Ben & Jerry Defend Boycott Targeting Israel, Boast ‘We Are Also Proud Jews’

On Wednesday, the two leftists who founded the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, defended the company’s decision to refuse to sell their product in the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria in Israel.

In a piece in The New York Times pompously titled, “We’re Ben and Jerry. Men of Ice Cream, Men of Principle,” the two men, who have espoused leftist positions for years, as detailed here, started by acknowledging, “We are the founders of Ben & Jerry’s.” Then they immediately proclaimed, despite their endorsement of a policy that targets Jews in their own holy land, “We are also proud Jews. It’s part of who we are and how we’ve identified ourselves for our whole lives.”