Cohen and his Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield are well known for their progressive activism, including opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza and policies in the occupied West Bank. In an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this month, Cohen, who is Jewish, said the US had a “strange relationship” with Israel that involved Washington “supplying weapons for its genocide”. “Right now, what it means to be American is that we are the world’s largest arms exporter, we have the largest military in the world, we support the slaughter of people in Gaza,” Cohen said. “If somebody protests the slaughter of people in Gaza, we arrest them. What does our country stand for?” Ben & Jerry’s leadership has been critical of the Israeli occupation over the years. In 2021, the company said it would stop selling its ice cream in the occupied territories. “We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company said in a statement at the time.Ben from Ben & Jerry’s confronts RFK Jr. and Congress:
— CODEPINK (@codepink) May 14, 2025
“YOU’RE KILLING POOR KIDS IN GAZA
AND PAYING FOR IT BY CUTTING MEDICAID
FOR KIDS HERE.”
While Congress writes checks for bombs, children are starving. pic.twitter.com/C6is7zQ8UZ
