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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.

 

[Balr0g]

As penalty you have to force feed him their icecream with the most disgusting topping they have. Maybe one with troonshine

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

A jew supporting Palestinians is straight up Frog and Scorpion shit. Should deport him to Gaza so he could be lynched while screaming "but I'm one of the good ones!".

 

[Super-Chevy454]

A jew supporting Palestinians is straight up Frog and Scorpion shit. Should deport him to Gaza so he could be lynched while screaming "but I'm one of the good ones!".

That or he have the Stockholm syndrome.

 

[東海旅客鉄道株式会社]

Aldens ice cream is better, healthier.
Tillamook also is the same.

Both use organic and natural ingredients without any fillers or GMO. Yeah they don't have wacked out flavors like Ben an Jerry's but the people running those two companies aren't wacked out either.

Just keep that in mind.

 

[FieldPiece]

Pruno flavor coming soon.

 

[Safir]

stonetoss_burgers_except_icecream.webp

Wtf? no. Going to a protest is going to a protest. It's not an ad.

Stonetoss Burgers is an ad that sells wokism instead of the product. Burgers is not every political or culture ad, it's a narrow type of ad.

Most political ads are borderline affinity scams: "We support X. If you also support X, buy our product." This is NOT stonetoss burgers. An affinity scam is an affinity scam even if the nominal cause is very specific and the audience wasn't aware of it (saving baby shrimp in northern Madagascar), when it ties into a larger preexisting affinity topic (environmentalism):
"Here's a very specific environmentalist cause that you probably weren't aware of! It shows that we're serious and involved environmentalists, we're not just faking it to sell burgers! If you're also a serious and involved environmentalist, buy our burgers!" This is not stonetoss burgers, because it's actually trying to sell burgers (to a dedicated audience, at the risk of alienating normies).

Burgers are an ad for a lifestyle instead of ad an for a product. It's NOT "we support race mixing. If you support race mixing, buy our burgers." It's "commit race mixing, it is glamorous and sexy and high-class, mystery meat is delicious, everyone should race mix." The JaGUar ad is a good example of burgers.


Ben Cohen's pro-Palestine protesting is at worst trying to sell ice cream to pro-Palestinian wokes, but more likely it's just his genuine wokism.

 

[Spunt]

Yeah, I do have to give him some respect in that unlike most "woke" CEOs it isn't just token virtue signalling to get those sweet sweet ESGbux, but he does genuinely believe in the causes he espouses, to the point of going off to protests with all the usual crustpunk scum and getting arrested rather than getting an underling to tweet about trannies while he's off at Epstein Island.

If he only believed in less retarded causes it might even be admirable.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Wtf? no. Going to a protest is going to a protest. It's not an ad.

Stonetoss Burgers is an ad that sells wokism instead of the product. Burgers is not every political or culture ad, it's a narrow type of ad.

Most political ads are borderline affinity scams: "We support X. If you also support X, buy our product." This is NOT stonetoss burgers. An affinity scam is an affinity scam even if the nominal cause is very specific and the audience wasn't aware of it (saving baby shrimp in northern Madagascar), when it ties into a larger preexisting affinity topic (environmentalism):
"Here's a very specific environmentalist cause that you probably weren't aware of! It shows that we're serious and involved environmentalists, we're not just faking it to sell burgers! If you're also a serious and involved environmentalist, buy our burgers!" This is not stonetoss burgers, because it's actually trying to sell burgers (to a dedicated audience, at the risk of alienating normies).

Burgers are an ad for a lifestyle instead of ad an for a product. It's NOT "we support race mixing. If you support race mixing, buy our burgers." It's "commit race mixing, it is glamorous and sexy and high-class, mystery meat is delicious, everyone should race mix." The JaGUar ad is a good example of burgers.
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Ben Cohen's pro-Palestine protesting is at worst trying to sell ice cream to pro-Palestinian wokes, but more likely it's just his genuine wokism.

lol calm down

 

[Damocles_Sword]

It's hilarious that B&J's ice cream is owned by nestle light and has been for nearly 20 years and nobody I know buys it because they dont want ice cream that lectures you about how you were born wrong before you can eat it because of this faggot.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

Aldens ice cream is better, healthier.
Tillamook also is the same.

Both use organic and natural ingredients without any fillers or GMO. Yeah they don't have wacked out flavors like Ben an Jerry's but the people running those two companies aren't wacked out either.

Just keep that in mind.

