Ben Cohen, co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested at a Senate hearing on Wednesday for confronting Congress about its support for Israel’s slaughter of children in Gaza.
“Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US,” Cohen said as he was being escorted out of the hearing by Capitol Police.
Cohen also called out Congress for its support for Israel’s starvation blockade on Gaza, which has been imposed since March 2. “Congress and senators need to ease the siege; they need to let food into Gaza,” he said.
Cohen’s protest occurred as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a staunch supporter of Israel, was giving testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
Capitol Police told Axios that Cohen was charged with “Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding.” Six others were arrested and charged during the hearing. Based on videos of the incident, their protest was not related to Gaza.
“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,” Cohen wrote on X after the incident. “This was the authorities’ response.”
Cohen has a history of antiwar activism and was arrested at the Department of Justice in 2023 for protesting in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He recently appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show and discussed his opposition to US involvement in the war in Ukraine.
God bless and protect this man from these godless genocidal American police and politicians who lack all sense of humanity and dignity.
"Incommoding." That describes the Zionist dominated US Congress – one big commode.
This, as the piss stain troll yet again smears Antiwar readers as pro-Hamas, and declares people in the US are free to engage in political speech without "reprisals."
And suppressed speech doesn't just happen in high profile settings like Congress:
"Activist arrested at gym for wearing 'Israel kills children' t-shirt" (Youtube, 1/25)
"Pro-Hamas" or anti-Nazi (anti-Zionist, Humanist)?
it is that one particular word which automatically stamps the post anti-Semitic waiting to be approved.
There are a number of filters, none of which “automatically stamps the post anti-Semitic,” all of which say “a moderator should look at this before it gets posted to make sure it doesn’t violate the site’s guidelines.”
Some of them aren’t even related to e.g. ethnic slurs. There are words that indicate probable spam, for example.
Thomas, I don't blame the moderators, I do accept your explanation, I may be wrong but I do think AI took over, and it has no facility to think, it is programmed to stick in its groove/program assigned by unknown human beings.
Youtube is schizoid. They do carry a lot of good videos pointing out what is really going on, but they are horrible when it comes to posters commenting on this particular subject. Just even mentioning Israel. 90% of my comments on other subjects get through but 90% of my comments on this subject get deleted or shadow banned, where the comment stays up for a while adn someone replies but the comment is already gone adn the reply makes no sense to many others who do not see the original the poster is replying to.
It can be insane. I recall during the election they took down a video by Chris Hedges for criticizing Kamala Harris. I do not recall phrases he used exactly, but it was something like she was inane. I mean, he had used harsher terms to describe Trump at different times. (Hedges is definitively black pilled on the uniparty).
Anyway, it was taken down for “hate speech”. The peak of absurdity, there was nothing racist or misogynistic about it.
I consider myself a progressive. I criticized Harris.
She is inane. She came in 4th in the primary in her own state (CA). Fourth!
You and your hate speech! Lol
She dropped out of the race long before the primary in her state.
"Just…mentioning Israel. 90% of my comments on other subjects get through but 90% of my comments on this subject get deleted or shadow banned"
That is quite educative…
Please check the logic of ny deleted post. Thank you.
You probably used the J-word, which automatically sends posts to moderation Limbo. It may be approved later.
It wasn't approved later… The gist was moral and verbal censorship makes it is the job of, say Christians, to confront Zionism in their ranks. The subject is unmentionable territory for standard western citizens.
The gist was that Jews in general are responsible to account for the actions of Zionists. No different than saying that blacks in general are responsible to account for the actions of car thieves, etc. Holding members of an ethnic group responsible for the actions of a particular gang which they may not (and in this, many DO not) support or affiliate with is just a plain ethnic slur. Do better.
The gist was that Jews in general are responsible to account for the actions of Zionists. No different than saying that blacks in general are responsible to account for the actions of car thieves, etc. Holding members of an ethnic group responsible for the actions of a particular gang which they may not (and in this, many DO not) support or affiliate with is just a plain ethnic slur. Do better.
I’ve got sometimes such pre-moderated comments approved later but maybe other times I did not. Once you get used to what words are stupidly pre-moderated at each site, you quickly learn to avoid them by using alt-words like “Jpeople” or “Talmudists” (in this case) or “g’cide” instead of “genocide” at YT, for example. Censorship is pointless.
Pull that at this site, and you won’t be at this site anymore.
The gist was that Jews in general are responsible to account for the actions of Zionists. No different than saying that blacks in general are responsible to account for the actions of car thieves, etc. Holding members of an ethnic group responsible for the actions of a particular gang which they may not (and in this, many DO not) support or affiliate with is just a plain ethnic slur. Do better.
