Anti-Israel Bias
In 2016, Rev. Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay compared Israel and the alleged “exclusionary and violent character of the Israeli Zionist project” to South Africa’s racial apartheid.
Marvin Rotrand, national director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, said “haters can spin anti-Zionism anyway they want; the reality is it results in hate and violence aimed at Jews everywhere.”
“Israel remains the only member state in the history of the U.N. that has been singled out for taking a defensive military action to protect its civilian population from indiscriminate violence,” wrote the agency.
StandWithUs arranged it, saying Israel has been targeted unfairly by the United Nations as part of a sustained, vindictive agenda.
The company omitted Ben & Jerry’s boycott decision, made in July 2020, from its disclosures because it knew it could create significant downside for the company, according to the complaint.
Since its launch in the spring, the COI Elimination Act has garnered the support of 34 members of Congress, including seven Democrats.
“This is just another example of old-fashioned Jew-hatred using a modern platform,” said Steven Rosenberg, publisher and editor of the “Jewish Journal” of Greater Boston.
“We believe the nature of [it] is further demonstration of disproportionate attention given to Israel that has carried over from the founding of this council and must stop,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Michèle Taylor.
Report: “The videos are part of what the ice-cream company dubbed ‘Scooper Series: Social Mission.’ ”
“It is not acceptable to target or make vulnerable Jewish institutions or organizations, full stop,” wrote Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) in a statement.
In a letter, they asked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to make good on her November threat to Ben & Jerry’s, and its parent company Unilever, to a list of companies from which the state must divest.
For Jewish organizations that roundly rejected the Commission of Inquiry’s creation in May 2021, the contents of the report were not unexpected.
