Ben & Jerry’s two co-founders want to make it easier for Americans to sue police officers who abuse their authority, a move that reform advocates say is a key step towards substantive police reform. Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever, which has owned the Burlington, Vermont-based company since 2000, on July 5 to try to stop the sale of its business in Israel to local licensee Avi Zinger. Ben Cohen, co-founder of popular American ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested Thursday outside the Department of Justice while protesting in support of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. 0:00. 0:41. WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Israeli leaders are asking states including New Jersey to sanction Ben & Jerry’s and its Englewood Cliffs-based parent company after the ice cream maker Becoming a company like Unilever or a CEO like Polman. Well, today’s your lucky day because I interviewed the CEO of everyone’s favorite Unilever brand, Ben & Jerry’s. Part man, part dessert Ben & Jerry's CEO Matthew McCarthy says corporate America has a responsibility to fix racist systems. 02:57 - Source: CNN. The independent board of Ben & Jerry’s, which controls social responsibility matters, was formed as part of its merger agreement with Unilever in 2000. Since then, Ben & Jerry’s has continued Unilever-owned Ben & Jerry’s is the latest company to announce it is pausing ad spend on Twitter, citing a “proliferation of hate speech“ on the platform. While most of the other brands that Ben & Jerry’s CEO Matthew McCarthy said “business should be held accountable” as companies set targets to increase diversity within their organizations and beyond. The ice cream maker put In 2012, Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (VTJP) contacted Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield and the CEO of Ben & Jerry's after learning that ice cream produced by Ben & Jerry's franchise in Israel was being sold in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Ueh8mf8.