One of the lefty co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s is making a Palestine-themed sorbet on his own after parent company Unilever allegedly blocked the ice cream giant from releasing the flavor.

Ben Cohen claimed Tuesday that Unilever and its spinoff Magnum Ice Cream Company had “stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine.”

“So I’m doing what they couldn’t,” he said as he squashed watermelons into juice in a video posted on X . “I’m making a watermelon-flavored ice cream that calls for permanent peace in Palestine and calls for repairing all the damage that was done there.”

Watermelons have become a symbol of Palestinian solidarity – appearing on signs at protests and in social media comments – since the fruit’s red, green, black and white colors match those on the Palestinia

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