Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's is the latest company to face the force of consumer power as it faces its own boycott, but the brand is no stranger to controversy.
"He's pro peace," Erikson said."He's been pretty clear on condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine and Russia's war of aggression, but he's also been clear that the U.S. should use its full power to push for diplomacy and an end of suffering for both Ukraine and the Russian citizens as quickly as possible."
Cohen himself said in a statement:"I think the U.S. should use its power to negotiate an end to the war, not prolong the death and destruction by supplying more weapons." The news has led to calls for boycott on Twitter, with some people calling Ben & Jerry's"woke" and"fascist."would no longer sell its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory after 2022, in a press release posted to its website.
"We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region," a statement on the company website read."We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year."
It was seen as the company's intention not to support Israel's occupation of Palestine. Ben & Jerry's was responding to concerns raised by a group called Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, according to the Associated Press.called it"one of the strongest and highest-profile rebukes by a well-known company of Israel's policy of settling its citizens on war-won lands."of being one of many companies profiting from migrant children in the United States.
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