Tundra Tabloids reports on an anti-Israel protest in Finland – against ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s:
I was at the World Village Festival (in Helsinki):
Today I was at the world village Festival and here I have taken a very important picture, and I will tell you a little about the background: Syksy Räsänen had today illegally entered the festival area to demonstrate against Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream kiosk with anti-Israel picket signs and flyers. The idea is that Ben & Jerry’s is one of incarnations of Israel’s so called “apartheid”.
I watched the situation as two security guards chatting with each other decided that, it’s not what we are going to interfere with if there is no directive from the organizers of the event.
Then a couple of KEPA staff (KEPA is the organizer of the event, a service base for nongovernmental organizations in Finland) and I went to them saying: Sorry, but is that demonstration legal? I myself am a journalist and I wonder whether the Kepa really gave permission for it. This kind of demonstration, which I think is very childish, demonstrates an exceptionally Bad taste.
The staff members said, no no, it’s not legal. I asked: So what do you intend to do about it? That is why this cannot be allowed to continue. The two seemed to be bothered, contacted the organizers and convinced them that this issue should be handled straight away.
The demonstration is broken up immediately.
Besides being illegal, the demonstration was illogical, assuming the organizers are really “only” anti-Israel.
You see, Ben & Jerry’s have a history of anti-Israel activity. For example:
Under a hail of protest from anti-settler groups, the ice cream manufacturer’s Israeli franchise canceled a contract last month to purchase water from Mei Eden, a mineral water company based in the Golan Heights, to make sorbet.
But some Jewish organizations consider the move to break the contract — and endorse calls for boycotting certain Israeli products — a slap in the face of the peace process.
The president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, said Jewish entrepreneurs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have sent a message to all Jewish businesses to boycott Israel.
And in 2014, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation donated $2,500 to the vehemently anti-Israel, pro-BDS Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
So you either believe they are protesting Ben & Jerry’s because they manufacture ice cream in Israel….or something else is going on here.
Of course, they may just be dumbasses. We’ve seen evidence of this before.
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