Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen says parent company Unilever blocked plans for a new flavor showing ‘solidarity with Palestine.’

Cohen, who launched the ice cream brand in 1978 with Jerry Greenfield, says bosses vetoed the idea despite its message of ‘permanent peace.’

He’s now releasing it himself — a watermelon sorbet under his activist label Ben’s Best, nodding to the colors of the Palestinian flag.

‘Here I am making something that’s actually pretty important,’ Cohen said while mashing watermelons in a video. 

‘The scale of suffering of the Palestinian people over the last two years has been unimaginable.’

Unilever, which has owned Ben & Jerry’s since 2000, confirmed it had blocked the idea, saying through a spokesperson it ‘wasn’t the right time’ for such a flavor.

Cohen accused the company of ‘corporate butt kissing’ to Donald Trump and called the decision a ‘corporate attack on free speech,’ the Guardian reported.

His announcement marks the latest chapter in a long-running feud with Unilever, which last year ousted Ben & Jerry’s CEO and threatened to cut funding to the founders’ foundation.

Ben Cohen, one of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s, sold the company to Unilever in 2000 – but his social activism has remained an important part of the ice cream company in the past 25 years 

The ice cream maker has been struggling with Unilever, the corporate parent company, for the past year

Ben & Jerry’s, known for flavors tied to progressive causes, has frequently clashed with its corporate parent.

The ice cream brand backed the Black Lives Matter movement, spoke out against President Donald Trump and protested for gay marriage rights.

In 2021, Ben & Jerry’s stopped selling its products in Israeli-occupied territories, prompting Unilever to sell its Israeli operation to a local licensee.

In March, the corporation fired Ben & Jerry’s woke CEO. 

A month later, Unilever threatened to withdraw funding from the founders’ foundation, which donates to a range of charities and social justice organizations.

Then, this September, Jerry Greenfield, the other co-founder, decided to walk away from the company amid frustrations with management. 

Unilever, PR reps for Ben & Jerry’s, and Cohen didn’t immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s requests for comment.