The New York Post reports: “A co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has donated more than $1 million to a group that is urging an end to US military support for Ukraine as the country tries to stave off a Russian invasion and occupation in Crimea.

Ben Cohen — who with Jerry Greenfield started the ice cream behemoth in 1978 — told the Daily Beast: “I think the US should use its power to negotiate an end to the war, not prolong the death and destruction by supplying more weapons.”

Cohen is head of the People Power Initiatives — one of whose projects is Eisenhower Media Network, which bills itself as “an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials … [which] seeks to reach broad, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the American people.”

The former national security officials promoted by EMN, including retired US Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, have argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked by NATO expansion eastward. Never mind that Ukraine didn’t invade Russia… It was the other way round so B&J is way off base.

Dennis Fritz, the director of EMN, told the Daily Beast: “We gave Putin just cause [to invade Ukraine].”

News of Cohen’s involvement with EMN prompted Twitter users to demand a boycott of the ice cream maker.

“Looks like I’ll be eating Jenni’s ice cream moving forward,” tweeted one Twitter user.

Cohen (left) with fellow Ben & Jerry’s founder Jerry Greenfield.

“Having trouble shedding those #COVID lockdown pounds, so it’s just as well I cease all consumption of Ben & Jerry’s ice creams,” another angry Twitter user commented.

Cohen and Greenfield are no longer involved in the day-to-day operation of the company, which is a subsidiary of multinational giant Unilever.

The Post has sought comment from Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever.

Since the start of the invasion more than a year ago, the Biden administration has sent a total of $76.8 billion to Ukraine — most than half of which has come in the form of military assistance, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ben & Jerry’s is no stranger to political controversy.

In 2021, the ice cream maker announced it would no longer sell its products in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — citing alleged human rights violations against the Palestinian residents of those territories.

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