Ben & Jerry's co-founder seeks input on watermelon ice cream

Ben Cohen, co-founder of ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, announced this week that he's creating a new watermelon-forward ice cream flavor to call for "a permanent peace in Palestine" and for "repairing all the damage that was done there." The BBC explains that the watermelon has become "a symbol for solidarity with Palestinians" because the fruit's colors — red, green, black, and white — are so similar to those of the Palestinian flag. Cohen announced an Instagram video, where he explained his motivation for creating the flavor:

The scale of suffering of the Palestinian people over the last two years has been unimaginable. So the ceasefire is a welcome relief, but there's much more work to do to rebuild. Palestinians are still living under occupation, still recovering from years of suffe