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<p>July 28, 2021 - <a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=27625">https://qudsnen.co/?p=27625</a></p><p>Anuradha Mittal, the chair of Ben & Jerry’s board of directors,
stated on Tuesday she is proud of Ben & Jerry’s decision to end
sales in Israeli-Occupied Palestinian territories, saying such action is
not anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>“I am proud of @benandjerrys for taking a stance to end sale of its
ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” Mittal tweeted.</p>
<p>“This action is not anti-Semitic. I am not anti-Semitic. The vile hate that has been thrown at me does it intimidate me.<br>
Pls work for peace – not hatred!” she continued, as for the first time
publicly rejected the suggestion that the move was antisemitic.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I am proud of <a href="https://twitter.com/benandjerrys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benandjerrys</a>
for taking a stance to end sale of its ice cream in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory. This action is not anti-Semitic. I am not
anti-Semitic. The vile hate that has been thrown at me does it
intimidate me. <br>Pls work for peace – not hatred!</p>
<p>— Anuradha Mittal (@Mittaloak) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mittaloak/status/1420025947051466771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Mittal has not specified the “vile hate” she has received, but it is
clearly referred to Israeli officials who claimed that Ben & Jerry’s
decision was antisemitic.</p>
<p>Israel’s Ambassador to the US and UN Gilad Erdan has sent letters to
the governors of 35 American states that have anti-BDS laws, asking them
to act against Ben & Jerry’s decision.</p>
<p>“I urged them to act against Ben & Jerry’s decision to not sell
its products in the eastern part of Jerusalem and Judea & Samaria.
We will make clear to Ben & Jerry’s that its antisemitic decision
will have consequences,” Erdan tweeted.</p>
<p>Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also vowed to ask the American states to take legal action against the ice cream company.</p>
<p>“Over 30 states in the United States have passed anti-BDS legislation
in recent years”, Lapid tweeted. “I plan on asking each of them to
enforce these laws against Ben & Jerry’s. They will not treat the
State of Israel like this without a response.”</p>
<p>Lapid also called Ben & Jerry’s decision as a “shameful surrender
to antisemitism, to BDS and to all that is wrong with the anti-Israel
and anti-Jewish discourse.</p>
<p>Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett also spoke with the head
of Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, and asked him to take a “very
serious view of the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to boycott Israel.”</p>
<p>The Well-known American firm announced last week that it will no
longer sell its products for illegal settlements in the West Bank and
the eastern part of Jerusalem.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Read our full statement: <a href="https://t.co/2mGWYGN4GA">https://t.co/2mGWYGN4GA</a> <a href="https://t.co/kFeu7aXOf3">pic.twitter.com/kFeu7aXOf3</a></p>
<p>— Ben & Jerry's (@benandjerrys) <a href="https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1417128875075719172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The company said in a statement on its website “it is inconsistent
with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).”</p></div>
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