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Star Game from Atlanta to 
Denver.
The answer to these que-
ries was stunned silence 
followed by a nervous laugh. 
As Axios reported: “I don’t 
know,” Cohen said with a 
laugh. “It’s an interesting 
question. I don’t know what 
that would accomplish. We’re 
working on those issues, of 
voting rights … I think you 
ask a really good question. 
And I think I’d have to sit 
down and think about it for 
a bit.”
When he was pressed 
about Texas and the new 
abortion laws, he replied “by 
that reasoning, we should not 
sell any ice cream anywhere. 
I’ve got issues with what’s 
being done in almost every 
state and country.”
Of course, Ben & Jerry’s 
isn’t going to stop selling 
its products in Texas and 
Georgia. Virtue-signaling 
their support for environ-
mentalism and other fash-
ionable leftist causes has 
proven profitable for their 
company. They’re not going 
to endanger their bottom line 
by pulling out of areas where 
they make big money.
It’s no accident that Israel 
is the country that is always 
singled out by so-called 
human-rights advocates 
for its alleged crimes even 
though other nations, which 
are actually tyrannies, get 
ignored. Israel is the only 
nation in the world that 
has spawned a worldwide 
movement that aims at its 
destruction. Only Jews and 
Jewish rights are treated in 
this manner, which is to say 
that BDS, in whatever form 
it takes, is, like anti-Zionism 
itself — inherently antise-
mitic. And the fact that 
some Jews, like Cohen and 

Greenfield, or groups with 
Jewish names like Jewish 
Voice for Peace, which pro-
motes antisemitic blood 
libels, support it doesn’t give 
them a pass for a movement 
that targets their own people 
for hate and discrimination.
That’s why laws being 
pushed in states all around 
the country to punish those 
companies that engage in 
discriminatory commercial 
conduct against Israel and 
Jews are not only not a vio-
lation of free speech but des-
perately needed.
In much of the mainstream 
media and polite liberal soci-
ety, BDS is still treated like a 
legitimate protest rather than 
antisemitism. The growing 
acceptance of critical race 
theory and intersectionality 
is part of the reason for this 
since those toxic ideas provide 
a permission slip to antisemi-
tism so long as it is cloaked in 
the rhetoric of the left.
But the actions of people 
like Rooney and Ben & Jerry’s 
rip the veil from this subter-
fuge. Those who think that 
only Israel’s efforts to defend 
itself against the Palestinian 
war on its existence or to 
assert Jewish rights are the 
most intolerable acts happen-
ing anywhere on the planet 
mustn’t be allowed to pose as 
do-gooders. 
Whether actively or pas-
sively, they are complicit 
in a hate campaign with 
an antisemitic goal that 
essentially justifies terrorist 
violence. Those who engage 
in such despicable behavior 
deserve the same opprobri-
um and boycotts that they 
would use against Israel and 
the Jews. 

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of 

JNS — Jewish News Syndicate. Follow 

him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

Bring
Danny Home!

The Detroit Jewish News 
urges the community to 
continue raising awareness 
for Huntington Woods native 
Danny Fenster — a journalist 
who has been unjustly held 
without cause and without 
specified charges for
151 days

by a military regime in 
a gruesome prison in 
Myanmar (Burma).

The family is looking for people 
to create portraits of Danny that 
can be shared on social media at 
https://bringdannyhome.com/pages/gallery.

You can also support Danny at: 
BringDannyHome.com 
fenster-verse.tumblr.com 
facebook.com/groups/1164768597279223.

Journalist Danny Fenster in Yangon, Myanmar, prior to 
his imprisonment.

