To Hell With Ben & Jerry's

To hell with Ben & Jerry's for announcing with much fanfare that they will no longer do business in East Jerusalem and the West Bank because it is "inconsistent with our values."

Those values would appear to be to single the world's only Jewish country because Ben & Jerry's is perfectly happy to do business in Poland despite its "LGBT Free Zones" and tickled pink to be in Thailand despite its authoritarian regime, I would also add neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas run Gaza are paragons of virtue. 

I would boycott Ben & Jerry's, but I don't buy their products in the first place as I seldom eat ice cream and on the rare occasions I do it is non-dairy. Although a boycott of Ben & Jerry's parent company Unilever might put pressure on those foolish fellows in Vermont.

Now Ben & Jerry's has indicated they will continue to do business in Israel, but perhaps Israel could send a message to Ben & Jerry's that it is not welcome to operate for legitimizing anti-Semitism.

While shaming Ben & Jerry's is good, the only way for Ben & Jerry's to see the error of their ways is to hurt their bottom line.