{"id":93909,"date":"2022-03-24T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=93909"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:06:17","slug":"24-05-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=93909","title":{"rendered":"Ben & Jerry\u2019s Distributor in Israel Seeks Court-Ordered Injunction Against Unilever"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Ben & Jerry\u2019s Distributor in Israel Seeks Court-Ordered Injunction Against Unilever<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice-cream delivery truck is seen at their factory in Be\u2019er Tuvia, Israel July 20, 2021. REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The manufacturer and distributor of Ben & Jerry\u2019s in Israel are asking for an immediate court-ordered preliminary injunction to prevent the British conglomerate Unilever and its subsidiary, Ben & Jerry\u2019s, from terminating their licensing agreement with the Israeli company until its claims against the companies regarding their boycott of Israel are resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avi Zinger and his company, American Quality Products Ltd. (AQP), filed a new formal motion with the US District Court of New Jersey. They are asking the court to make sure that Unilever maintains its contract with AQP while the court case involving all parties moves forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in March, Zinger and AQP\u00a0sued<\/a>\u00a0Ben & Jerry\u2019s and Unilever for unlawfully terminating their 34-year business relationship with AQP in order to boycott those living in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, areas the ice cream-maker called \u201cOccupied Palestinian Territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit urged the US District Court of New Jersey to declare Unilever\u2019s termination of their business agreement illegal, which would allow AQP to continue selling Ben & Jerry\u2019s products throughout Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

AQP stated in the lawsuit that its sales have declined exponentially since Ben & Jerry\u2019s\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0their anti-Israel boycott plans last July.<\/span><\/p>\n

Competitors are also trying to snatch AQP contractors and employees, and pressure stores to give up freezer space reserved for the Israeli company.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this new court filing, Zinger argues that Unilever\u2019s unlawful actions, specifically its decision to not renew its license agreement with AQP when it expires in December, is causing AQP \u201cirreparable harm.\u201d AQP said it faces \u201cimmediate irreparable injury\u201d and will be put \u201cunder imminent threat of \u2026 total destruction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

AQP said it has experienced attacks on its equipment and is unable to plan for the coming season, commit to long-term contracts, hire managerial staff and secure raw materials due to its uncertain future with Unilever and Ben & Jerry\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the court grants AQP\u2019s request to issue an immediate preliminary injunction it would allow the company to continue manufacturing and distributing Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice-cream across Israel. Unilever must respond by March 21; the court is scheduled to hear an oral argument on the motion on April 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ben & Jerry\u2019s Distributor in Israel Seeks Court-Ordered Injunction Against Unilever JNS.org A Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice-cream delivery truck is seen at their factory in Be\u2019er Tuvia, Israel July 20, 2021. REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun The manufacturer and distributor of Ben & Jerry\u2019s in Israel are asking for an immediate court-ordered preliminary injunction to prevent the British […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93924,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93909\/revisions\/93924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}