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There is no slight against Israel too insignificant for the Israel lobby. When it identifies such an affront, it marshals all its forces as if the very sky over Tel Aviv were falling. This week’s case in point is the “ice cream war” between the lobby and the global food conglomerate, Unilever. A year ago, the board of Ben & Jerry’s (B&J), a major US ice cream manufacturer, agreed to cease sales of its ice cream in Israel’s Occupied Territories. Vermont (where the company was founded) human rights activists mounted a years-long campaign informed by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) mo…