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Ethics Group Asks New York to Divest From Ben & Jerry’s Parent Unilever
NLPC is asking New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to divest the state’s retirement funds from Unilever, parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, which has ended ice cream sales in Israel’s “occupied territories.” The request comes in the wake of New Jersey’s...
States Invested in Ben & Jerry’s: Another One Bites the Dust
Following Arizona's move last week to divest from Unilever --- the parent company of the anti-Semitic Ben & Jerry's --- a blue, but heavily Jewish, state has made the same decision. New Jersey's Division of Investment announced on Tuesday that it also would divest...
Facebook Censorship Limited to the Internet Underclass
You probably saw all the photos of the weekend's Met Gala, in which the elites attending the event showed their beautiful faces while the workers serving them were forced to wear masks. Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported another similar two-tiered...
Arizona State Treasurer Announces Divestment of all State Funds from Ben & Jerry’s
Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced on Tuesday that Arizona “will not allow taxpayer dollars to go towards anti-Semitic, discriminatory efforts against Israel,” thereby divesting nearly $140 million invested in Unilever --- the parent company of Ben &...
Funds Emerge as Alternatives to Investing in ‘Woke’ Corporations
James Varney at the Washington Times reported last week that, in response to recent increased attention to corporations' focus on "environmental, social and corporate" governance that focuses on "stakeholders," alternatives have been created that remember a company's...
NLPC Files Complaint Against Chair of the Board of Directors of Ben and Jerry’s
Isabel Vincent wrote a piece over the weekend covering the complaint we filed with the IRS against the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation and Executive Anuradha Mittal. What we uncovered in our research was documented evidence in official organization 990’s showing large...
Top Watchdog: Unilever Should Part Ways With Ben & Jerry’s
David Ridenour, President of the National Center for Public Policy Research and a friend of NLPC, has written a commentary for The Daily Signal that argues for British mega-corporation Unilever to unload its problematic, anti-Semitic subsidiary Ben & Jerry's. We...
Sen. Rick Scott: Ben & Jerry’s Israel Boycott Could Be Illegal
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida sent a letter this week to Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo, asking her to investigate the move by Ben & Jerry's to halt sales of its products in the "West Bank" and East Jerusalem areas of Israel as part of the Boycott, Divestment...
Ben & Jerry’s Had Anti-Semite Address Board Before Israel Boycott Decision
A graphic designer who did work for Ben & Jerry's for 21 years, before quitting last month over the company's decision to stop sales of its products in the "West Bank" and East Jerusalem sectors of Israel, told an Israeli news outlet that an anti-Semitic advocate...
SEC Approves Nasdaq ‘Diversity’ Rule Over NLPC Objections
NLPC blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s for its approval on Friday, August 6, of the so-called “board diversity rule” by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq --- CEO Adena Friedman is pictured). That rule...
NBA Basketballs Made in China; Are They Manufactured with Slave Labor?
After a couple years of criticism about its subservience to China to access its fanbase and manufacturing --- while taking a public relations beating in the United States for its social justice warriorship that has been reflected in poor television viewership --- the...
Ben & Jerry’s Chairwoman May Have Been Self-Dealing to Her Nonprofit
NLPC's investigation into Ben & Jerry's, its charitable foundation, and the anti-Israel think tank it funds continued yesterday with a report from the Washington Free Beacon's Alana Goodman about Anuradha Mittal's critical role with all three entities. Mittal...
Does Ben & Jerry’s Chairwoman Have a Conflict of Interest with Her Anti-Semitic Think Tank?
Isabel Vincent of the New York Post over the weekend chronicled the roots, rise and political activism of Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. The pair are renowned for donating their profits to progressive causes. They no longer control the...
Anti-Israel Ben & Jerry’s is Led by a Pro-Hamas Anti-Semite
Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company that has come under fire for far-left politics which most recently include a boycott of sales of their products in the "West Bank" and East Jerusalem sectors of Israel, is (unsurprisingly) led by a far-left anti-Semite. Most of...
Victor Davis Hanson on Patrisse Cullors: ‘Why Are They Woke?’
Hoover Institution scholar and Fox News contributor Victor Davis Hanson this week pondered how and why so many public figures — mainly on the political left — are caught in hypocrisy as they project sins and prejudices upon others that they themselves are guilty of....
NLPC Files Complaints Against Group Headed by Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on Friday filed Complaints with the Internal Revenue Service and the California Attorney General against a nonprofit called Dignity and Power Now, founded by Patrisse Cullors, who is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. NLPC...
Michael Brown’s Father Joins in Criticism of Black Lives Matter Finances
Local chapters of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation are training their fire on the national organization, after it was revealed that recently departed co-founder Patrisse Cullorspurchased million-dollar properties in white neighborhoods, raising...
Congressmen Ask Zuckerberg for Records Because Facebook Acts Like the Government
Following last week’s release of the revealing emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, which included mutual admiration correspondence he had with FacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg, the top two Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee want copies of...
ESG, Larry Fink, and Other Peoples’ Money
This op-ed by NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty appears today on Real Clear Markets: Last week, Exxon Mobil, one of the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas companies, lost a critical board fight with Engine No.1, a “woke” small investor group. The win...
Is Facebook an Arm of the Government and Therefore Subject to the First Amendment?
With the explosion of revelations from the release of the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectiousness Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, it has been discovered that Facebook is censoring users’ posts of...
Kamenar: ‘Follow the Money’ on Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors
Paul Kamenar, Counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, is interviewed by John Hines on One America News Network. They discuss the resignation of Patrisse Cullors from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Cullors' finances, including the ownership...
