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Ben and Jerry's U.S. Franchisees Call for Company to Rescind Israel Decision
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Aaron Bandler - Ben & Jerry's franchisees in Seattle, Boston, San Francisco and St. Louis have written to the company calling on them to rescind their July 19 decision to stop doing business in the West Bank. "The decision that has been made to terminate the contract with Ben & Jerry's licensee in Israel...has imposed and will to continue to impose substantial financial costs on all of us," the letter stated. "More importantly, the controversy your recent actions have brought upon our local businesses has had an adverse effect on the value of our independently owned franchises and investments." The franchisees added that their respective families and communities "have shamed us personally for doing business not just with a company that draws controversy, but with one that continues to consider the calculated negative affect on its franchisees as acceptable collateral damage."