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<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Very happy to see Swallwell fail after his immature ignorant behavior with a Chink whore spy.

Monkey Pox, right on time to give Democrats an excuse to cheat in the next election.

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream 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 on the occupied 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,” 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 territories Israel captured in
the 1967 Six-Day War.

“We are aware of the Unilever announcement,” Ben & Jerry’s
tweeted on Wednesday.

“While our parent company has taken this decision, we do not
agree with it.”

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 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.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/ben-jerrys-slams-parent-company- unilevers-sale-of-ice-cream-brand-to-israeli-licensee/

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