He was shouting about children’s lives being lost in Gaza while the U.S. pays for it “by kicking poor kids off Medicaid.”

Ben Cohen, one of the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested for protesting at a Senate committee hearing against American funding for Israel’s war in Gaza. Cohen, who has long been a vocal progressive activist and lately a harsh critic of Israel,

Ben Cohen, co-founder of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream franchise, was one of seven people arrested Wednesday for disrupting a hearing in which Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.