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When Ben and Jerry's boycotts the West Bank due to Israel's illegal settlements, the Israeli president calls it terrorism, and claims it is a boycott against Is
by pthread_t 5y ago
When Ben and Jerry's boycotts the West Bank due to Israel's illegal settlements, the Israeli president calls it terrorism, and claims it is a boycott against Israel [0].
When people ask why Palestinians living in the West Bank are treated abhorrently, where they cannot use the same roads as Israelis, they cannot use the same legal system as Israelis, etc. Israelis claim that the West Bank is not a part of Israel.
As a Jew that grew up believing Israel is righteous and can do no wrong, I have had quite the rude awakening. I am not alone -- 25% of American Jews now believe Israel is an apartheid state [1]. Even young evangelicals are no longer blindly embracing Israel [2].
[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-president-ben-jerry-s-boycott-is-part-of-a-new-form-of-terrorism-1.10017445 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-presid...
[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-a-quarter-of-us-jews-think-israel-is-apartheid-state/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-a-quarter-of-us-jew...
[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/as-israel-increasingly-relies-on-us-evangelicals-for-support-younger-ones-are-walking-away-what-polls-show/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...