Pressure is intensifying on the British company Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream brand, because of its announcement in July not to allow products to be sold in Judea and Samaria, and parts of Yerushalayim.
Ben & Jerry’s Israel CEO Avi Zinger told the Israeli business daily Globes that Unilever thought the uproar would blow over after a few weeks.
He has been pushing for the Israeli government to pressure the U.S. administration to act against Unilever for violating laws pertaining to BDS and anti-BDS legislation.
According to the report, the moves against Unilever began with removing the investment in Unilever by seven U.S. states that have massive pension fund investments. New York had pension fund holdings of $100 million in the company’s shares; another 33 states are considering taking similar measures.
Attorney generals from 12 states wrote to Unilever CEO Alan Jope last week expressing their concern over the boycott.
Earlier this year, several U.S. Ben & Jerry’s franchisees sent a letter to the company calling on them to rescind their July 19 decision to stop doing business in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
Last month, four lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Unilever should amend its regulatory filings to reflect the potential risks shareholders face over the ice-cream maker’s decision to boycott Israeli settlements. JNS.ORG
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so now they hate the jews even more. stopping the boycott–and it should be stopped–will not decrease the
antisemitism.
Chalav akum is assur. It’s mitamteim the lev.
Why the ignorance? It’s hardly chalav akum. You’d be pretty hard pressed to actually come across chalav akum these days. Milk today is obtained from huge factories called dairy farms with only cows, and they are government controlled. Hence all the milk is from cows. The kashrus issues are based on the cows potentially being treifos, halchically forbidden surgeries and risk of abdominal ruptures from the magnets and metals the cows ingest in their processed feed. I know, I lived on a kosher dairy farm for a number of years and it was quite the eye opener.