Tillamook ice cream is some of the smoothest ice cream I have ever eaten.
If you want “crazier” flavors and don’t care about the ingredients, Blue Bell is my second choice. They come out with a few new flavors every year. I can buy a gallon for what I’d pay for 2 pints of Ben and Jerry’s, and most of their flavors also come in pints now.
And if you’re already willing to pay the Ben and Jerry’s price, why not go to a local ice cream place or chain and have whatever toppings you want mixed in.

The only people that I know that actually buy it buy it when it’s convenient because they want ice cream and Walgreens or the convenience stores always sell the pints.

 

[Just Want 2 Read]

The icecream Jew was having a melt down, he just needs to cool off. If they decided to shake things up and freeze his accounts, that would be the Cherry Garcia on top.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Aldens ice cream is better, healthier.
Tillamook also is the same.

Both use organic and natural ingredients without any fillers or GMO. Yeah they don't have wacked out flavors like Ben an Jerry's but the people running those two companies aren't wacked out either.

Just keep that in mind.

I love Tillamook.

 

[Super Guido]

Tillamook ice cream is some of the smoothest ice cream I have ever eaten.
If you want “crazier” flavors and don’t care about the ingredients, Blue Bell is my second choice. They come out with a few new flavors every year. I can buy a gallon for what I’d pay for 2 pints of Ben and Jerry’s, and most of their flavors also come in pints now.
And if you’re already willing to pay the Ben and Jerry’s price, why not go to a local ice cream place or chain and have whatever toppings you want mixed in.

The only people that I know that actually buy it buy it when it’s convenient because they want ice cream and Walgreens or the convenience stores always sell the pints.

Blue Bell is regional, sadly, so for a lot of people, they would need to buy a multipack online. IMO it's not reasonable to spend 78 dollars on ice cream if you haven't even tried a single flavor for the MSRP before.

Some places are lucky enough to have decent local brands, but they're not cheap. I like *shudders* Milk Jawn. Hate the name, but the earl gray honeycomb ice cream is the greatest of all time. It's 12 dollars for a pint, so I rarely get it.

 

[Aunt Carol]

At least he's putting his money where his mouth is. Probably be more helpful to his cause if he donated to things or paid other protesters' bail, but it's nice to see an older guy who believes in things.

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

Either Ben or Jerry, I forget which, medically has no sense of taste. That's why all the mix-ins: for varied mouthfeel.

source: may have dreamt it
ninja edit: here .

 

[東海旅客鉄道株式会社]

Blue Bell is my second choice.

Blue bell is horrible, it's constantly rated as some of the worst quality ice cream.
They use all kinds of artificial ingredients like corn syrup.
Stay away from that shit, it's really bad for you.

Blue Bell Vanilla

high fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial vanilla flavor, cellulose gum, vegetable gums (guar, carrageenan, carob bean), salt, annatto color.

Now compare aldens Vanilla

Milk*, Cream*, Cane Sugar*, Tapioca Syrup*, Tapioca Starch*, Vanilla Extract*, Guar Gum*, Soy Lecithin*, Ground Vanilla Beans*, Locust Bean Gum*, Xanthan Gum.

*Organic

One uses real vanilla extract and beans the other just has "vanilla flavor" whatever that means.

I love Tillamook.

I yoyo between them and aldens.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

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.

I'm going to break the Ohio code for a minute, the Cincinnati area has multiple local brands that are better, if a bit more traditional in flavors. Graeter's and Aglamesis Bros come to mind. Everyone gets caught up on our hotdog and pasta sauce "chili," but SW Ohio has a pretty solid local food culture. Especially if you like German and Bavarian dishes. The state as a whole does, but we try to keep the good parts quiet, the upstate New York and Tennessee refugees aren't too bad, but we could stand to attract less Californians and Massholes. The driving is already bad enough.

 

[Argos]

Ain't reading all that. Fuck Palestine.

 

[Snekposter]

The icecream Jew was having a melt down, he just needs to cool off. If they decided to shake things up and freeze his accounts, that would be the Cherry Garcia on top.

Its a good thing he's going to be spending some time on ice.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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.

There's an ice cream place in my area that also serves frozen custard. Good stuff. Like getting small tubs of the custard sometimes.

 

[wopirish]

Aldens ice cream is better, healthier.
Tillamook also is the same.

Both use organic and natural ingredients without any fillers or GMO. Yeah they don't have wacked out flavors like Ben an Jerry's but the people running those two companies aren't wacked out either.

Just keep that in mind.

Sweet jesus, I was looking at ice cream awhile ago and I bothered to look at the ingredients for all of them.
Horrifyingly disgusting shit in most of them. Who the fuck puts corn syrup in ice cream?

It really is just literal goy slop for 75%+ of the aisle.