Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s, published an op ed in yesterday’s NY Times, about the controversy over Unilever’s decision to abandon the Occupied Territories as a market for their ice cream. In it, they strongly affirmed their commitment to the partial boycott (though they didn’t use the term and couldn’t […]
Ben & Jerry’s: (Ice Cream) Wars of the Jews
DONATE: I’ve created a Facebook fundraiser for Tikun Olam and my fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media. Proceeds support my independent research and journalism and the struggle against apartheid and racism in Israel. Please donate here. * * The ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote his famous account of the Judean wars against Rome called […]
Suspend US Aid to Israel: NOW!
UPDATE: As soon as I posted a link to my Facebook account, its algorithm flagged the image to the left as content too graphic for its readers to see (see censored post to the right). This algorithm censorship is repulsive. As the conflict in Jerusalem spreads to Gaza, where Israel has just murdered 9 Palestinian […]
Shin Bet’s Campaign Against Palestine
Several major international and Israeli human rights groups have recently issued reports calling Israel an apartheid state “from the river to the sea.” This means that Israel has devised a system keeping all non-Jews, whether inside the Green Line or outside (West Bank), under a racist system maintaining them in a state of perpetual oppression. […]
