Ben & Jerry’s canceled a contract with an Israeli mineral water company in the Golan Heights for supplying the water for its sherbet. The move by the American ice cream manufacturer came after pressure from several U.S.-based groups. The Zionist Organization of America condemned the decision, which it called “endorsing the historical revisionism of Arab propagandists.”
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