Leftist Group Pushes Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream To End All Israel Business
Movement For Black Lives, a left-wing group similar to Black Lives Matter, is pushing Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to end all Israel-based business due to what they claim is apartheid. The group has been known to push for expensive taxpayer-funded reparations.
Their calls for continued divestment come after Ben & Jerry’s announced that they will stop selling ice cream at “illegal Israeli Jewish-only settlements on stolen Palestinian land.”
Justice Tastes Better Than Complicity: Ben & Jerry’s must now end all business with apartheid Israel.
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— Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) July 22, 2021
Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever, however, announced that they will do business in Israel in another capacity, angering leftist groups.
Two core leftist demands have emerged after Unilever’s announcement.
First, they deemed the ice cream ban a “partial victory,” vowing to continue divestment and sanctions in support of so-called Palestine. “This is how we weaken oppressive power structures, how we create change and shift narratives, and why we keep pushing.”
Second, they want Ben & Jerry’s to end all business with “apartheid Israel.”
Their statement reads, “The unwavering fight for justice isn’t over. The boycott continues until Ben & Jerry’s ends all business with apartheid Israel. The Israeli state can’t be separated from its apartheid and military occupation. Ben & Jerry’s must now fully commit to standing on the right side of history by completely ending its complicity in Israel’s separate-and-unequal apartheid regime.”
“For Ben & Jerry’s to fully commit to justice, there must be no scoops left behind under apartheid,” said Ahmad Abuznaid, the executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. “Until there are none, we are not done.”
“The Movement for Black Lives supports and defends the unobstructed freedom and self-determination of the Palestinian people,” said Montague Simmons, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Movement for Black Lives. “Black and Palestinian organizers have long worked hand-in-hand to eradicate repressive regimes and policies in both Palestine and the United States. Ben and Jerry’s withdrawing sales on Occupied Palestinian Territory is a step in that direction, yet insufficient. We believe it is important to acknowledge that the small attempts at fixes don’t override the bigger context of apartheid, settler colonialism and military occupation. We continue to demand an end to human rights abuses, settler colonialism and U.S. investments in the occupation of Palestine and the apartheid state.”
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