Ben & Jerry’s board members on Monday called for parent company Unilever PLC to be prevented from transferring the ice cream maker’s assets to a local licensee in Israel, saying the brand’s products could be used to oppose social issues that it supports.

Lawyers representing Ben & Jerry’s independent board members made the comments in a court hearing about their request last month to block Unilever’s sale of the brand’s Israel operations—an unusual case of a brand taking on its corporate owner.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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