Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani claimed he personally urged the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank — a month before the company announced the anti-Israel boycott, according to a recently resurfaced video. Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman who supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state, recalled meeting Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield at an unrelated June 2, 2021 press conference. “I told Jerry I was disappointed in the company’s work in Israel,” Mamdani said in the video interview, posted on Facebook at the time by the Muslim...
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