— HatInProSe (@Popehat) July 21, 2021Not selling ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories is anti-semitic:
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said he spoke with Alan Jope, chief executive of Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever, and raised concern about what he called a “clearly anti-Israel step.” He said the move would have “serious consequences, legal and otherwise,” and Israel “will act aggressively against all boycott actions directed against its citizens.”
And the proper response to this business decision is for the several states of the Union to sue Ben & Jerry's and Unilever for....making a business decision Israel doesn't like:
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, Gilad Erdan, sent letters to 35 governors whose states have laws against boycotting Israel asking that they consider speaking out against Ben & Jerry’s decision “and taking any other relevant steps, including in relation to your state laws and the commercial dealings between Ben & Jerry’s and your state.”
Erdan said Israel views the company’s decision as “the de-facto adoption of anti-Semitic practices and advancement of the de-legitimization of the Jewish state and the dehumanization of the Jewish people.”
“As Arab nations cancel their decades-long boycott of the Jewish state and sign peace agreements with Israel, and cultural and economic cooperation in our region is growing, American companies with radical ideological agendas cannot be allowed to go against the policy of the United States and act against normalization and peace,” Erdan wrote. “Moreover, the past has proven that the citizens of Israel are never the only ones who suffer from such boycotts as these significantly harm Palestinians as well.”
In case you thought me too harsh, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. says the decision not to sell ice cream is anti-Semitic. Because: reasons. And the First Amendment is only for people who love Israel unconditionally; or something.
I'm still a bit confused. Ben & Jerry's won't sell its ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories. And this hurts Israel directly because....Israeli citizens in those territories have to drive to Jerusalem to get their Cherry Garcia fix? I gotta agree the "boycott" (it isn't really that, is it?) strikes me as misguided in the same sense a guided missile loses guidance and goes off course. This seems to hurt Palestinians more than Israelis, but that's B & J's business, not mine. But this action is anti-Semitic? And de-legitimizes the Jewish state, and dehumanizes the Jewish people?
Seriously? Because of ice cream?
I would say Ben & Jerry's kind of stepped into this one.
But I also think a lot of people just don't care. Lankford is a U.S. Senator. He has zero authority in the state of Oklahoma on this. I'm also thinking boycotting Ben & Jerry's in state operated facilities wouldn't be noticed by anybody in Oklahoma, whereas banning the sale of Ben & Jerry's in Oklahoma would be political suicide. Aside from the legal problem of the state of Oklahoma interfering with interstate commerce.We should immediately block the sale of all #Benandjerrys in the state and in any state-operated facility to align with our law.
— Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) July 21, 2021
From literally yesterday:https://t.co/X58fHFxON5
— Allen Degenerate (@allenislegit) July 21, 2021
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