Скачать или смотреть EXCLUSIVE: Ben & Jerry's boss protests company silence on Gaza

In a PoliticsJOE exclusive interview, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, explains why he is protesting his own parent company, Unilever, which also owns Magnum, over its complicity in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Cohen argues that his activism around Palestine and Gaza is being actively suppressed and that by continuing to do business in Israel, Unilever is making him complicit in violence. As he puts it, “people are being killed in my name ... with my money.”

Cohen calls for an independent Ben & Jerry’s so the company can once again live up to its founding values of common decency, human rights, and social justice. For decades, Ben & Jerry’s has been known for taking bold stands on global issues, from climate justice to racial equality, but Cohen believes that its legacy is now at risk. He argues that corporate silence in the face of war crimes is not neutrality, but complicity, and that doing business as usual in Israel directly undermines the moral credibility of the brand.

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