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Jewish Leaders Call for Reversal of Ben and Jerry's Boycott Decision
(Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said Tuesday: We are deeply disappointed in Ben & Jerry's decision to cease operations with its Israeli licensee. We commend Ben & Jerry's Israel, which operated the company's first factory outside the U.S. as a lessee beginning over 30 years ago. We encourage Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns Ben & Jerry's, to recognize that boycotts of Israel are discriminatory and further inflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We call upon Unilever to override the decision of its subsidiary Ben & Jerry's.