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Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, was arrested during a protest in the US Senate over military aid to Israel and humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

Protesters disrupted the hearing on Wednesday while Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr was testifying.

Mr Cohen was charged with a misdemeanour offence, while another six demonstrators were also arrested and face a number of more serious charges, US Capitol Police told BBC News.

A video shared on social media showed Mr Cohen being escorted from the building by police with his hands tied behind his back.

"Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US," he said in a video after someone asked why he was "getting arrested".

A police spokesperson said that Mr Cohen was charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding - a misdemeanour offence often used in civil disobedience cases in the US capital.
Six other demonstrators were also arrested at the hearing and face charges including assaulting a police officer and/or resisting arrest.

Ben & Jerry's has long been known for taking a public stance on social and political issues since it was founded in 1978 by Mr Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

It has often backed campaigns on issues like LGBTQ+ rights and climate change.

Ben & Jerry's was bought by the multinational consumers goods giant Unilever in 2000.

The merger agreement between the two companies created an independent board tasked with protecting Ben & Jerry's values and mission.

But Unilever and Ben & Jerry's have been at loggerheads for a while. Their relationship soured in 2021 when Ben & Jerry's announced it was halting sales in the West Bank.

The two companies are currently locked in a legal battle.

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Unilever told BBC News: "Ben Cohen takes stances as an activist citizen on issues he finds personally important.

"These actions are on his own as an individual and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry's or Unilever."
In March, Ben & Jerry's filed a legal case accusing Unilever of sacking chief executive David Stever over disagreements over the brand's political campaigns.

At the time a Unilever spokesperson said it was "disappointed that the confidentiality of an employee career conversation has been made public".

The dispute escalated over the last year as Ben & Jerry's advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza.

 

[Soso]

Their mediocre ice cream was never worth the high price

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

You know, this makes me want to go out and get some ice cream from one of the multiple local or state brands that are superior to Ben and Jerry's in celebration. No clever Boomer-tier name though, so I guess there's that.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I scream, you scream, we all scream for rapists and carjackers!!!

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Of all the random-ass people to be arrested for protesting in the Capitol, the Ben and Jerry’s co-founder?

The founders of Ben and Jerry were always very outspoken and politically active liberals, and they use their company to promote causes, lobby congress, and fund candidates. It is actually weird they didn't get arrested sooner.

 

[Day of the Cope]

RFK Jr. watching the co-founder of a junk food company getting thrown out must have left him half-mast the rest of the testimony.

.webp

 

[Farm Hand]

Of all the random-ass people to be arrested for protesting in the Capitol, the Ben and Jerry’s co-founder?

It's actually completely unsurprising if you were aware that Ben and Jerry are a couple of the most high-profile heads in Big Corp to openly delve in Lefty activism. You can find plenty of interviews from over the years.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

By the superior anti Semitic ice cream brand.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

Oy Vey, Ben Cohen making a political statement about “stolen” land?
It truly is different when the ((right)) Jews do it.


https://kiwifarms.net/threads/indig...ck-ben-jerrys-hq-built-on-stolen-land.167590/

 

[round robin]

Well I'll be. I thought this was gonna be a different kind of crime.
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Give it time.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Leftists shocked Jews are no longer protecting them once they turned on Israel.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Leftists shocked Jews are no longer protecting them once they turned on Israel.

Leftists still keep on pushing retarded talking points and stances in general.

Makes me wonder if they were batshit already before the Jew showed up with the money.

 

[invisibult plus+]

But Unilever and Ben & Jerry's have been at loggerheads for a while. Their relationship soured in 2021 when Ben & Jerry's announced it was halting sales in the West Bank.

The two companies are currently locked in a legal battle.

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Unilever told BBC News: "Ben Cohen takes stances as an activist citizen on issues he finds personally important.

"These actions are on his own as an individual and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry's or Unilever."
In March, Ben & Jerry's filed a legal case accusing Unilever of sacking chief executive David Stever over disagreements over the brand's political campaigns.

At the time a Unilever spokesperson said it was "disappointed that the confidentiality of an employee career conversation has been made public".

The dispute escalated over the last year as Ben & Jerry's advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Unilever and Ben & Jerry's should be at loggerheads over their products. The last time I got their ice cream, it was chalky as fuck. Never buying again.

 

[thx1138]

Ice cream?

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Ben & Jerry's is mid ice cream trying to fly under the radar with goyslop toppings.

It's some of the best you can get, at the store anyway. No matter how much I hate them and won't support them with a purchase, it's just true.

 

[Retink Retunk]

So one of the guys who created diabetes in a cup is bitching about healthcare when his co-founder died of diabetes induced by the product they make?

Leftists still keep on pushing retarded talking points and stances in general.

Makes me wonder if they were batshit already before the Jew showed up with the money.

Jews are simple rope salesmen, they provide the product for a price, but it's up to you if you hang yourself with it.

 

[Vect]

Of all the random-ass people to be arrested for protesting in the Capitol, the Ben and Jerry’s co-founder?

When you're worth millions of dollars? And have a major say in business? You cannot claim to be just a harmless everyday citizen when you decide to play vanity politics as well.

Because that was the point. He is in the technical sense an everyday American citizen while paradoxically also being a Jewish multimillionaire founder of one of America's most famous commercial icons, and he was amongst those arrested protesting against America's dealings with Israel, and his activism on the issue has long been public. Nobody would have heard or cared much about this disruption if he wasn't there, partly because, as we're saying now, he has a fair amount to lose (while paradoxically being more fortunate that his co-protestors). And now the news media - and we - are flapping our mouths about it. Who he is is the point of the protest.

Vanity activism isn't seeking attention, because that does help causes, it's when the activism is publicly adopted with the expectation of few or no further commitments. This isn't vanity politics, it's bad politics, because he used this moment of extraordinary publicity to simply say the same criticism everyone has heard about Israel instead of offering a solution to ending the war. Everyone is is loudly taking sides because it's literally all you can do. These are two countries on the other side of the world who have many reasons to hate each other, are culturally and historically near total opposites and they have broken faith with each other constantly. One of them, at least as it is, will die in this war or the next one.

Their mediocre ice cream was never worth the high price

Nah, it always had more flavours (maybe it's different in the US) but it's too expensive. If you can get one of those toaster sized churners you can make better ice cream with cheap store bought ingredients.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Unilever and Ben & Jerry's should be at loggerheads over their products. The last time I got their ice cream, it was chalky as fuck. Never buying again.

I think Ben Cohen did an interview recebtly with Jimmy Dore and said he was against selling the company but the other owners outvoted him.

 

[Positron]

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US,"

Fuck all these rich Californian cunts. If they want beaner kids to get free healthcare, they should found and fund a real nonprofit hospital in Mexico. Don't demand that citizens who are barely getting by fund your retarded 10 billion debacle.

 

[Wigger Rights Advocate]

Their chocolate chip cookie ice cream is good but I'm too poor to buy it. You'd figure that since he's a man of the people he wouldn't make ice cream that costs 3 hours worth of labor in my country.