{"id":1031888,"date":"2021-11-19T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031888"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:13:53","slug":"fact-check-did-ben-jerrys-release-a-new-ice-cream-flavor-in-honor-of-joseph-rosenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-ben-jerrys-release-a-new-ice-cream-flavor-in-honor-of-joseph-rosenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Release A New Ice Cream Flavor In Honor Of Joseph Rosenbaum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-ben-jerrys-release-a-new-ice-cream-flavor-in-honor-of-joseph-rosenbaum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10225570088622005&amp;set=a.10203348890185932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a new Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream flavor in honor of Joseph Rosenbaum, a man who was shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during an August 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7324289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7324289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence of a new Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s flavor in honor of Rosenbaum. The claim stems from a parody Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse, an 18-year-old from Illinois, is on trial for the fatal shootings of Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, as well as injuring Gaige Grosskreutz during an Aug. 25, 2020, protest in Kenosha, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-kenosha-3febaa501c57a6b54e168353fe0b2a26\">Associated Press<\/a> reported. Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the protest, which was in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/jacob-blake-shooting-kenosha.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10225570088622005&amp;id=1321331082&amp;set=a.10203348890185932\">image<\/a> on Facebook claims to show a new Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream flavor in honor of Rosenbaum called, \u201cRosenbaum\u2019s Heroic Hazelnut.\u201d Text in the image states all proceeds from the flavor will be donated to Black Lives Matter. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-check-ben-jerrys-discontinuing-vanilla-ice-cream-combat-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Is Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Discontinuing Its Vanilla Ice Cream To Combat White Supremacy?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, there is no evidence Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s unveiled a new ice cream flavor in honor of Rosenbaum. A review of the company\u2019s website turned up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\">no results<\/a>&nbsp;for a flavor called \u201cRosenbaum\u2019s Heroic Hazelnut.\u201d Nor has Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s made any such announcement on its verified&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=joseph%20rosenbaum%20(from%3Abenandjerrys)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The claim of the supposed new ice cream flavor appears to stem from a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoryNewsNet\/status\/1459574391042236423\">tweet<\/a>&nbsp;posted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoryNewsNet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victory News Network<\/a>. Victory News Network describes itself as parody in its Twitter bio, indicating the tweet was not meant to be taken seriously. Despite the Disclaimer, some social media users have shared the image without a warning, seemingly believing it to be genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s has previously been vocal about its political views,&nbsp;ending its sales in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/about-us\/media-center\/opt-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Occupied Palestinian Territory<\/a> to protest \u201cinternationally recognized illegal occupation,\u201d and supporting causes like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/whats-new\/2017\/03\/reforming-criminal-injustice\">criminal justice<\/a> reform and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/home\/whats-new\/2021\/02\/racial-justice-america\">racial justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benandjerrys\/status\/1458964448924819460\">tweet<\/a> on Nov. 11 about the Rittenhouse trial stating \u201cour \u2018justice\u2019 system is racist. How would this trial be going if he was a Black 17 yr old that crossed state lines illegally carrying an AR-15 and shot 3 white protesters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s did recently announce on its Twitter page a new flavor dedicated to Colin Kaepernick called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benandjerrys\/status\/1460261616671465475\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change The Whirled<\/a>,\u201d with proceeds going to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yourrightscamp\">Know Your Rights Camp<\/a>, an organization founded by Kaepernick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a new Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s ice cream flavor in honor of Joseph Rosenbaum, a man who was shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}