Ben & Jerry’s co-founder arrested for protesting Gaza blockade at US Senate hearing

Ben Cohen and others interrupted RFK Jr at hearing to protest Israel's Gaza blockade and Medicaid cuts

Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream, has been charged with crowding and obstructing" others after he was arrested while protesting against the Gaza blockade during a US Senate hearing.

Cohen - the Ben in Ben & Jerry's - made his stand on Wednesday while Robert F Kennedy Jr was addressing a hearing of the health, education, labor and pensions committee. A group of activists heckled the health secretary over his anti-vaccine posture, yelling: When Bobby lies, children die," and Anti-vax, anti-science, anti-America".