Baffled Disneyland visitors at the «It’s a Small World» attraction were greeted by a protest doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» over the weekend, sparking questions and speculation online as videos of the doll spread. 

Videos began circulating on TikTok and Reddit Monday showing a woman carrying a female doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» while walking around Disneyland. Another photo online showed the doll within the «It’s a Small World» exhibit, strategically positioned next to one of the tunnels that the boat ride traffics. 

Speculation mounted as the videos spread and earned hundreds of thousands of views and social media users questioned the meaning of the political stunt, while others questioned how the doll made it through the park’s tight security. 

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen revealed he was behind the stunt Thursday, telling Fox News Digital in a phone interview that he’s in the midst of a campaign against the U.S. government’s stockpile of powerful weapons as part of his «Up in Arms» campaign against the Pentagon’s spending budget. Cohen said that while the campaign targets current policies under the Trump administration, the matter of Pentagon spending is «disgustingly bipartisan» and stretches long past the current administration. 

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«The whole idea of the Small World exhibit is that it’s a small world after all,» Cohen told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. «You got all the children from the different countries around the world being together, loving each other. And we put a doll in there that says, ‘Remember Hiroshima.’ I mean, that’s what was supposed to happen after the bomb in Hiroshima. We were supposed to remember what we did there and say, ‘Never again.’ And we’ve, we’ve ignored that.» 

A doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» was spotted at Disneyland’s It’s a Small World exhibit over the weekend. (DCX Growth Accelerator)

The political protest was launched just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima bombings Thursday, when an atomic bomb killed more than 100,000 people in the Japanese city during World War II. Cohen specifically took issue with the ongoing war in Gaza, which he called the «moral issue of our time,» when speaking with Fox Digital, as well as the Pentagon’s nearly $900 billion budget. 

«They’ve turned us all into murderers, and they’re taking our money, buying bombs with it, and giving it to Israel to slaughter people in Gaza,» he said of the war that has raged since the Biden administration. «And a whole lot of them are kids, just like that little girl that we placed in Disneyland.» 

Cohen said his criticisms of the U.S.’ military budget and push to build stockpiles of weapons is «disgustingly bipartisan,» stretching back long before the Trump administration. 

«Trump is the current president. He’s responsible, but I can tell you that all the presidents before him were responsible as well,» he said, referring to the U.S.’ nuclear weapons program across the decades. 

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Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s, has a long history of left-wing political activism.  (Getty Images)

Trump repeatedly has championed his «peace through strength» vision for the U.S. military, citing that a powerful U.S. military will keep other nations from sparking wars. 

«For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions it was never meant to be,» Trump, for example, said during his speech to the graduating class at West Point Military Academy in May. «They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home.»

He added that those days are over via his peace through strength mission for the military, adding at the time, «My preference will always be to make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries where our differences may be profound.»

A Disneyland spokesperson told Fox Digital, when asked about the protest doll, that a cast member swiftly removed the doll from the ride attraction when it was first spotted, and reminded the guest of park rules. The activist who placed the doll within the attraction left without incident, according to Disney. 

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was detained for interrupting a Senate hearing in May.  (Getty Images)

Ben & Jerry’s, which Cohen and co-founder Jerry Greenfield sold in 2000, has a long history of left-wing politics and social justice activism, including rolling out ice cream flavors such as «Pecan Resist» in 2018 to protest the first Trump administration, and «Change the Whirled» in 2021 that was crafted with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who was the first sports player to popularize kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016.  

Cohen, specifically, also has not shied away from participating in public protests, including in May when he was detained after interrupting a Senate hearing focused on aid to Gaza. 

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Cohen said he is just beginning a four-year campaign protesting the U.S.’ military budget in an effort to get the funds «toward the things that people really want.»

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«Americans are compassionate,» he said. «We don’t want to kill families just like ours in other countries, we just want a good life for ourselves and our kids. People want a decent place to live that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, good schools, affordable childcare, but they say there’s not enough money, and what they don’t say is that they’re spending it all on preparing to kill literally millions of people around the world.» 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday confirmed he discussed a trilateral meeting to include Russian President Vladimir Putin, potentially as soon as next week, in a call with President Donald Trump one day prior. 

Zelenskyy – who echoed comments issued by Trump on Wednesday and said the discussion was also held with European leaders – called on Putin to «be brave» and take the meeting.

«Yesterday, various potential formats for leader-level meetings to bring peace were also discussed – two bilateral and one trilateral,» he said in a post on X. «Ukraine is not afraid of meetings and expects the same brave approach from the Russian side. It is time we ended the war.»

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The comments came after months of attempts by the Trump administration to get Putin to sit down with Zelenskyy, which the Kremlin chief has thus far refused. 

It appeared unlikely that he would agree to it this time around either, as Russian state media on Thursday reported Putin as being open to the idea, but said «conditions must be created for negotiations to take place.»

The «conditions» were also reported to be «far from being created,» according to a Telegram post by Russian state news agency RIA.

Trump’s foreign policy advisor further claimed on Thursday that the issue of a trilateral meeting was «mentioned» but «not discussed» during Putin’s talks with White House envoy Steve Witkoff and later, Trump.

