Learning a Lesson from Ben & Jerry

So even if Ben & Jerry’s follows through on its proposed boycott, and stops selling its brand in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) at the end of 2022, Yesha’s estimated 475,000 Jews will endure and maybe even trim down a bit. And if they just can’t make it through dinner without a fix of dulce de leche — a craving I certainly relate to — they can drive west of the Green Line to the nearest supermarket, which still gets Ben and Jerry’s corporate hechsher, and buy it there.

There are workarounds. The real scoop is that the Jews of Judea and Samaria absorbed a much bigger defeat last week when the Knesset voted 64-50 against applying Israeli sovereignty to the lands Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War.

The opposition, headed by the Likud, brought the measure to a vote to embarrass Prime Minister Bennett and other right-wing defectors to his government, who adhered to coalition discipline and voted against sovereignty, despite their lifelong support of the settlement movement.

But it’s the opposition, mainly Binyamin Netanyahu, who ought to hang their heads in shame. The former prime minister bungled a golden opportunity to bring sovereignty to a vote last year, under the supportive watch of then-president Trump.