a serving of politics with your ice
cream
even if you don't want it the founders
of ben and jerry's defending their
decision
not to sell ice cream in israeli
settlements calling themselves
men of principle in a new york times
op-ed
but now the owner of a ben jerry's in
new york city says
guess what that ban is slowing sales and
hurting the overall
value of his store here now sean duffy
former wisconsin
congressman and fox business contributor
you know what sean
it doesn't see it seems that whatever
issue is out there defund the police
whatever it is ben
jerry's just has to stick their aura in
when really they should just stick to
selling ice cream right
yeah this is one of the most progressive
companies that i know in america they've
been involved in politics
left wing politics they they were woke
before it was cool to be woke up
burlington vermont company
um so as a consumer i never eat ben and
jerry's ashley i vote with my dollar i
don't like their politics so i don't eat
their ice cream
uh but here i mean i feel bad because
here you know the statements by the
corporation
are affecting the franchisees that sell
ben and jerry's ice cream they're small
business owners right but
if uh if you come in and say hey we're
going to support the franchisees
actually there's a profit that goes to
the corporation and you're supporting
their movement
to uh to uh not sell ice cream in
in israel so it's a i think it's a real
issue and i think consumers
uh have to make a choice for themselves
can i make another point that that
concerns me about this ashley
yeah there's been a left-wing set of
policies this this bds movement boycott
divest and sanction
israel that's where this is coming from
the left-wing
side of the democrat party want to
sanction israel to get businesses to
stop doing
business in israel and this is part of
that left-wing movement that ben and
jerry's is playing to
uh and i think what's going to happen is
again you have this anti-semitism
in in the in the democratic party and
you have this anti-israel movement in
the democrat party
at one point democrats going to try to
blame republicans for these policies
just like they try to blame republicans
for uh trying to defund the police they
always should have played republicans
but these are their issues that is their
game play it was just reading about the
border they continue to blame the trump
administration for what's happening at
the border it's laughable
um at some point you know unilever
actually owns ben and jerry's but what's
interesting the big food consortium
the british one and they're getting an
earful from the israelis i mean it's
interesting to see how this will play
out
um but ultimately they're being accused
of cooperating with economic terrorism
and the names that they're associating
with hamas and others
these are terror groups so at some point
i guess my question to you sean is
when do they cross the line are they
getting close to it
listen i don't i don't think there's any
line on the left
wing side of the democrat party so
they're not going to cross it but for
unilever
take some control of your subsidiaries
right take control of ben and jerry's
and and pull them back um listen if
you're if you're about profit you're
about making revenue for your investors
and you know siding with blm or you know
going against israel
all that does is send your customers to
a different ice cream store
it's about selling ice cream and you
want to sell ice cream to everybody
under the hot sun left right independent
black white
christian muslim jewish it doesn't
matter ashley
and this doesn't make any any sense as a
business but they care more about
politics actually than they do about the
bottom line
but when i say a line does there come a
point where they
just go too far and people like yourself
are just not going to give their money
to them anymore what i well i'm already
there i've been there for
probably a decade with ben and jerry's
but i'm one of these guys who go
i'm going to vote with my dollar and it
doesn't do much but yeah i push back on
coke i push back on disney
um and i push back on ben and jerry's um
i haven't pushed back on apple or
amazon yet but i have with netflix
actually so i'm voting with my dollar
to voice my political opinion well it
makes sense and if enough people
do it then it does have an impact all
right sean thank you so much for joining
us
really appreciate it great stuff as
always