Ben & Jerry's founder says Palestine watermelon flavour blocked

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Greenfield was met with a massive global outpour of support for his stance, with thousands encouraging him at the time to start a new brand of ice cream.
56% : He can be seen mixing flavours in a large bowl, with watermelons around it, before saying: "I'm making a watermelon-flavoured ice cream that calls for permanent peace in Palestine and calls for repairing all the damage that was done there".
46% : The co-founder of the internationally-loved ice cream business Ben & Jerry's, Ben Cohen, accused the parent company of the brand of blocking his proposal for a flavour that would support Palestine.
40% : During the short video posted on his Instagram page, he also shed light on the dire humanitarian situation caused by Israel in Gaza.
40% : The co-founders have been vocal about Israel's war on Gaza and the occupation of Palestinians, with both objecting to the business operating in settlements in the occupied West Bank, and stopping operations there in 2021.
36% : Cohen was also arrested in May after he protested over the US giving military aid to Israel for the war on Gaza.
35% : In the video, the 74-year-old, who is known for championing many human rights causes, said that the Unilever/Magnum conglomerate blocked his team from creating a watermelon-flavoured ice cream, a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, and call for an end to the brutal war on Gaza.
34% : "They were stopped by Unilever/ Magnum...just like when Ben & Jerry's tried to stop selling ice cream in the occupied territories, they were blocked again by their parent company," he said.
34% : Israel's war on Gaza, which started in October 2023, has killed over 68,527 Palestinians, wounded over 170,395 others and devastated the enclave.
33% : He explains that for the last two years, Palestinians, especially children, have lived through unimaginable conditions amid Israel's brutal offensive and occupation.
31% : It has been determined to be a genocide by leading rights groups and the UN.

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