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The Ben & Jerry’s Boycott: Why It’s Such an Ominous Sign for Israel

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The news of the Ben & Jerry’s boycott last week spread around the world. The company announced it would stop selling its ice cream to what they call the OPT, Occupied Palestinian Territory. While the world refers to that area as the West Bank, Bible-believing Jews and Christians call this land Judea and Samaria, Israel’s Biblical heartland. 

It has a 4,000-year history going back to the time of Abraham. To some, it may seem innocuous but according to Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the boycott is an ominous sign of things that could follow for Israel and the Jewish people. CBN News interviewed Rabbi Adlerstein in our Jerusalem studio about the boycott and what Christians can do in the face of this latest assault on the legitimacy of the Jewish state. 

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Chris Mitchell
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Mitchell

In a time where the world's attention is riveted on events in the Middle East, CBN viewers have come to appreciate Chris Mitchell's timely reports from this explosive region of the world. Chris brings a Biblical and prophetic perspective to these daily news events that shape our world. He first began reporting on the Middle East in the mid-1990s. Chris repeatedly traveled there to report on the religious and political issues facing Israel and the surrounding Arab states. One of his more significant reports focused on the emigration of persecuted Christians from the Middle East. In the past