It turns out that Ben & Jerry's will be sold in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank after all.
After a nearly year long saga, Ben & Jerry's parent company Unilever has agreed to sell its holdings in Israel and the West Bank to Avi Zinger, the man who has long distributed Ben and Jerry's in Israel. Ben and Jerry's abruptly ceased doing business with last summer because it was "inconsistent with their values." Evidently doing business in authoritarian states like Hungary and Thailand is just fine and dandy.
Although Zinger can only use the Ben and Jerry's name in Hebrew and Arabic, Ben and Jerry's voiced its opposition to the move reiterating that selling in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is inconsistent with their values. Keep in mind that Ben and Jerry's originally wanted to boycott all of Israel and Unilever nixed that. Why they couldn't have nixed the boycott in its entirety is beyond me.
Notwithstanding these developments, my position towards Ben and Jerry's hasn't changed one iota. To hell with them and any company which singles out Israel for derision while giving a pass to other countries and flat ignoring the abuses of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Regardless of the fact that Ben and Jerry's was founded by Jews, theirs is an anti-Semitic act.
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