'Submit or be murdered': Ben & Jerry's ice cream co-founder calls for ICE to be disbanded



The Ben of the famous Ben & Jerry's ice cream company is calling for resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned that the agency will kill anyone who doesn't submit.

Ben Cohen cited two lethal shooting incidents involving federal immigration agents in a video message he posted to the X platform on Wednesday.

'Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered.'

Cohen said he was going to announce a special ice cream to memorialize the life of Renee Good but that the killing of Alex Pretti made him change his mind.

"We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They're coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn't submit," Cohen said in the video.

"A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution. Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated."

"This is not freedom. ... This is not America. This is sheer cruelty. This is the beginning of the end of the land of the free unless we make it the home of the brave," he continued.

He went on to call for ICE to be defunded and disbanded, and closed by quoting the Bible and also Christian Marxist Cornel West.

Ben & Jerry's has been vocal about supporting liberal causes for many years and used their ice cream platform for advocacy.

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In 2024, the company called for Americans to recognize that the "US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it" for the Fourth of July.

In 2021, the company said it would refuse to sell its ice cream in the "Occupied Palestinian Territory."

In September, co-founder Jerry Greenfield stepped down from Ben & Jerry's after accusing its parent company of stifling his left-wing speech.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis takes action against Ben & Jerry’s over their Israeli boycott



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) took firm action against the parent company of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream after the company announced that they would no longer do business in what they referred to as "Occupied Palestinian Territory."

DeSantis asked the State Board Administration to place both Ben & Jerry's and its parent company, Unilever, on the "Continued Examination Companies that Boycott Israel List."

"As you know, Florida has long had a strong relationship with the State of Israel," said DeSantis in the letter to the office.

"As a matter of law and principle, the State of Florida does not tolerate discrimination against the State of Israel or the Israeli people, including boycotts and divestments targeting Israel," he added.

A spokesperson for DeSantis told Fox Business that being on the list meant the state could not buy stock in companies linked to Unilever, nor could they contract with the companies.

The Biden administration also rejected the move by the ice cream company and instead issued a statement in support of Israel.

"We firmly reject the BDS movement, which unfairly singles out Israel," said State Department spokesman Ned Price.

"While the Biden-Harris administration will fully and always respect the First Amendment rights of our citizens, of the American people," he added, "the United States will be a strong partner in fighting efforts around the world that potentially seek to delegitimize Israel and will work tirelessly, to support Israel's further integration into the international community."

While Ben & Jerry's decision was praised by many on the left, the official Twitter account of a Palestinian organization supporting Israeli divestment called on the company to go further and end sales of ice cream in all of Israel.

Here's more about the ice cream boycott:

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