Power Up: Progressive Pro-Israel groups come out in support of Ben & Jerry's

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Power Up: Progressive Pro-Israel groups come out in support of Ben & Jerry's

By Jacqueline Alemany
Anchor of Power Up
Today at 6:59 a.m. EDT
with Tobi Raji

The people
A DOUBLE SCOOP 🍨🚨: A group of progressive, pro-Israel Jewish groups are issuing a letter to U.S. governors today in support of Ben & Jerry's ice cream after the iconic Vermont-based company announced last week it would discontinue sales of its ice cream in “occupied Palestinian Territory.”

The company, whose founders are both Jewish, will continue to sell their ice cream in Israel. But Israeli government officials have called on U.S. lawmakers to sanction Ben & Jerry's in states with anti-boycott laws and have labeled the ice cream maker as “antisemitic.”

Signatories of the letter by eight groups including J Street, the New Israel Fund, and Americans for Peace Now condemn “legal action against Ben & Jerry's or its parent company Unilever in response to its decision to no longer sell ice cream in occupied Palestinian territory.”

• “We are especially dismayed that some have degraded the discussion around the issue by calling the move antisemitic, a dehumanization of the Jewish people, and even an act of terrorism,” according to the letter provided to Power Up. “Such discourse not only clouds the facts, but is extremely polarizing, deeply painful to many Jews and harms the fight against the growing tide of actual, deadly hatred that our community faces worldwide.”
• The letter notes a key distinction: “None of our organizations endorse boycotts of Israel or support the global BDS movement — and many of us actively advocate against them. At the same time, like Ben & Jerry’s, we make a clear distinction between the State of Israel and the Palestinian territories it militarily occupies. This critical differentiation between the State of Israel and the settlements established in occupied territory in violation of international law is rightly recognized and maintained in various ways by official US policy and the constitutionally-protected actions of private individuals and organizations.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/26/power-up-progressive-pro-israel-groups-come-out-support-ben-jerry/

[WHITT]

1. S.O.P.

“We are especially dismayed that some have degraded the discussion around the issue by calling the move antisemitic, a dehumanization of the Jewish people, and even an act of terrorism,”

That's the standard tactic of the fascist RightWing Likud. Any criticism is anti-semitic, and the Palestinians fighting back against their illegal military occupation makes them terrorists, which is exactly the opposite of the 'Geneva Declaration on Terrorism' and other international treaties.

[Israeli]

3. Sadly its not just the tactic of Likud

its the tactic of our Right wing in general and also many from our Centralists .

[Israeli]

2. Here is another Eugene

https://www.progressiveisrael.org/

MISSION

Partners for Progressive Israel is a progressive American Zionist organization dedicated to the achievement of a durable and just peace between the State of Israel and its neighbors, which includes an end to Israel’s occupation based on a two-state solution. We support Israelis working to ensure social justice, civil rights, and equality for all of Israel’s inhabitants. Partners promotes a just Israeli society by cultivating Jewish-Arab partnerships and seeks to deepen American Jews’ understanding of the complexities of both Israeli and Palestinian societies.

They are allied with the Israeli Meretz party and their history goes back to Hashomer Hatzair which is the same movement
my kibbutz belongs to .

Back to Ben and Jerry's : https://www.progressiveisrael.org/haaretz-oped-on-ben-and-jerrys/

[Mosby]

4. Lying about the land dispute makes peace less likely.

[Israeli]

5. Who is lying Mosby ???

“Ben & Jerry’s is not boycotting Israel, but rather the settlements. You may not like it, but this is the price of settlement expansion, land grabs, and the blurring of the Green Line,” tweets MK Michal Rozin.

Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/meretz-mk-ben-jerrys-decision-a-result-of-settlement-expansion-land-grabs/