Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Unilever on Tuesday that Israel would “acting aggressive” against Ben & Jerry’s decision on the decision of the subsidiary to stop selling his ice cream in the West Bank who was occupied by Israel and fought for East Jerusalem.
Unilever conglomerate goods Acquiring Vermont based ice cream company in 2000.
Ben & Jerry’s said in a statement on Monday that it had told the old level holders _ responsible for producing and distributing ice cream in Israel _ that it would not update the license agreement when it ended At the end of 2022.
Bennett’s office said in a statement that he talked to Unilever CEO Alan Jop about what he called “Anti-Israeli,” added that the move would have “serious, legal and vice versa consequences and it would act aggressively against all boycott acts are directed Adap of its citizens.
” The announcement was one of the highest profile companies that rebuked Aeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israeli region was arrested in the Mideast War in 1967.
Most of the international communities considered this illegal settlement under international law and peaceful barriers to Palestine.
About 700,000 Israelis now live in settlements, around 500,000 in the West Bank are occupied and 200,000 in East Jerusalem.
Israel considered the whole of Jerusalem the capital, while Palestinians looked for it as the capital of the future.
Ben & Jerry’s said the announcement was that the sale of ice cream in the areas sought by Palestine for the independent state was “inconsistent with our values.” The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Ministry criticized Monday as “sustainable and aggressive pressure submission from Extreme anti-Israel group ” and said the company worked with “economic terrorism.
” Avi Zinger, Israeli License CEO Ben & Jerry, told public broadcaster on Tuesday that the parent company had long pressed it to stop the distribution of occupied regions Israel, but he refused because it would violate Israeli law.
He said the decision of Ben & Jerry not to extend the “biggest achievement” license of the BDS movement that advocate for boycott, divestment, and institutional sanctions and the Israeli business in what was said to be a campaign without violence against violence against violence Israel against Palestine.