Anuradha Mittal says the action against Israel is not antisemitic and that she is not antisemitic

Anuradha Mittal, the board chair of Ben & Jerry’s, took to Twitter on Tuesday to defend the company's decision to stop selling ice cream in the region referred to by the international community as the West Bank and by the Israeli government as Judea and Samaria.

"I am proud of Ben & Jerry's for taking a stance to end sale of its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," Mittal wrote to her Twitter followers. "This action is not anti-Semitic. I am not anti-Semitic. The vile hate that has been thrown at me does it[sic] intimidate me. Pls work for peace – not hatred!"

The statement by parent company Unilever last week to not sell ice cream in the West Bank while continuing to do business in Israel was made without consulting the Ben & Jerry's board, who planned to put out a different statement making no mention of continuing to do business in the Jewish state.... Read More: i24