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Ben & Jerry’s Founder Funds Campaign Against Ukraine Support
Ben Cohen has donated more than $1 million to a group campaigning to turn the U.S. public against President Biden’s military support for Ukraine.

3.20.23
A group funded by Ben & Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen is running a media campaign against U.S. military support for Ukraine. The organization—Eisenhower Media Network (EMN)—has been reaching out to reporters to push claims that the U.S. is spending too much money trying to help Ukraine fight off Vladimir Putin’s invasion. EMN is a project run by the People’s Power Initiative, a group that counts Cohen as its president and a major backer. The ice-cream mogul and long-time Bernie Sanders campaigner has given more than $1 million to the People’s Power Initiative via the Ben Cohen Charitable Trust, according to public records. The EMN project promotes a group of U.S. military veterans as experts and pundits willing to talk about the war in Ukraine. Some of them have been echoing Kremlin propaganda lines by claiming that U.S. military support for Ukraine is extending and intensifying the fighting, and suggesting that NATO expansion was one of the causes of the war. “We gave Putin just cause,” the director of EMN, Dennis Fritz, told The Daily Beast in an interview. An EMN spokeswoman confirmed that Ben Cohen is president of the board of directors of People Power Initiatives (PPI) and its “top donor.”
Cohen disingenuously neglects to mention that the war would stop tomorrow if Russia withdrew all of its military from Ukraine.“The U.S. could use its power to advocate for a negotiated settlement, but instead it’s using its power to prolong the war — prolong and prolong and increase the death and destruction.” - Ben Cohen
Just to be clear, the major donor of EMN is Ben Cohen, one of the founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc.
Ben & Jerry's is now owned by Unilever, the British multinational conglomerate which issued this statement.....
“In this instance, Ben is acting in his personal capacity as a private citizen, not as a representative of Ben & Jerry’s,” said Sean Greenwood, a spokesperson for Ben & Jerry’s. “Ben & Jerry’s stands firmly against military action of any kind to alter national borders, which is why we remain opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”