Examples of Corporations Promoting or Enabling Antisemitism Today:
Unilever
A huge multinational corporation which owns over 400 brands worldwide.
Unilever brand Ben & Jerry’s announced it would cut ties with its factory in Israel after 2022, in an effort to appease extremists who oppose Israel’s existence.
The chair of Ben & Jerry’s independent board supports discriminatory boycotts against Israel, implied Israel’s existence is a “catastrophe,” and attempted to whitewash the terrorist group Hamas.
The board chair also runs a group called the Oakland institute, which encouraged support for “resistance to Israel” by the terrorist group Hezbollah. The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation has reportedly donated at least $170,000 to the Oakland Institute.
Unilever can reverse Ben & Jerry’s decision and take a strong stand against this hatred, but has refused to do so (LINK TBD).
In September, 2021, a former Unilever employee sued the company for antisemitic discrimination.
Twitter
Social media giant, which has enabled the massive spread of antisemitism online and done far too little to prevent it.
From May 7-14, 2021, there were more than 17,000 tweets using variations of the words, “Hitler was right”.
In July, 2021, a former Congresswoman posted a dangerous conspiracy theory about 9/11, claiming “Zionists did it”. Twitter refused to remove it, calling it “strong political commentary.” The tweet is still up on the site
The Campaign Against Antisemitism, a UK watchdog group, has said Twitter’s antisemitism policies are failing. They regularly report antisemitic content to Twitter, and found that only 40% was actually removed. This includes tweets like “Except Hitler was right” and, “All vaccines were created by Jews to control the population of the goyim.”
Slow Factory calls all of Israel “occupied territory” and opposes its existence. The vast majority of Jews see this as a form of antisemitism.
Slow Factory smears Israelis as “colonizers,” erasing 3,000 years of Jewish history, identity, and rights in their ancestral homeland.
During the Hamas-Israel war in May, 2021, Slow Factory posted on Instagram that, “What is happening in Palestine is not complicated…” A few months later, they reacted to the crisis in Afghanistan by posting that, “It is not possible to condense decades of conflict into a single Instagram post.” This is a classic double standard against the one Jewish state in the world.