Jewish co-founders of Ben & Jerry s say they unequivocally support the company s decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank to boycott Israeli settlements
Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield co-founded the ice cream chain in 1978 and sold it to the British conglomerate Unilever in 2000
They praised the actions of the company they founded in an article on Wednesday for The New York Times
The op-ed comes after Axios reported that the Israeli government formed a special task force to pressure the ice cream chain into reversing its decision
The boycott has also prompted backlash from members of the Jewish community