GOP senators on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee have demanded answers on whether the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s has violated SEC rules in its Israel boycott.
In a December letter obtained exclusively by FOX Business to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, Republican Sens. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, John Kennedy, of Louisiana, and Tim Scott, of South Carolina, called for an investigation into statements made by Unilever following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in July 2021.
"There is strong reason to believe that these July 19 statements were knowingly and recklessly false," the GOP senators wrote, referencing an Israeli law that prohibits targeted boycotts based on location. Ice cream moves along the production line at Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, in Waterbury, Vermont.
"It is a reasonable assumption that these statements were orchestrated by Unilever and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, to deceive shareholders and avoid violating state anti-BDS laws that would trigger mandatory divestment of the companies by state public pension funds," the senators argued in their letter.
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