It sounded frightening.
The Israeli president thundered it’s “a new kind of terrorism.” The prime minister threatened “strong action.” The Israeli ambassador demanded that state governments in the United States bring the perpetrators to court.
This wasn’t about a missile strike or a cyberattack. It was about ice cream.
Ben & Jerry’s had announced that it would be ending production and sale of their treats in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel’s response was extreme maybe, but not really surprising.
This same Israeli government defines the global civil society boycott a nonviolent pressure campaign to stop Israel’s violations of international law and human rights as an existential threat. Apparently even when it’s about ice cream.
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A Palestinian Bedouin school boy walks in the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on September 16, 2018. (Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/APA Images)
I first met Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, the Israeli peace and anti-apartheid activist, on a sunny spring Sunday in Jerusalem almost exactly seventeen years ago, in 2004. It was at the end of the second Intifada, and a few of us clambered into a van so that she and a colleague could give us a tour of what it was like to be a Palestinian living in the Occupied Territories. It was revelatory. We’ve remained friends ever since
Angela’s the director of Jahalin Solidarity, a non-profit dedicated to ending the forcible displacement of Palestinians and defending their rights, including self-determination and an end to the Israeli occupation of their land.