![]() ![]() “Unilever cut off the longstanding licensee after it refused to halt sales in the disputed territories, which reportedly would violate Israeli law. On JBen and Jerry’s ice cream brand, which is owned and operated by a British multinational company called Unilever, announced that it would end its license agreement with an Israeli-based manufacturer to ensure that its products “will no longer be sold” in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” The decision sparked an outcry and, thus far, has proven to be quite costly to Unilever, which has subsequently seen its stocks take a nosedive.Īs the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington D.C.-based think tank, noted in a JNewsweek op-ed: But her latest column on Israel is replete with errors and omissions. Take, for example, a Jcolumn by Trudy Rubin, entitled “Ben and Jerry’s boycott is not antisemitic, nor a rejection of Israel.” Rubin is the Inquirer’s World View columnist and her commentary on international affairs has been a longtime staple at the newspaper. The Inquirer, which has an estimated 193,000 daily subscribers, has frequently provided commentary and analysis that misleads about the Jewish state. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” But for readers of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the truth about Israel is often hard to find. “The truth,” Winston Churchill famously intoned, “is incontrovertible.
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