From left to right, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hold a telephone conversation with President Donald Trump following Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 16, 2025, at Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania. (Photo by KuglerSteffen/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)

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«As for the option of a trilateral meeting, which for some reason was discussed yesterday in Washington, this option was simply mentioned by the American representative during the meeting in the Kremlin. But this option was not specifically discussed,» Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov said. «The Russian side left this option completely, without comment.

«We propose first of all to focus on preparing a bilateral meeting with D. Trump and we believe that the main thing is for this meeting to be successful and productive,» he added. 

Zelenskyy said he had been in discussions with both German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday to ensure Europe’s interests were also at the forefront of any U.S.-Russia-Ukraine discussions. 

«We are coordinating our positions, and we equally see the need for a common European view on key security issues for Europe,» Zelenskyy said. «Much depends – both now and in the long term – on the prudence and effectiveness of each step taken by Europe and America.»

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Aug. 6, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Both Germany and France have taken on leadership roles when it comes to the war in Ukraine and protecting Europe’s interests following Trump’s re-entrance into the White House earlier this year. 

The U.K. has also been at the forefront of these discussions, though Fox News Digital could not immediately confirm whether Zelenskyy had also already discussed the trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

El jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército israelí, Eyal Zamir, aseguró este jueves que la bautizada como operación Carros de Gedeón, la fase de la ofensiva israelí en Gaza que comenzó a mediados de mayo con el objetivo de ampliar el control militar del enclave palestino, está llegando a su fin tras lograr sus objetivos.

Las declaraciones de Zamir llegan en medio de una creciente tensión entre la cúpula militar y el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu por los planes del mandatario para tomar el control total de la Franja de Gaza, una propuesta que el Ejército rechaza categóricamente.

“Hemos cumplido e incluso superado los objetivos de la operación, y continuamos actuando para garantizar la seguridad a largo plazo de las comunidades del sur”, declaró Zamir durante una evaluación de seguridad matutina con la alta dirigencia militar, según comunicó el Ejército israelí.

El alto oficial militar añadió que las fuerzas armadas tienen “la capacidad de crear una nueva realidad de seguridad junto a la frontera, mientras mantenemos la presión sobre el enemigo. No volveremos a limitar nuestras respuestas. Eliminaremos las amenazas en su fase inicial”.

En un mensaje que parece dirigido directamente al gobierno, Zamir también defendió el derecho del Ejército a expresar su opinión profesional, incluso cuando esta difiera de las posiciones políticas. “Una cultura de desacuerdo es una parte inseparable de la historia del pueblo de Israel; es un componente vital de la cultura organizacional de las FDI, tanto interna como externamente”, declaró.

“Seguiremos expresando nuestras posiciones sin miedo, de manera sustancial, independiente y profesional”, agregó el jefe militar, en comentarios que fueron publicados horas antes de una reunión del gabinete de seguridad prevista para esta tarde, donde se discutirán los planes de ocupación de Gaza.

Fuentes en la Oficina del Primer Ministro han sugerido que si Zamir se opone al plan de ocupar Gaza, puede renunciar, según múltiples reportes que indican repetidos choques entre el jefe militar y el gabinete en días recientes.

Las fuerzas armadas israelíes son reacias a operar en lugares donde se encuentran retenidos los rehenes por temor a que los grupo terroristas palestinos en Gaza los ejecuten ante el avance de las tropas, como ya ocurrió a finales de agosto de 2024 con seis cautivos, cuyos cadáveres fueron hallados el 1 de septiembre.

Según la cadena pública israelí Kan, la cúpula militar cree además que ocupar toda Gaza provocará un aumento considerable de las bajas israelíes.

“No estamos lidiando con teoría; estamos lidiando con asuntos de vida o muerte, con la defensa del estado, y lo hacemos mientras miramos directamente a los ojos de nuestros soldados y los ciudadanos del país”, enfatizó Zamir durante la evaluación matutina. “Continuaremos actuando con responsabilidad, integridad y determinación, con solo el bien del estado y su seguridad ante nuestros ojos”.

La resistencia a los planes de Netanyahu no se limita al ámbito militar. El líder de la oposición israelí, Yair Lapid, advirtió este miércoles al primer ministro que la ocupación total de la Franja de Gaza “es una pésima idea”.

Tras reunirse con Netanyahu en Jerusalén, Lapid afirmó que le dijo: “Ocupar Gaza es una pésima idea. La mayoría de la gente no te apoya; al pueblo de Israel no le interesa esta guerra. Pagaremos un alto precio por ello”.

Lapid propuso una alternativa: “En lugar de una ocupación y una anexión de Gaza innecesarias, necesitamos atraer a Egipto a Gaza, para que haya otro gobierno que la gestione en vez de nosotros, y después centrarnos en lo importante, que es eliminar a Hamas”.

A pesar de la oposición militar y política, Netanyahu tiene previsto reunir este jueves por la tarde a su gabinete de seguridad para aprobar sus planes para tomar el control de toda la Franja.

El martes, tras una reunión de tres horas entre Netanyahu y Zamir, la oficina del primer ministro declaró que “las FDI están preparadas para implementar cualquier decisión tomada por el gabinete político y de seguridad”.

Zamir reafirmó el compromiso del Ejército con sus objetivos fundamentales: “Tenemos la intención de derrotar y colapsar a Hamas. Continuaremos actuando con nuestros rehenes en mente, y haremos todo para traerlos a casa”.