I’m a total devotee of token gesturism, much as I love a bit of hypocrisy, get high on stupidity and as for boycotts? Love ‘em to bits. My shelves are now totally empty of clothes, food, even toilet rolls. I’ve boycotted everybody and I’m sure they’re all regretting their actions now!! Bastard fascists, imperialists, child-labour-hirers, atmosphere polluters, people who drive on the right, or left, worst of all people who drive in the middle, capitalists, neo-nazis, neo-communists, neo-liberals (possibly the worst of all), radical feminists, radical rapists, people who refuse to state their pronouns in every text message, those who ‘take the knee’, those who won’t ‘take the knee’, royalists, Roundheads, slap heads, 3-day eventists and Arsenal fans.

I set the bar quite low when it comes to supporting the oppressed. I’m on the verge of boycotting Mel just for… because… well WHY NOT???

Yet even I can’t see the point of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream banning sales in the ‘occupied territories’ of Israel. Where you can no longer buy their product. To protect?, support?, stand as one with the Palestinian people in their oppression.

Ever been to the ‘occupied West Bank’? I have. You really don’t know you’re there so seamless does it live adjacent to Israel. The people there get state education, state medical provision, it is just Israel with bumpier roads. Ok, there are ‘the settlements’ which are ‘frummer’s follies’. Ultra religious, usually Americans, who wish to live in the biblical lands. They’re daft and inflammatory places. Filled with ultra-orthodox people who will never buy Ben & Jerry’s because its not kosher enough. And if they want it they can just go to West Jerusalem and buy it. With a special rabbinical sticker on it and a massively inflated cost. So the only people who ‘suffer’ from this boycott is the Palestinians themselves. Who may really fancy a scoop of Chocolate Obscenity on a sunny Sunday and will now do without. So how does that ‘help’ them in their struggle? They still struggle, but without ice cream.

Unilever, who own Ben & Jerry’s, are taking flak over this latest ridiculous ‘boycott’. Yet as a wonderful example of token gesturism, hypocrisy and stupidity, I can only admire them. Though I’m not sure politics and ice cream mix that well.

Happy Friday

A xxxx