Posted on 06/15/2022 7:19:58 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The narrator, an anti-Israel activist, counselled the company’s board last year ahead of its decision to stop selling its products in the “occupied territories.”
By World Israel News Staff
Ben & Jerry’s is requiring all new employees to watch four videos about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, all of which appear to be biased against the Jewish state, the Jewish Insider reported.
The videos are part of the company’s “Scooper Series: Social Mission” concerning the conflict as well as racism in the U.S., an employee told the Jewish Insider.
Featured in one of the videos is anti-Israel activist Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director. Shakir, a BDS promoter, advocates for a one-state solution to the conflict – meaning an end to the Jewish state.
“Omar Shakir’s background and history of anti-Israel activity, and his repeated use of false claims and hyperbolic propaganda, highlights HRW’s ideological hostility to Israel and retreat from the universal principles of human rights,” according to NGO Monitor.
In the video, Shakir alleges, “If you look at the recent escalation that took place in May of 2021, it started over discriminatory efforts to force Palestinians out of their homes in occupied East Jerusalem as part of this larger policy.”
“The policy also extends to the Gaza Strip. Although the Israeli government withdrew its settler population and ground forces in 2005, the Israeli government continues to exercise control over Gaza,” he claims.
Shakir reportedly counselled the Ben & Jerry’s board last year ahead of its decision to stop selling its products in what it referred to as “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” Jewish Insider noted.
In April 2019, an Israeli court upheld a deportation order against Shakir, giving him two weeks to leave the country. Israel’s interior minister ordered Shakir’s deportation in May 2018, calling him a “boycott activist.”
Israel enacted a law in 2017 barring entry to any foreigner who “knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel.”
The court said that Shakir “continues his actions publicly to advance a boycott against Israel, but it’s not on the stages at conferences or in university panels, rather through disseminating his calls to advance boycott primarily through his Twitter account and by other means.”
It cited Shakir’s support on Twitter for Airbnb’s decision to remove postings from Israelis living in Judea and and Samaria as an example. Airbnb later backtracked on that decision.
Neither Ben & Jerry’s nor Shakir responded to Jewish Insider’s request for comment.
Who besides Jo Jo Brandon eats that crap?
It sounds like a hostile work environment.
Wouldn’t their time be better spent making and selling ice cream? That would be the capitalist way. But I guess the fascist/communist way is to consider employees a captive audience for propaganda and brainwashing.
What a couple of stupid fags they are.
Unilever wasn’t denazified.
BotH are avowed Marxists. Now you know the “why” of what they do.
I think Ben and Jerry both sold their company to Unilever.
What do you expect from a business where the owners would at first gratify themselves by spewing their “dna” into their batches of ice cream.
Official ice cream of the antichrist
B&J, the sell outs sold out to Unilever but that was after I sold my shares in BS&JunkJelly. My husband bought them for me as a Birthday present years ago as a joke. The joke was I made money on Liberal junk food. As a capitalist my husband bought low and I sold high. We had a good laugh on the irony of it. I’m sure WuHu Brandon would love their pasture patty delight with lumps.
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Never ate any Ben & Jerry ice cream, and never will.
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