Category: Israel

(JTA) — One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company’s board chair for the first time publicly rejected the suggestion that the move was antisemitic. And the brand’s parent company, Unilever, disavowed the movement to boycott Israel. The disavowal comes as Unilever […]

Retaliating against boycott decision, NYC grocery chain to reduce Ben & Jerry’s sales – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — It has been a question insiders have posed all week: Could Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank trigger many or all of the laws that U.S. states have passed in recent years to hurt the Israel boycott movement? Well, five states are already looking into […]

Decades after the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism was a form of racism, Zionists continue to be maligned on college campuses, social media and city streets. Confronting the ongoing hostility toward Zionism in a positive, multifaceted way, Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) launched “This is What Zionism Looks Like,” a campaign that […]

Dani Dayan, former Israeli diplomat in NY and settler leader, picked to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement