Ben & Jerry on Banning Only Israel: If We Boycotted Every Injustice We Shouldn't Sell Ice Cream Anywhere

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42% : When pressed on the fact that the great State of Texas continues to enjoy abundant supplies of their ice cream despite its harsh limits on women's access to abortion (the new law encourages Texans to sue in civil court even the Uber driver who drove the pregnant patient to an abortion clinic), Cohen admitted: "By that reasoning, we should not sell any ice cream anywhere.
42% : So we took a look at the list of countries where Ben & Jerry's is sold and found Malaysia, where, according to the US government's 2020 report, there are significant human rights violations, unlawful or arbitrary killings by the government or its agents; reports of torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary detention; problems with the independence of the judiciary; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; restrictions on free expression, the press, and the internet, censorship, site blocking, and criminal libel laws; substantial interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of association; restrictions on and intolerance of religious freedom; restrictions on freedom of movement; serious acts of corruption; lack of investigation of and accountability for violence against women; trafficking in persons; violence against transgender persons; criminalization of consensual adult same-sex sexual activities; and child labor.
39% : Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Sunday admitted in an interview on HBO that they have no plans to stop selling their ice cream in states like Texas that has recently gone all out in attempting to erase Roe v. Wade - the Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion in the United States (Scoop:
37% : Another place where you can gulp down as much Ben & Jerry's ice cream is the United Arab Emirates, where according to the same US government, same 2020 report, there is torture in detention; arbitrary arrest and detention, including incommunicado detention, by government agents; political prisoners; government interference with privacy rights; undue restrictions on free expression and the press, including criminalization of libel, censorship, and Internet site-blocking; substantial interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedoms of expression and association; the inability of citizens to choose their government in free and fair elections; and criminalization of same-sex sexual activity, although no cases were publicly reported during the year.

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