Vermonters for Justice in PalestineBen & Jerry's Out of
Israel's Illegal Settlements
Israel's Illegal Settlements
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css buttons by Css3Menu.com Here are email addresses and/or phone numbers for use on Free Cone Day (Tuesday April 10th) to contact Ben & Jerry’s about sales of ice cream from their Israeli factory in illegal settlements. So on April 10th, please make your appeal to Ben & Jerry’s, using the following information. Please send us an email Boycott@vtjp.org or use this form with any questions, and to let us know how it went. Email Addresses
Telephone: Call +1 802-846-1500. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern USA), Monday through Friday. To leave a direct message for Rob Michalak, Global Director of Social Mission. 802-846-1500, then press 1, then you'll have to spell out his last and first name, followed by #. Suggested Messages (of course, personalizing your message is more powerful) - Suggested phone call text: Hello. My name is [name], and I’m from _________. I am appealing to Ben & Jerry's on Free Cone Day to stop selling its “peace & love” ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in Occupied Palestine. Your franchise in Israel should have nothing to do with Israeli settlements, all of which are built illegally on stolen land. Please honor your Social Mission. Don’t do business with Israel’s occupation and settlements. Until you do, I will not buy your ice cream and I will urge my friends not to. - Suggested e-mail text: Dear Ben & Jerry’s; I am appealing to Ben & Jerry's on Free Cone Day to stop selling its "peace & love" ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in Occupied Palestine. Today, April 10, would have been Rachel Corrie’s birthday. Fifteen years ago, Rachel Corrie, a 24-year-old American woman from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli militarized bulldozer while trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Gaza. Today, Palestinian Ahed Tamimi is spending 8 months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier when she was 16 years old near her home. This was shortly after learning her cousin had been shot in the head with a rubber-coated, steel bullet during protests in the occupied West Bank. Amnesty International said Ahed’s sentence "is a flagrant attempt to intimidate those who dare challenge the circumstances of the ongoing occupation" and Israeli authorities "have no regard for the rights of Palestinian children." Over 6000 Palestinians (300 children) are currently imprisoned by Israel. Also, in the first 3 months of 2018, 38 Palestinians (including 6 children) have been killed by Israelis, 5 Israelis killed by Palestinians (https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/). In honor of Rachel and Ahed, and all victims of the occupation, I urge you to stop selling your “peace & love” ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Every pint of ice cream you sell and every cone you scoop in those settlements legitimizes Israel’s brutal occupation and settlement regime. This is not what we expect from "Vermont's Finest." Honor your Social Mission. Stop sales and catering of your products in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, even if doing so means you must sell or close your franchise in Israel, or suspend its operations until the occupation ends. css buttons by Css3Menu.com |
