Ben Cohen, co-founder and former co-owner of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is a left-wing lunatic. In particular, he is a devoted fan of Hamas’s regime of rape, torture and murder. A loathsome human being, in other words.
Now that he is out of the ice cream business, Cohen has nothing better to do than show up at Congressional committee hearings and try to disrupt them. Today, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy was testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, on the HHS budget. His testimony was interrupted by several protesters whose screaming was incoherent, and who may have been advocating for more than one bad cause. It is nice to see the enthusiasm and dispatch with which the capitol police evicted them from the hearing room:
How to kill a business in less than 1 minute.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was just dragged out of RFK Jr.’s HHS budget hearing—protesting from the front row before being removed by security.pic.twitter.com/x0rNalaeuN
— Tim Sharp 🍊 🍊 🇺🇸 (@realtimsharp) May 14, 2025
It was hard to tell, at the time, what Cohen’s point was, but he explained on Twitter:
I told Congress they’re killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they’re paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities’ response. pic.twitter.com/uOf7xrzzWM
— Ben Cohen (@YoBenCohen) May 14, 2025
One could describe Cohen’s reasoning as pitifully stupid. Tying Gaza to Medicaid is, as they say in the business, a non sequitur. And poor children are not being “kicked off Medicaid,” the latest left-wing myth. It’s like saying that poor kids were being kicked off the Feeding Our Future program. No: what is happening is a long-overdue crackdown on Medicaid fraud by the Democrats and their clients.
You should never, under any circumstances, buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. It is owned by Unilever now, and that company has tried to distance itself from Ben and Jerry’s political lunacy. But Unilever needs to understand that the brand is as dead as a doornail, due to the evils perpetrated by its founders and namesakes.
