Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Arrested at Senate Protest Over Gaza

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was arrested on Wednesday after disrupting a Senate hearing to protest US military aid to Israel and humanitarian conditions in Gaza, according to the US Capitol Police.

Cohen was removed from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, where Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was testifying.

“You’re killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here,” Cohen shouted from the public gallery before being escorted out by police with his hands tied behind his back. “Let food into ...