(JNS) Melanie Phillips - Last summer, the Unilever-owned company Ben & Jerry's said it would stop selling its ice-cream in "occupied Palestinian territory." Unilever has now sold Ben & Jerry's Israeli interests to the licensee who has sold its product in Israel and the disputed territories for the past 34 years and will now continue to do so. This shows what can be achieved when there's a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry. Arizona and Illinois had divested their pension funds from Unilever; other states threatened to follow. The source of anti-Israel bigotry is a narrative about the Middle East that is deemed to be true even though it is based entirely on lies. There has never been any "Palestinian territory," and the "West Bank" has been a legal no-man's land ever since Israel was created. The claim that it is "occupied" by Israel rests upon a willful misinterpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Moreover, the Palestinian cause is based on a fictional historic Palestinian identity constructed solely with the aim of exterminating Israel and denying the truth that it is the historic national homeland of the Jewish people. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
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