“We are aware of the Unilever announcement,” Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream founders tweeted on Wednesday. “While our (non-Jewish) parent company has taken this decision, we, (as smarmy self-hating Jews) do not agree with it.”
NY Post Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream founders blasted parent company Unilever for selling the Vermont-based firm’s operations in Israel to a local licensee — effectively circumventing a boycott of Jewish settlements in Judea & Samaria (what Jordan renamed the West Bank).
“We continue to believe it is inconsistent with Ben & Jerry’s values for our ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, (Jewish-occupied territory in the Jewish state)” Ben & Jerry’s tweeted on Wednesday.
The official Twitter account of the ice cream maker founded by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield posted a short tweet thread on Wednesday — hours after Unilever announced its agreement to sell Ben & Jerry’s to Avi Zinger of American Quality Products. Zinger announced on Wednesday that he will resume sales of the Ben & Jerry’s brand in both Hebrew and Arabic throughout Israel proper as well as the West Bank Judea & Samaria territories Israel recaptured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Ben & Jerry’s continued: “Unilever’s arrangement means Ben & Jerry’s in Israel will be owned and operated by AQP. Our company will no longer profit from Ben & Jerry’s in Israel.”
The Unilever announcement brings to an end the saga that began last year when Ben & Jerry’s said that it would no longer offer its products to consumers in Israeli settlements built on occupied Israeli land. Unilever, the Dutch-British conglomerate whose properties include big-name brands such as Hellmann’s, Dove, Lipton, and Breyers, said at the time that it had no legal right to force Ben & Jerry’s to reverse course.
When Unilever acquired Ben & Jerry’s more than 20 years ago in a deal valued at $326 million, the Vermont-based ice cream maker insisted that its board would have autonomy on matters related to social and political issues.
But Unilever maintained the power to sell parts of the business as it deemed fit. The boycott by Ben & Jerry’s created a public relations headache for Unilever as pro-Israel politicians in the US announced economic retaliatory measures.
The states of New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Texas have divested a combined $1 billion in pension fund investments from Unilever, concluding Ben & Jerry’s action violated their anti-boycott laws.
The Israeli government hailed the decision by Unilever to sell the brand to Zinger as a “victory over anti-Semites” on Wednesday.
xenonman says
It’s about time that these self-hating Jew, millionaire hippies go bankrupt!
BareNakedIslam says
I heard B&J are now suing Unilever.
Fritz the Cat says
What’s up with Israel-hating Jews?
I’ll bet Harvey Weinstein was one. Woody Allen? Matt Lauer? Charlie Rose? Jeffrey Epstein? Scott Weiner? Rob Reiner? Jeff Zucker?
I could go on for a week.
BareNakedIslam says
That’s because the only religion they actually worship is Far Leftism.
SB666 says
I usually remove tubs of B&Js from a shop’s freezer and leave them somewhere on a shelf to thaw out after I’ve walked out.
BareNakedIslam says
LOL.
xenonman says
I love it!! Keep up the good work!
Linda Rivera says
Rabid God haters, Ben and Jerry, are ENRAGED that the HOLY ONE of Israel, our Precious, Wonderful, Awesome Creator fulfilled His Bible promise that He would make Israel’s desert bloom and bring back His People, the Jews back to Israel, the Holy Land that Almighty God gave to Jews as an everlasting possession thousands of years before the MURDER BLOOD CONQUEST Cult of Islam was invented.
To God be the Glory forever and ever!
Linda Rivera says
Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol (1704-1782)
“The preservation of the Jews is really one of the most single and illustrious acts of divine Providence…
and what but a supernatural power could have preserved them in such a manner as none other nation upon earth hath been preserved. Nor is the providence of God less remarkable in the destruction of their enemies, than in their preservation…
We see that the great empires, which in their turn subdued and oppressed the people of God, are all come to ruin…
And if such hath been the fatal end of the enemies and oppressors of the Jews, let it serve as a warning to all those, who at any time or upon any occasion are for raising a clamor and persecution against them.”
Pray Hard says
Fuck Ben and Jerry. I’ll tell them to their faces.