General Mills Avoids Anti-BDS Backlash for Pulling Out of Settlements (Jewish Currents)
“Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (and a Jewish Currents contributing writer), said that anti-BDS advocates, including supporters of anti-BDS legislation, are clearly concerned when companies take an explicit political position. ‘They care about the political implications of a statement that says, ‘We have a disagreement with Israel and its politics in the West Bank,’ she said. Often, Friedman noted, companies attempt to boycott only the occupied territories while continuing their operations in the rest of Israel, but anti-BDS campaigners seem to find that especially enraging. ‘The act of making a distinction is what pisses people off,’ she said. Airbnb, for example, was forced to reverse its policy of not listing rentals in the settlements in 2019 after facing global backlash.”