While Israel murders and brutalizes Palestinians daily, Ben & Jerry’s, one
of the most progressive international companies, continues to operate on
stolen Palestinian land.

Call on Ben & Jerry’s to stop supporting apartheid in Palestine.

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John,

Last month, during the eleven-day assault by Israeli military on the Gaza
Strip, 256 Palestinians, including 66 children, died. And last week,
thousands of right-wing nationalists paraded around Jerusalem shouting
‘death to Arabs’.

The only way to stop the never-ending cycle of settlement expansion and
violence is to make the economic cost of this illegal occupation too high
to bear. 

Ben & Jerry’s has been one of the world’s most progressive companies since
its inception, but they continue to sell and operate on stolen Palestinian
land. 

And if we can get them to stop supporting the apartheid regime, other
global companies like Puma and Motorola will be forced to follow suit.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Ben & Jerry’s: stop supporting the brutal occupation of Palestine

The recent violence in the region is just the latest in the chapter of
oppression of Palestinians -- a conflict that is marked by decades of
apartheid, colonization, land theft, forced evictions, demolitions, and
displacement of Palestinians by settlers waving Israel’s flag.

While Israeli settlers on stolen Palestinian land use freezers to store
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, people in Gaza have no choice but to use them to
store the bodies of dead Palestinians babies as was the case after the
deadly assault when close to 2,000 were killed in 2014.

The company’s normally active social media has been silent since the
eleven-day assault. We know from inside sources that Ben & Jerry's is
deciding right now whether to pull out of Israel for good.

[ [link removed] ]Call on Ben & Jerry’s and other companies to end its complicity in the
apartheid of Palestinian people.

After decades of silence, the world is speaking out against the apartheid
of Palestinian people in a real way -- in London alone, 100,000 people
marched the streets in solidarity with Palestinians last month.

And we know when SumOfUs pushes corporations on the issue of Palestine,
they listen. When close to 200,000 SumOfUs supporters called on Airbnb to
pull its listings from illegally occupied Palestine we got it to
temporarily agree to delist.

More than 150 organizations around the world have called on Ben & Jerry’s
to leave Israel. Let’s join them and make this happen.

[ [link removed] ]Call on Ben & Jerry’s to end its association with the apartheid regime
in Israel now.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Angus and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid
and Persecution
Human Rights Watch. 27 April 2021.
 
[ [link removed] ]Why are some community members boycotting Ben and Jerry's? Here's what
we know.
Burlington Free Press. 12 June 2021.
 
[ [link removed] ]Ben & Jerry's freezes when it comes to Palestine
Middle East Eye. 4 June 2020.
 
[ [link removed] ]Gaza: No place to bury the dead
Al Jazeera. 5 August 2014.
 
[ [link removed] ]Israeli nationalists march in East Jerusalem, raising tensions with
Palestinians
Reuters. 15 June 2021.

 

 

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