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Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Detained for Participating in Senate Protest Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Ben Cohen, the 74-year-old co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was detained by police after interrupting a hearing of the health, education, labor and pensions committee where Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr was speaking. Cohen's interruption was in protest of military aid to Israel and humanitarian concerns in Gaza. He shouted that "Congress pays for bombs to kill children in Gaza" before being placed in handcuffs and charged with a misdemeanor offense commonly used in cases of civil disobedience.

  1. US
    Unilever
    1. 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.
  2. US
    Ben Cohen
    1. Israel is literally starving them to death. We will not look away, we will not be silenced, we will do everything we can to get our government to stop being complicit in starving little kids to death.
    2. Condoning and being complicit in the slaughter of tens of thousands of people strikes at the core of us as far as human beings and what our country stands for.
    3. They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food into starving kids.
    4. I understand that I have a higher profile than most people and so I raise my voice, it gets heard. But I need you and others to understand that I speak for millions of people who feel the same way.
    5. Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US.
    6. For me, our government-funded destruction and slaughter of families living in Gaza is an attack on justice, common decency, and what I had thought was the American way — the American way that Superman used to defend, along with Truth and Justice.
    7. I can't call myself an American and not put my body on the line.
    8. The majority of Americans hate what's going on, what our country is doing with our money and in our name.

Pro-Palestinian Movements in the Ivy League

  1. Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after Columbia calls in police
  2. US Releases Palestinian Student From Custody After Citizenship Interview Detention
  3. US Immigration Authorities Block Palestinian Activist from Attending Son's Birth

sources

  1. 1.ABC News (Australia)
  2. 2.The Guardian
  3. 3.The Times of India
  4. 4.Agence France-Presse
  5. 5.BBC
  6. 6.New York Times
  7. 7.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.US under Donald Trump
  2. 2.Israel-Palestine Conflict
  3. 3.Protests
  4. 4.Freedom of Speech
  5. 5.Antisemitism

countries

  1. 1.IsraelIL
  2. 2.Palestine, State ofPS
  3. 3.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Ben & Jerry
  2. 2.UnileverUS
  3. 3.Capitol Police
  4. 4.Democratic PartyUS
  5. 5.US Palestinian Community Network
  6. 6.American Israel Public Affairs Committee
  7. 7.HamasPS
  8. 8.Pew Research CenterUS
  9. 9.United Nations
  10. 10.US Department of Health and Human ServicesUS
  11. 11.US Senate

persons

  1. 1.Ben CohenUS
  2. 2.Robert F Kennedy JrUS
  3. 3.Bernie SandersUS
  4. 4.David Stever
  5. 5.Jerry Seinfeld
  6. 6.John F Kennedy
  7. 7.Leah Millis

technicals

  1. 1.Medicaid
  2. 2.Judaism
  3. 3.West Bank
Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Detained for Participating in Senate Protest Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict