Beinart for slander. Let this lowly anti-Semite try and back his claim with indisputable proof that “Israeli soldiers are sent into Palestinian villages to abduct minors”. They should spend a lot of money and effort publicizing the case so that the world hears the truth.
He happens to be right that the Zionists’ war in 1967 was, in fact, an offensive war, not defensive as Zionist propaganda would have you believe.
Long overdue for a lightning bolt to come out from heaven and strike them.
To Hakatan: Obviously, you were not alive in 1967.
Ben and Jerry is going to bankruptcy, and taking this lawyer with them. As all other Sonai Yisroel .
Nebuch: Nebuch on you!
I keep kosher go to shul went to yeshiva, kollel, am in chinuch. I teach my children that there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONNECTION between the state of israel and Hashem & his Torah.
You want to talk politics or legality- fine.
Keep the Aibershter out of this.
Pete Beinart ימח שמו וזכרונו
interesting how the Jewish former owners support this antisemitism. that is the lefty liberal world view….