The ice cream brothers are being castigated everywhere for this interview where they’re asked some tough questions regarding apparent inconsistencies regarding their stance on Israeli apartheid. If they boycott Israel, why aren’t they boycotting other places? The one brother to speak during the interview is at a loss for words at this line of questioning during much of it, and this is apparently evidence that they are morons who can’t defend their position.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
I’m sure they have plenty of things they’d like to say, but don’t want to lose their investors or their customer base. Journalists like the nobody interviewing them here have nothing to lose. The co-founders have quite a bit to lose in an interview that could go awry quickly.
Is the systematic dehumanization of over a million human beings, corralled and controlled in an open-air prison on the same level as more regulation of abortion? I’d say that it doesn’t come close. I’m sure B&J would like to say something like that, but they are smart, and don’t say anything.
Their company is also private. They can do whatever the F they want. B&J could’ve told the interviewer as much, but it would result in fallout. Private companies need to make a profit to survive. Taking an absolutist stance on every single issue would result in their company closing permanently. Everyone picks their battles. B&J are doing that here.
I don’t have to agree on every single political principle of the person I’m buying from or selling to. I can choose to boycott someone if I want to, it’s my decision. I don’t have to justify it to anyone. Neither does B&J, and especially not to a drive-by journalist far too eager to watch livelihoods burn as a result of an interview.
Israel is a US welfare colony, whose values are not in any way similar to the values that gave birth to American independence. They have extensive propaganda networks throughout our own country, and use intimidation and threats to silence any criticism. They exercise far too much influence on our own government, which brings them riches galore and allows them to maintain a perpetural war footing with the neighboring countries. They don’t make any attempt at peace because they can afford not to. American taxpayers foot the bill, as they always have, and our leaders turn a blind eye to flagrant atrocities committed by this ethnic apartheid state.
