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Former Ben and Jerry’s Employee Says Anti-Israel Activist Spoke to Board Ahead of Boycott Decision
by Alana Goodman
August 11, 2021

A former longtime Ben & Jerry’s employee said the company’s decision to boycott Israel was based on advice from a BDS activist who was expelled from Israel for spearheading economic pressure campaigns against the Jewish state. Susannah Levin, who spent 21 years as a freelance graphic designer for Ben & Jerry’s before resigning last month over the company’s decision to halt its sales in the West Bank, said the company’s board consulted with Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine director Omar Shakir, an advocate of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement who accused the Jewish state of “crimes against humanity.” READ MORE

JNS Ex-Ben & Jerry’s employee says company spoke to anti-Israel activist pre-boycott Omar Shakir, who has been accused of anti-Semitism and ties with terrorism, penned a report in April that accused Israel of committing “crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”