Tag: BDS Movement
Texas adds Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever to list of companies boycotting Israel
The ice-cream company Ben & Jerry’s and its British parent company Unilever have officially been added to the list of companies in Texas that boycott Israel, announced Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Thursday.
Under Chapter 808, Texas law...
The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again
Next week, the United Nations is set to reinforce infamy. In the wings of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, it is to hold a 20th anniversary summit of its so-called World...
New Jersey poised to divest from Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream boycott
New Jersey is poised to become the latest state to divest from the British Unilever company over Ben & Jerry’s decision this summer to boycott selling its products in the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem.
In...
BDS resolution withdrawn at Burlington city council meeting after community rallies against it
After more than two hours of public comments, the Burlington City Council meeting in Vermont ended on Monday night with a vote to withdraw a resolution that would have made it the first city in the...
Arizona first state to divest from Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream boycott
Arizona moved to divest from Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, over the ice-cream maker’s decision to stop selling its products in the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem, becoming the first state to...
BDS-proof: Insider tips for helping students on campus feel secure and empowered
Just because most colleges and universities have been on at least a partial pandemic shut down this past year doesn’t mean that BDS forces have lost any of their vitriol.
Or that they’ve given up...
Ex-Ben & Jerry’s employee says company spoke to anti-Israel activist pre-boycott
A former employee of Ben & Jerry’s said the company’s board consulted with anti-Israel activist and Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Israel-Palestine director Omar Shakir before the ice-cream maker announced its decision last month to boycott the...
Jewish advocates warn that pro-Israel college students to face aggression on campus
A number of Jewish groups have significant concerns about how Israel’s conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip this spring will correlate into anti-Jewish sentiment on North American college campuses as the fall semester...
The BDS ice-cream war has created a political taste test
It’s the kind of a controversy that leaves a lot of Israelis cold. Citizens of the Jewish state may not have been pleased about the news that the Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream company had bowed...
B’nai Brith Canada urges national grocery chains to drop Ben & Jerry’s products
B’nai Brith Canada is urging Israel supporters to sign an open letter that demands major Canadian grocery chains to stop stocking Ben & Jerry’s products following the ice-cream maker’s decision to boycott the West...