Ben & Jerry’s defense is hard to swallow

Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield’s self-righteous defense of boycotting disputed territories in Israel fails to put their namesake ice cream company’s actions in a proper context. Both Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and its corporate owner, Unilever, continue to sell their products in many of the most repressive countries in the world — countries that murder dissidents, imprison journalists, enslave women, exploit children and occupy other people’s land.