Shalom Kosher supermarket at 1361 Lamberton Drive in the Kemp Mill Center has announced it is dropping all Ben & Jerry's products, after the frozen dessert company announced it would no longer sell its ice cream "in the Occupied Palestinian Territory." The Ben & Jerry's decision targeted Israeli settlements, and has triggered a firestorm of blowback for the politically-engaged company, and the company may now be in violation of recent state and local laws that penalize entities that cut financial ties with Israeli settlements. Even its parent company, Unilever, is distancing itself from the ice cream maker.
But local businesses like Shalom Kosher are taking more immediate action. "Due to the recent announcement by Ben & Jerry's, Shalom Kosher has removed all of the Ben & Jerry's products from our store, and will no longer sell their products effective immediately," the store said in a statement, adding, "We stand with Israel!"
I'll boycott Shalom then.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous comments indicate a total lack of conviction, zero credibility. If you can’t attach *your* name to *your* statements…then, they’re meaningless.
DeletePeople who defend all Israeli actions - even the blatantly criminal ones - remind me of people who defend all cops - even the blatantly criminal ones. All they're doing is severely damaging the reputation of that which they think they're defending.
ReplyDeleteSo they support apartheid. Good to know. I won’t shop there then.
ReplyDeleteYou can’t be in violation of any statue saying you can’t boycott a foreign power, that’s unconstitutional and will be stricken down accordingly.
Well then I’ll be boycotting them, now that we know they support apartheid. There can be nothing less Jewish than supporting the Israeli governments apartheid of Palestinians. It’s disgusting.
ReplyDeleteThere can be nothing less Jewish than supporting anti-Semitic boycotts.
DeleteThere can be nothing less Jewish than blindly supporting an authoritarian state's attempt at literally wiping an ethnic group off the map.
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