Unilever sells off Ben & Jerry’s in Israel to avoid West Bank row

The decision was one of the highest-profile rebukes by a well-known brand of Israel’s settlements. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Unilever has sold off its Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel in an attempt to extricate itself from a row over sales of the ice-cream in settlements in the West Bank.

Ben & Jerry’s independent board announced last summer that the brand would no longer sell its products in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying to do so was “inconsistent with our values”.