Ben & & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen stated Tuesday that moms and dad business Unilever avoided the ice cream maker from producing a “taste for Palestine.”
Cohen and the Vermont-based ice-cream maker are understood for social advocacy, frequently supporting Palestinians and slamming Israel.
” Unilever/ Magnum stopped Ben & & Jerry’s from producing a taste for Palestine– so I’m doing it myself,” Cohen composed on X, describing Magnum Ice Cream, Unilever’s ice cream system.
” I have actually got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I require your assistance: Call the taste or recommend active ingredients. Or develop the pint product packaging,” he continued.
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Watermelons have actually ended up being a sign of Palestinian uniformity due to the fact that their red, green, black and white colors match the the Palestinian flag.
” Here I am making something that’s really quite crucial. The scale of suffering of the Palestinian individuals over the last 2 years has actually been unthinkable. So the ceasefire is a welcome relief, however there’s far more work to do to restore. Palestinians are still living under profession, still recuperating from years of suffering, specifically Palestinian kids,” Cohen stated in a video published to X.
” They should have self-respect, security, and the exact same rights that every person ought to have,” he continued. “A while back, Ben & & Jerry’s attempted to make a taste to require peace in Palestine, to represent justice and self-respect for everybody, like Ben & & Jerry’s constantly has. However they weren’t permitted to, they were come by Unilever/Magnum, the business that owns Ben and Jerry’s. Similar to when Ben & & Jerry’s attempted to stop offering ice cream in the occupied areas, they were obstructed once again by their moms and dad business. So I’m doing what they could not.”
Cohen stated he is now making a watermelon-flavored ice cream that “require irreversible peace in Palestine and requires fixing all the damage that was done there.”
” I’m doing this to shine a light on the experience of Palestinian individuals, and kids in specific, so the world does not look the other method,” he stated.
Fox Organization has actually connected to Unilever for remark.
In Might, Cohen was gotten rid of from a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing with Health and Person Solutions Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for opposing versus the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
” Congress spends for bombs,” Cohen screamed at the time.
” I informed Congress they’re eliminating bad kids in Gaza by purchasing bombs, and they’re spending for it by kicking bad kids off Medicaid in the United States,” Cohen included at the time on X.
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Ben & & Jerry’s co-founder, Jerry Greenfield, just recently revealed he is leaving the business after 47 years, stating Unilever had actually “silenced” the ice cream maker on social concerns.
Cohen stated after Greenfield’s statement that “his tradition is worthy of to be real to our worths, not silenced.”
Previously this year, Ben & & Jerry’s likewise declared that Unilever unlawfully fired CEO David Stever over his social advocacy, breaching its merger contract.
Source: Fox News.
