KAPO WATCH: Ben & Jerry’s Picks Israel Eliminationist Peter Beinart To Defend Boycott the Jews (BDS) Policy To Franchisees

A new low for Ben & Jerry’s. However, this is not a surprise. Useful idiots such as Peter Beinart are very often exploited by Israel-haters to legitimize and promote the BDS (boycott the Jews) Movement. Pro-Israel groups in the United States need to intensify their pressure on states with anti-BDS laws, so that Ben and Jerry’s is penalized for their discriminatory and anti-Jewish policies.

Related – EXPOSED: Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair Supported Radical Palestinian NGO

Related – Peter Beinart promotes the idea of a one-state solution. And the state isn’t Israel 

Peter Beinart Called for the Elimination of the Jewish State. Ben And Jerry’s Tapped Him to Defend Israel Boycott to Franchisees

By Free Beacon, August 8, 2021

Ben & Jerry’s brought in vocal Israel critic and anti-Zionist author Peter Beinart to talk to its store owners about Israel’s “illegal occupation” earlier this week, after franchisees raised concerns about the company’s boycott of the Jewish state, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

On the conference call with Ben & Jerry’s franchisees and store managers, Beinart argued that Israel is illegally occupying territory that it seized from Jordan in an offensive war in 1967 and claimed that the Jewish state sends soldiers into Palestinian villages to abduct minors, according to a source familiar with the content of the call.

The company’s decision to invite Beinart—an advocate for the Israel boycott movement who has called for the abolition of the Jewish state—to address insider objections indicates that it is doubling down on its criticism of Israel in the face of internal and external fallout. Thirty Ben & Jerry’s franchise store owners recently sent a letter to the company, which is owned by Unilever, asking it to “re-examine and withdraw” its boycott decision. Unilever has responded with reassurances that the company remains committed to doing business in the Jewish state even as its subsidiary continues its boycott.

Beinart told the Washington Free Beacon that he was not compensated by Ben & Jerry’s or Unilever and has no financial arrangement with either company. He said he was invited to speak on the call because he has publicly promoted boycotts of contested areas of Israel.

“I wrote a NYT op-ed calling for settlement boycott in 2012. I’ve espoused this view for a long time,” said Beinart.

Beinart said he could not recall if the descriptions of his comments during the call were “entirely accurate,” and said it was “very unlikely I said ‘offensive war’ given how I generally speak about 1967.” He declined to provide additional details about his remarks.

The ice cream company sent a memo to franchisees inviting them to “join us for a learning opportunity and respectful discussion with author and Middle East expert, Peter Beinart.”

Beinart recently disclosed in his newsletter that he has “spoken privately to [Ben & Jerry’s] executives and encouraged their efforts” on the boycott campaign, adding that “no one has produced any independent evidence that the company is hostile to Jews.”

Beinart was one of the most prominent supporters of the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq while serving as the editor of an unapologetically Zionist New Republic in the early 2000s. In the years since, he has offered countless apologies and repositioned himself as a leading critic of Israel and Zionism, landing a New York Times column in the process. Beinart now calls Israel an apartheid state and says that the pro-Israel community silences and intimidates critics.

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