Ben & Jerry's CEO fired for woke activism: lawsuit

Unilever fired the CEO of its ice cream company Ben & Jerry's for his woke activism, according to a lawsuit by remaining bosses at the famously left-wing, anti-Israel sweets purveyor.

David Stever was fired March 3 after the parent company repeatedly clamped down on its planned activism, the Daily Mail reports, citing the lawsuit. 

Unilever stopped it from publicly supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia University alum at the center of a deportation battle, and from criticizing Israel for the Gaza war as well as promoting Black History Month, according to the report.

Ben & Jerry's was also planning a campaign against then-President-elect Donald Trump on "minimum wage, universal health care, abortion, and climate change," the report paraphrases the lawsuit.

Its board chair Anuradha Mittal, who runs the progressive Oakland Institute and denounced Israel on social media after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks, said she challenged Unilever's president of ice cream Peter ter Kulve to back up his claim that Ben & Jerry's activism fed a "continued perception of antisemitism," which she deemed "false equivalency," the suit claims.