I am always eager for Patrick's point-of-view on developments such as these. But I feel there are things he has overlooked.
The timing of B&J's actions - seemed startingly-poor. The Pegasus spyware debacle was a few mere days old and B&J's "sell-cott" seemed to divert attention from this all-to-serious matter. The stink surrounding the relationship between the Israeli state and the NSO Group was of sufficient intensity that even the American MSM was forced to pay it some token attention. I much would have preferred for the Israeli state to have marinated in this stewage for a while longer - but lo and behold *this* rather more trivial matter surfaced - and all seemed to be forgotten.
B&J scarcely have done the Israeli state a greater favor in the USA.
So what *is* going on here?
Here are my thoughts.
In the early-00s I worked for a large US systems integration company We hired one of the B&J founders to speak at around a dozen events at our US corporate offices. In retrospect, we were at the vanguard of "corporate wokeness" before such a term existed.
At the time of these speaking engagements, our company was very much making the news for our "business process outsourcing" offering - which was shipping US jobs to Bangalore, Manila, and lots of other places where the hourly wage couldn't buy you a pack of bubble gum. I'm dead certain the B&J founder was quite familiar with our "modus operandi" in the marketplace - and this troubled him not the least. If he had any objections to our neoliberal mindset - he was shy about voicing them.
So my take is this:
I think there is a relatively-large chance that - facing public outcry in the USA and Israel - Unilever will divest themselves of the B&J operation. The founders will then re-purchase the operation at the proverbial "pennies on the dollar". The B&J brand - has never had appeal to conservatives - so their action will leave their US market intact. And might help it, at least.
The Zionist just overplay their hand across the board - on the small side, they blow out of proportion ice cream boycott bringing attention to their hypocrisy, on the big side they want to control US government in full, we can just watch how each successive administration has more and more of them - currently is stands at 30% or so of cabinet level positions.
Thank you -- apartheid is repulsive. On BDS:
- Trump and GOP are HORRIBLE.
- DNC oligarchs (Biden, Pelosi, Schumer) are even WORSE (censorship, Russia-gate hoax, torture of Julian Assange)
The ONLY solution – vote THIRD party – now and forever.
ALWAYS vote – but for a Third party – at ALL levels, especially at LOCAL levels (vote OUT each and every incumbent).
I am always eager for Patrick's point-of-view on developments such as these. But I feel there are things he has overlooked.
The timing of B&J's actions - seemed startingly-poor. The Pegasus spyware debacle was a few mere days old and B&J's "sell-cott" seemed to divert attention from this all-to-serious matter. The stink surrounding the relationship between the Israeli state and the NSO Group was of sufficient intensity that even the American MSM was forced to pay it some token attention. I much would have preferred for the Israeli state to have marinated in this stewage for a while longer - but lo and behold *this* rather more trivial matter surfaced - and all seemed to be forgotten.
B&J scarcely have done the Israeli state a greater favor in the USA.
So what *is* going on here?
Here are my thoughts.
In the early-00s I worked for a large US systems integration company We hired one of the B&J founders to speak at around a dozen events at our US corporate offices. In retrospect, we were at the vanguard of "corporate wokeness" before such a term existed.
At the time of these speaking engagements, our company was very much making the news for our "business process outsourcing" offering - which was shipping US jobs to Bangalore, Manila, and lots of other places where the hourly wage couldn't buy you a pack of bubble gum. I'm dead certain the B&J founder was quite familiar with our "modus operandi" in the marketplace - and this troubled him not the least. If he had any objections to our neoliberal mindset - he was shy about voicing them.
So my take is this:
I think there is a relatively-large chance that - facing public outcry in the USA and Israel - Unilever will divest themselves of the B&J operation. The founders will then re-purchase the operation at the proverbial "pennies on the dollar". The B&J brand - has never had appeal to conservatives - so their action will leave their US market intact. And might help it, at least.
The Zionist just overplay their hand across the board - on the small side, they blow out of proportion ice cream boycott bringing attention to their hypocrisy, on the big side they want to control US government in full, we can just watch how each successive administration has more and more of them - currently is stands at 30% or so of cabinet level positions.