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The progressive ice cream company says US should return ‘stolen indigenous land’ on Independence Day, sparking a huge backlash.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Progressive ice-cream maker Ben and Jerry’s is facing a huge boycott threat after tweeting on the Fourth of July that America should return “stolen indigenous land.”
The company took to Twitter on American Independence Day to say, “The United States was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it.”
The message was linked to a blog post on its website saying that the country should “start with Mount Rushmore,” the famous site with the carved faces of four American presidents that is located on land sacred to the Lakota Sioux Indian tribe.
“What is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom,” the post said in part.
This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: https://t.co/45smaBmORH pic.twitter.com/a6qp7LXUAE
— Ben & Jerry’s (@benandjerrys) July 4, 2023
Social media immediately exploded, with many critics calling for people to stop buying its ice cream and “Bud Light” the company. This referred to the ongoing consumer boycott of one of the products of the Budweiser beer conglomerate, after it signed a partnership deal with an extreme trans model in April. The anti-woke backlash has led to billions in losses, with the company barely able to even give its reduced-calorie beer away.
The date Ben and Jerry’s picked for its message was a special source of outrage, with Outkick reporter David Hookstead posting, “The scumbags at Ben & Jerry’s spent the 4th of July trashing America. Why worry about China when American companies will gladly share anti-American propaganda? Disgusting and shameful. Never apologize for loving America!”
Some Tweeters told Ben and Jerry’s to lead the way.
“But seriously now, close shop, or better yet, donate your business and everything you own in these lands that rightfully belong to the indigenous people, apologize to them, and return to the continent your ancestors came from. Now,” said one.
“I look forward to the virtue signaling Ben & Jerry’s returning their factory’s land to the Abenaki and Mohican Native Americans that have lived in Vermont for 10,000 years,” wrote another.
Politicians also took offense to the claim that the U.S. exists on stolen land.
“No it doesn’t,” Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Republican presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said succinctly.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah tweeted, “@BenandJerry’s are awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of the massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. I’m not sure they fully understand the legacy of the respective Dutch and British colonial powers.”
Ben & Jerry’s faced a boycott in 2021 as well, when consumers were angered by its announcement that it would not renew its franchise in Israel because they didn’t want their ice cream sold in “the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” as this was “inconsistent” with its progressive values.
In accordance with their anti-BDS laws, some U.S. states began divesting from parent company Unilever . The conglomerate lost some $26 billion before months later selling the Israel business to its longtime franchisee, who had refused to discriminate against customers based on where they lived.
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There is a fundamental ambiguity in human nature which Christian theology understands: we are free creatures with a capacity for good and evil, our evil inclinations described by Paul as the “law in our members” (Romans 7:23) which pulls away from Christ’s command to “love our neighbors as ourselves.” (Matthew 22:37-39) We humans are our own best friends and worst enemies. The human freedom of choice to follow or repudiate an ethical belief is at the very core of our being. Look a person in the face, and all you see is a human being, the telltale signs of evil or good may be submerged. Christ told us to identify a false prophet (or any bad actor) the way we “know a tree by its fruit,” (Matthew 7:15-20) and indeed this may be possible. A student of morality and politics knows how deeply this uncertainty stretches into all levels of analysis: personal, political, and international.
In the world of J.R.R Tolkien, we see good and evil starkly contrasted. Orcs, Nazgul, and Trolls are wicked abominations, easily recognized and branded by vile appearance and behavior. Yet even in Tolkien’s Christian-inspired view the fairest to look upon, the Elves, could also be selfish and evil. The Silmarillion was an epic based on the vengeful selfishness of the Elf Feanor. Lord of the Rings is a primal struggle of good and evil, where wise Faramir might resist the Ring’s temptation while his much-esteemed brother Boromir could not. Coming back to our world, the face that is undeniably “evil” can be hard to identify, other than by the fruit of one’s action. Though to us the face of Hitler is the image of evil, very few people anticipated his infamous deeds. Indeed, Hitler fooled Neville Chamberlain into peace, a man twenty years his senior. Alas, we cannot always see as presciently as we should into the nature and ambitions of men.
Faramir expressed our own apprehension about violence: “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” Faramir’s sentiments are appropriate and might be called a Christian Realist ethic.
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu voiced a similar reticence in the Tao Te Ching: “Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity, and, if compelled, will use them with only the utmost restraint.” In the West of course we have Just War Theory, that war must be avoided, and only embarked upon with regrets, and a responsibility to a just resolution. In both Tolkien and the Tao Te Ching we see a grim realization: weapons are not desirable, but they are part of the human toolset of fighting against injustice and trying to preserve peace.
