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Ben Cohen arrested among seven people after interrupting the testimony of the US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The co -founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and six other people were arrested after they disrupted a hearing from the US Senate to protest Washington’s support for the Israel’s war in Gaza.
The arrests on Wednesday came when US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified to the legislator about his filling up of federal health agencies.
“The congress kills poor children in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by starting children in the USA of Medicaid,” said Cohen when he was accompanied by the police.
The seven were arrested due to “displacement, disability or inculose”, attack on a police officer or against the arrest, said the US Capitol police in a statement.
According to Capitol Police, Cohen was charged only for procedures, disability and inculose.
Cohen and the co -founder of Ben & Jerry, Jerry Greenfield, are known for their advanced activism, including the opposition to the actions of Israel in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank.
In an interview with the former moderator of Fox News, Tucker Carlson at the beginning of this month, said Cohen, who was Jewish, said the United States had a “strange relationship” with Israel, where Washington “weapons for her genocide” was provided.
“At the moment it means to be American that we are the largest arms exporter in the world, we have the largest military in the world, we support the slaughter of people in Gaza,” said Cohen.
“If someone protests against the slaughter of people in Gaza, we arrest them. What does our country stand for?”
In 2021, Ben & Jerry announced that it would no longer allow his Israeli licensee to sell his ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza, and that this “is not correct with our values”.
The following year, a US judge rejected Ben & Jerry’s offer for an injunction to block sales after he had found that the company had not proven that it would suffer irreparable damage.
Ben & Jerry’s, which was founded in 1978 in the US state of Vermont and his parent company Unilever, later resolved her legal dispute on conditions.
In March, Ben & Jerry submitted a lawsuit in which Unilever was accused of releasing the managing director David Stever for his support for the “social mission” of the brand.
More than 51,000 people were killed in Gaza since Israel started his war after October 7, 2023 in Hamas, attacks on the country.