(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, 20 JUL - Ben & Jerry's, the historic American ice cream brand, has entered a collision course with the Israeli government after announcing that, "in accordance with its progressive and egalitarian values", it will no longer sell in a year and a half. its products in the "occupied Palestinian territories". Forcing thousands of Israelis residing in West Bank settlements to run out of their own bowls of ice cream. Maps in hand, at least for B & J's, they physically live outside the borders of Israel. Instead, the company will maintain the regular distribution of its ice creams within the so-called "1967 Israeli borders".
The reaction of Naftali Bennett's government was immediate and hard: "A moral error" he exclaimed after hearing the news. "An episode of anti-Semitism", said foreign minister Yair Lapid. (HANDLE).