Nowhere is the ambivalence perhaps clearer than in the 2nd Amendment: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” When in the history of humankind has anything subject to “well regulation” by the state not also risked being “infringed” by that same body? The intent to well-regulate a right is no guarantee of its correct enforcement any more than granting a right is a safeguard that it will not be abused. Many gun-rights T-shirts italicize “shall not be infringed,” forgetting the ambiguity of its connection to the first part: something “well-regulated.” The second amendment language carries with it an awareness of a human paradox here: we have a right to an abiding freedom, and a capacity to abuse it. Belief, and moral restraint, are the best and most immediate safeguard against it, but we know it is never infallible. Since weapons will not go away, belief and law must serve the unenviable task of “well-regulating.”
This crosswind is felt at all levels of human interaction: moral, political, and international. No doubt the authors of the Second Amendment appreciated that weapons could secure a nation’s safety, but also an imperative of responsible conduct. In their day, muzzle-loaders were far less deadly than a Glock pistol is now, and one cannot be certain by which thing the Founders would be more alarmed if they were transported to our time. Would it be the capacity of weapons to unleash mass damage, such as an AR-15? Or would it be irreverent and psychopathic spree shooters, repudiating all commitment to anything “well-regulated,” or indeed sacred? Arms control advocates, who are probably not as interested in guns, lobby for greater restraints which gun-loving conservatives see as impractical. Pew Research shows Americans are still intensely divided about the efficacy of such measures. Many Americans still favor guns for personal protection, while others wish there were fewer of them around.
Morally, then, some prefer guns for protection while others wish to eradicate their presence from society. Yet if the 400 million or so guns estimated to exist in the United States disappeared, what would happen to the security of the nation? This was part of the 2nd Amendments concern. And would the Founding Fathers perhaps be most alarmed about this: that our fingers are on a nuclear trigger that could spark a world-ending Armageddon? The Nuclear Non-Proliferation of 1968 displays the same tensions we feel at all other levels: that countries with nuclear weapons will use them responsibly as a means of deterrence. From the guns in our homes to the ICBMs in our silos, there is the deepest ambivalence about this capacity: to ignore the Biblical command never to harm or kill our fellow humans. If pacifists could dismiss this potential, we might join their efforts and disarm unilaterally, knowing that the fundamental ambiguity of our nature had been ironed out, but it has not.
We ask for many freedoms. Freedom of speech, assembly, and participation in the economy. In demanding freedom and rights, we must always be vigilant about responsibility. If one forsakes one, then the other is sure to fall, for a right is never divorced from a duty. The right to travel and be safe in public demands our personal attention to the right belief, responsibility, and law to make that happen. Weapons will always be part of the human toolset. It is only when weapons are armed with the wrong intents, practices, and laws, that they become harmful.
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Painting himself as a victim, former District Commander Ami Eshed acknowledges that he ignored orders from his superiors to break up illegal protests, admits that he treated left-wing demonstrators with soft touch in order to ‘prevent civil war.’
By World Israel News Staff
Outgoing Tel Aviv District Police Commander Ami Eshed, whose resignation speech sparked large protests throughout major cities in Israel on Wednesday evening, admitted in a press conference that he had refused orders to forcibly disperse illegal left-wing protests.
Portraying himself as a victim of right-wing pressure, Eshed acknowledged that the police in the Tel Aviv area had afforded special treatment to anti-judicial reform demonstrators.
For the last several months, demonstrators opposed to potential reforms to Israel’s legal system have blocked major thoroughfares and highways, lit fires, and stalked and harassed lawmakers outside of their homes, with little to no interference from police.
Following weeks of refusal to follow instructions from Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to break up illegal protests, Eshed was reassigned from his post to head a police training center – a move which was widely seen as a demotion.
Rather than accept the reassignment, Eshed resigned and gave a dramatic press conference in which he accused Ben-Gvir and Shabtai of pressuring him to enforce the law, which he characterized as “illegal” and “interference in internal decision making.”
Eshed said he was “paying a terrible cost for my choice to prevent civil war” and claimed that he “could have easily used disproportionate force and filled the ER at Ichilov [Hospital] at the end of every demonstration in Tel Aviv.
“We could have cleared Ayalon [Highway] within minutes at the terrible cost of cracking heads and breaking bones, at the cost of breaking the pact between police and the citizenry,” he added.
“A district commander must not avoid stating their opinion, must not bend their values.”
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Religious Zionism) told Radio 103 FM on Thursday morning that Eshed’s comments confirmed that his removal from his post was the correct decision.
“He was expected to follow orders, as happens in any democratic country,” Eliyahu said of Eshed. “I am very happy that Ami Eshad is leaving the police. We need to get [toxins] out [of the police force.]”
Speaking about the double standard regarding police enforcement towards left-wing protesters, Eliyahu said that “one of the things that is important to adhere to in any democratic country is the principle of equality. When a certain group is privileged and receives preferential treatment, this results in distrust and may lead to anarchy and the loss of power.”
