…for Palestine. Hey, we can’t hear you!
The international ice cream brand with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales typically posts to its Twitter, Instagram or Facebook pages daily, including about the many progressive social causes that the company supports. But Ben & Jerry’s fell silent on May 18 amid the deadly exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that also played out intensely on social media.
The company did not respond to a request for an explanation by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Those who waged a social media campaign against Ben & Jerry’s because of its affiliated factory in Israel and the availability of its products in Israeli settlements are taking credit for the silence.
When you’re in a hole stop digging.
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The free flying lessons are a major draw.
Consider them “science experiments” proving Newton’s Law of Gravity.
“The silence is atypical for a company famously founded by two Jewish hippies in Vermont.”
Who would have been just as prosperous in Israel had they made aliyah instead.
But that would have required the humility to leave healing the world to the One Who made it.
Israel will still be here when America, Canada and all other haters cease to exist. Islam will be gone, communists will be gone, liberals will be gone. Why does Israel still exist in spite of thousands of years of persecution of the smallest number of a specific people on the planet? Give me an answer that makes sense, not BS.
Whatever. Ben & Jerry’s sold out to global behemoth and multinat Unilever years ago. Unilever’s biggest shareholder is Blackrock whose CEO is some Irish guy named Laurence Fink. I always connect the dots…you should too. I doubt most Palestinian apologists go a day without using at least one Unilever product.
Unilever doesn’t give a damn for anyone, especially SJW types. I’m sure they have a good laugh in the board room knowing idiot hippies wash their hair again after rinsing only because the instructions on the Unilever “Dove” shampoo bottle says they should… so they’ll let them have their hissy fit.
Unilever knows as well that if you’re going to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream they’ll most likely see an uptick in Breyer’s ice-cream sales… which they own as well.
What a world.
Indeed. Corporate masters. Politics can’t break them, but there must be a way?
This is the first trendy cause Ben and Jerry have been on the wrong side of. Maybe they can whip up a new gay flavor ice cream to satiate their critics., although that may not sit well with people of the Palestinian persuasion.
I’ll bet their new flavor is NUT-en-Nyat-Who
“…amid the deadly exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza…” Would that be the deadly exchange precipitated by Hamas launching over four thousand rockets at Israel and Israel defending itself?