You also censored my response to your intellectual gymnastics avoiding the idea that support for a religious state is contrary to what was once considered American constitutional philosophy.
The US has become a small-minded country compared to what it was when I was a young man.
I have no power to censor anyone. I’m not a government. The power I have is the power to enforce a web site’s decisions as to who gets to use it, how, and for what purposes.
Claiming that an entire ethnic group is collectively responsible/accountable for the actions of a particular political group is an ethnic slur, even if you pretend that the ethnic group is a religious group.
Last time I checked, Palestine is not in the US and thus not subject to “American constitutional philosophy.”
My point is a genocidal state is claiming itself to be a Jewish state. It is against the law for Westerners in many countries to analyze this conundrum.
There is no logic as far as I can tell from experience.
It's not ancestry or faith what separates good from evil, but Humanism vs neo-Nazism = Zionism.
Of course. Over one hundred years ago when archeologists Arthur Evans worked on the ruins of Crete, he was not so much excited about the Greek myths as much as an ancient civilization that existed before Greeks and their beliefs. What he studied was the beliefs in innate human understanding of life, of empathy for suffering of humans and animals.
Without emphaty we are merely the matter we are made off.
Well before Nazism or Zionism, human beings understood the nature of evil that can inhabit human beings. Throughout history humans associated evil with a loss of human soul and its capture by demonic forces. I do not see that today we are any more immune to the loss of soul than in any time in history.
But the capacity for looking at evil with equanimity is also a mark of out time. Men without chest sums it up nicely.
There were genocides before the Nazis, for example the Armenian Genocide in the 1910s-20s, or the genocide of Native Americans in the USA, or the Herero Genocide in Namibia, perpetrated by Germans who were not yet Nazis (but close enough). And there were many genocides also earlier. We won’t find Humanism in the past: Alexander exterminated the Thebans while Aristotle applauded, China became what it is by many genocides, almost as old as Alexander’s, neither Plato nor Confucius can save us, we can only build better based on what we have been doing right.
Does not speak well of man, does it?
Neither of “man” nor of “woman”, although probably men were more active, even among chimpanzees we see the occasional female partaking in the equivalent of genocide. Look up “Gombe war”.
However our equivalent cousin, the bonobos are much much more peaceful, empathetic and enjoy life a lot more. We are equally related to both Pan species and thus it should be clear that we have both sides… plus some of our own. A decade or two ago “the bonobo way” was a trend online, censorship and the kind of doomsayer pessimism you imply buried it. But you can’t really bury the genetic inheritance it is founded on: it re-emerges all the time.
Humanism FTW!
Folks – this is what they call "world peace". That's what our king was talking about in Saudi Arabia when he was saying world peace would have to come down hard on some "rogue or terrorist" outposts. North Korea has peace and Trump admired Kim for that.
So Iran don't listen to that wonderful peace they are talking about – watch this video, that will be you next if you do not do exactly as the empire orders.
Where are the Zionists on this forum who will call Ben Cohen a self hating Jew?
Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin do not visit this site.
LOL…. we're all better off for it.
He loves Judaism. Not Zionism.
Not I, I am pro-Hamas, a resistance movement, the only self-defense Palestinian people have and the Houthis.
That makes us cousins 🙂
Good man. Too many cowards out there.
Kudos to Mr. Cohen, a citizen who spoke up loud and clear in congress for many of us who think and feel just like he does. Many, many thanks for standing up, speaking for all of us out there, we are millions.
There was a tremendous brouhaha with Ben and Jerrys a few years back. They sold the company to Unilever decades before. But I guess they remained on an advisory board. Unilever had factories in Israel that made the ice cream.
I stopped buying it a while back, but the over the top sweetness was also a big part of it.
Anyway, Ben and Jerry said they supported Israel but not the occupation of the West Bank. So they wanted to boycott. Well you know how that shit goes…”hate, antisemitism”, yadda yadda, and then there was a court case and so Israel still sells Ben and Jerrys but under a different name, I believe spun off from Unilever.
I wonder if he is still in the “Israel has a right to exist” camp since the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, etcetera, etcetera etcetera.
I ❤️ his ice cream!
We will not be silent
we will not pretend
that what they do is justified
We will stand up
for those being murdered there
with our bombs made over here
We will shout the truth
over the din of their bullshit
never give in to this evil
Here the commode loud and obnoxious
this your congress you pay for
these are your employees
The toilet is backflushing
spilling and pouring filth
it doesnt have to be 1933
This is 2025
this is america
not universe 25
For those who do not know, Ben and Jerry are Jews. It is their right to protest against what the Zionist controlled Israel is doing.
To be arrested for speech? WTF!?