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A tragic incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at a Walmart parking lot in Choctaw, Oklahoma. A 14-year-old boy unintentionally shot his 8-year-old brother in the chest while they sat inside a car while their mother was shopping.
Bystanders heard the gunshot and promptly called 911. Law enforcement stated that the boy was initially given aid by a responding officer, who was the first to be on scene.
Miraculously, the 8-year-old boy was alert and talking when the officers arrived. Responders took him to the University of Oklahoma trauma center. His condition is believed to be stable, and he is currently awaiting potential surgery.
Many outlets are reporting that the boy’s father is an Oklahoma City police officer and that the gun belongs to him. However, KOCO reported that police stated the 8-year-old and his brother are related to an employee of the police department, and it is unclear who the gun belongs to. An investigation is still ongoing, and more information will be released when available.
12-year-old Palestinian Arab boy saved by doctors at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital after he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle.
By World Israel News Staff
The parents of 12-year-old Suleiman Hassan, a Palestinian Arab boy from the Jordan Valley, never imagined that the routine ride on his bicycle near his home would end so dramatically.
The boy, who, like every other day, went out on his bicycle to get some air, was involved in a traffic accident recently and was very seriously injured. Only the emergency surgery he underwent at Hadassah Ein Kerem saved his life.
After being struck by a car, Hassan was airlifted to the trauma unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem, when it was clear to rescue forces in the area that his life was in danger due to his critical injury and damage to the connection between his head and neck.
Dr. Ohad Einav, a specialist from the orthopedic department at Hadassah Ein Kerem, who operated on him together with Dr. Ziv Asa, says, “The most significant and main injury suffered by the boy was a fracture in the connection between the head and neck, along with a tear of all the ligaments. Additionally, there was a superficial injury to the abdomen. Due to the serious injury, the head almost completely detached from the base of the neck.”
“After a thorough examination of his condition, we decided to perform surgery during which we attached the head to the neck,” Dr. Einav continued.
“We fought for the boy’s life, a large operating room team, including operating room nurses and anesthesiologists, followed by the intensive care and surgical department team.”
“This is a rare and unusual case with a 50% chance of mortality. The procedure itself is very complicated and took several hours, while in the operating room we used new plates and fixations in the damaged area. It was precisely because of such cases that I chose to specialize in trauma.”
“Our ability to save the child thanks to the most innovative knowledge and technology in the operating room is immensely satisfying. That’s the goal of all of us in the trauma complex.”
“Fortunately, the operation was a great success and we saved the boy’s life. He was discharged home with a cervical splint and, of course, under the dedicated medical care and monitoring of the hospital staff and myself.”
Suleiman’s father, who did not leave his son’s bedside during his days of hospitalization and recovery from the surgery, thanked the surgeons and other staff members who helped save his son’s life.
“I will thank you all my life for saving my dear only son. Bless you all, thanks to you he regained his life even when the odds were low and the danger was obvious. What saved him were professionalism, technology, and quick decision making by the trauma and orthopedics team. All I can say is a big thank you.”
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White House says Israel needs to protect civilians, restore water and power in Jenin, with zero acknowledgement that the city is under the jurisdiction of the PA.
By World Israel News Staff
A senior Biden administration official said that the White House is closely “monitoring” developments in Jenin following the largest Israeli incursion into the city since the Second Intifada, stressing Washington’s concerns about the civilian population in the area.
“Israel is a close ally and partner, and we are in touch with the national security and, certainly, the defense officials” regarding the counter-terror raid in Jenin, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a briefing on Wednesday morning.
“We support, certainly, Israel’s security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups,” Jean-Pierre continued.
“But it is imperative to take all possible steps to protect civilians from harm, and measures need to be taken to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground and restore critical services like electricity and water to the civilian population,” she added, suggesting that it was Israel’s responsibility to ensure that these services are restored.”
Jean-Pierre did not acknowledge that the city is under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.
“We are monitoring things very closely,” she emphasized.
One reporter at the briefing echoed a BBC journalist’s remarks that terrorists who were under the age of 18 had been killed, without mentioning that they were either 16 or 17 years old and armed combatants engaged in clashes with the IDF.
Jean-Pierre deflected the remark and instead focused on the U.S.- Israel partnership.
Democratic lawmakers Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ilhan Omar (MN) have repeatedly spoken out against the Jenin operation in recent days.
“Congress must stop funding this violent Israeli apartheid regime,” Tlaib posted on her Twitter account on Tuesday.
“How long will we continue to fund Netanyahu’s human rights abuses with zero strings attached? How long will we allow him to make peace impossible with no consequences?” Omar wrote on Twitter.
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