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RFK Jr. hearing halted as screaming protesters including Ben & Jerry’s co-founder carried out
https://www.msn.com ^ | May 14 2025 | Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner

Posted on 05/14/2025 4:09:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s Senate hearing on Wednesday was immediately thrown into chaos when several protesters, including a co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, began screaming, causing them to be removed.

“You’re killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here,” Ben Cohen appeared to shout during the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing before being escorted out by U.S. Capitol Police officers.

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TOPICS: Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; News/Current Events; Yemen
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bencohen; domesticterrorists; hamas; hamasagents; hezbollah; hhs; iran; rfkjr; riotersnotprotesters; senate; whatsbensfrnick; yemen
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Kennedy looked visibly shaken at the first protester's initial shout, which caused heads to turn and police officers to spring into action.

Prior to the protest, Cohen participated in an "Americans Against Genocide" press conference alongside other speakers such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), during which they called on the United States to pressure Israel into lifting its blockade of supplies and food to the people in Gaza.

“We are expected to be good Americans and look the other way as Israel prevents food, water, and medicine from reaching the remaining people of Gaza,” Cohen said at the press conference. “Israel is literally starving them to death. … We will not look away. We will not be silenced. We will do everything we can to get our government to stop being complicit in starving little kids to death.” Most pro-Israel advocates have rejected the characterization of Israel's war in Gaza as a genocide.

The hearing was centered on the HHS's fiscal 2026 budget proposal.

1 posted on 05/14/2025 4:09:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Video
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen thrown out for heckling RFK Jr. during a hearing.
https://rumble.com/v6tdvbp-ben-and-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-thrown-out-for-heckling-rfk-jr.-during-.html


2 posted on 05/14/2025 4:11:13 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Beowulf9

His ice cream kills more kids with diabetes


3 posted on 05/14/2025 4:12:16 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

Ben & Jerry’s hates kids because their product gives them diabetes and kills them.


4 posted on 05/14/2025 4:14:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

I’ll bet 100% he’s pro-abortion


5 posted on 05/14/2025 4:15:07 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

Their best seller is the Ben & Jerry’s GI Bleed Cherry Chocolate Stool flavor.


6 posted on 05/14/2025 4:15:24 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Beowulf9

Why are kids on Medicaid?


7 posted on 05/14/2025 4:16:00 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: janetjanet998
Ben Cohen

A long-time, trusted and valued benefactor of the Synagogue of Satan.

8 posted on 05/14/2025 4:16:06 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Fledermaus

I thought Biden beat it.


9 posted on 05/14/2025 4:16:29 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Beowulf9

“You’re killing poor kids in Gaza”

Still better than Ben and Jerry’s KILLING poor kids in the US, given the amount of carbs in their ice cream.


10 posted on 05/14/2025 4:17:02 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Fledermaus

Earlier, I read on X:

“Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
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NEW: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen has a meltdown on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before being thrown out of the hearing room.

If he is concerned about Americans’ health, he should look no further than Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

A pint of Ben & Jerry’s Milk & Cookies ice cream has 1130 calories, 97 grams of sugar, 117 grams of carbs, and 67 grams of total fat”.


11 posted on 05/14/2025 4:17:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Ben Gay


12 posted on 05/14/2025 4:17:26 PM PDT by Third Person
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Yeah because the DHS runs foreign affairs. Silly grandstanding.
Ben & Jerry’s causes Jerry Nadlerism.


13 posted on 05/14/2025 4:19:05 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Beowulf9

Hamas (aks Iranian) propaganda in the form of ice cream. I haven’t had it for many years, although I did have a fondness for Cherry Garcia. Pity. It sucks when assholes of companies get political.


14 posted on 05/14/2025 4:19:17 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: monkeyshine

Meant HHS lol.


15 posted on 05/14/2025 4:19:27 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Third Person

Pretty funny 😆


16 posted on 05/14/2025 4:20:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Fledermaus
Bingo!!! That was my first thought, too.

Wouldn't it have been sweet if Kennedy had quietly told Cohen: "Your ice cream has killed many times more American kids than the Israeli anti-terrorist operations in Gaza. YOU are the one who started killing our kids with your high fat ice cream and Hamas started the killing of Israeli kids."


17 posted on 05/14/2025 4:27:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: janetjanet998

Geezers, Democrats hating other Democrats.


18 posted on 05/14/2025 4:30:33 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Beowulf9

>>“You’re killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here,” Ben Cohen appeared to shout..

Clearly you don’t need a lot of intelligence to be an ice cream mogul.


19 posted on 05/14/2025 4:31:23 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Beowulf9

Smells like what happened on J6.

When do the solitary confinements begin?


20 posted on 05/14/2025 4:31:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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