Ben & Jerry’s cofounder arrested at US Senate after protesting war in Gaza | Protests News

Ben Cohen, among seven people arrested after the interruption of the testimony of the Secretary of Health of the United States, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

The co -founder of the ice cream of Ben & Jerry and six other people have been arrested after interrupting an audience of the United States Senate to protest Washington’s support for the Israel War in Gaza.

Ben Cohen’s trials and the other protesters occurred on Wednesday when the United States Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy JR, was testifying legislators about their federal health agencies.

“The Congress kills poor children in Gaza buying bombs and pays for kicking children in Medicaid in the United States,” Cohen said while the police escorted him.

The seven were arrested for “doing, obstructing or bothering” charges, assault or a police officer or resisting the trial, said the United States Capitol Police in a statement.

Police said Cohen was only accused of doing, obstructing or bothering, an evil punished for 90 days in jail, a fine of $ 500 or both.

Cohen and his co -founder of Ben & Jerry, Jerry Greenfield, are known for their progressive activism, including opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In an interview with former Fox News Tucker Carlson presenter earlier this month, Cohen, who is Jewish, said that the United States had a “strange relationship” with Israel that involved Washington “that supplied weapons for his genocide.”

“At this time, what it means to be American is that we are the world’s largest weapons exporter, we have the world’s largest army, we support the laughter of people in Gaza,” Cohen said.

“If someone protests the laugh of people in Gaza, we judge them. What does our country mean?”

In 2021, Ben & Jerry announced that he would no longer allow his Israeli licensee to sell his ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza, saying that doing so would be “inconsistent with our values.”

An American judge the following year rejected Ben & Jerry’s offer for a court order to block sales after finding that the company had not shown that it suffered irreparable damage.

Ben & Jerry’s, which was founded in 1978 in the United States Vermont state, and its parent company, Unilever, then resolved its legal dispute in unleashed terms.

In March, Ben & Jerry filed a lawsuit accusing Unilever to say goodbye to executive director David Stever about his support for the “social mission” of the brand.

More than 51,000 people have died to Bone in Gaza since Israel launched its war, after the attacks of the country on October 7, 2023 of Hamas.