Author: John Power
Published on: 15/05/2025 | 00:00:00
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Cohen and his Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Jerry Greenfield are well known for their progressive activism. The arrests came as US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr was giving testimony to lawmakers on his shake-up of federal health agencies. “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it,” Cohen said. In 2021, Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would no longer allow its Israeli licensee to sell its ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza. A US judge rejected Ben’s bid for an injunction to block the sales after finding that the company had failed to show it would suffer irreparable harm. In March, Ben and Jerry’s accused Unilever of firing chief executive David Stever over his support for the brand’s “social mission”
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