Hooray: Ben & Jerry’s owner Unilever
is dropping the anti-Israel lunacy
Posted By: Mercedes44, 3/22/2025 6:23:54 AM
Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food got me through untold breakups in college. Drowning my sorrows in a pint was a great consolation prize for my heartbreak. But in 2021, I soured on the brand when it announced plans to stop selling its ice cream in what it referred to as the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Its hostility to Israeli policy grew even more poisonous after Oct. 7. The good news? Recent pushback by critics — and consumers — prompted B&J’s parent company, Unilever, to respond, just as other companies have been shedding their DEI and woke images. And that’s major grounds for hope.
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Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food got me through untold breakups in college.
Drowning my sorrows in a pint was a great consolation prize for my heartbreak.
But in 2021, I soured on the brand when it announced plans to stop selling its ice cream in what it referred to as the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
Its hostility to Israeli policy grew even more poisonous after Oct. 7.
The good news?
Recent pushback by critics — and consumers — prompted B&J’s parent company, Unilever, to respond, just as other companies have been shedding their DEI and woke images.
And that’s major grounds for hope.
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