Park Slope Food Co-op votes to boycott Israeli products
Members of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn voted roughly 2-to-1, with 67 percent of participants, to implement a boycott of Israeli products. The measure bars about a dozen items sourced from Israel and Israeli settlements, including brands of tahini, peppers and persimmons. About 7,000 of the co-op’s 17,000 members participated in the virtual meeting that decided the measure. Supporters called the boycott a moral stand for Palestinian rights, while opponents said it amounted to an antisemitic position, and the decision makes the co-op one of the most prominent U.S. food organizations to take this stance.
My favorite miniature politics subplot in America is the "will the park slope food co-op boycott Israel" saga. Now in its third decade! Idk about now but in the 2010s there were 4 Israeli made products in the entire store it would've applied to
mtsw51Oh apparently it's 8-10 now! bsky.app/profile/josh...
Joshua J. Friedman10Best estimate now is 8 to 10 year-round items, so still largely an expression of values
Craig Ganzer6A few years ago, the Coop newsletter announced a moratorium on letters for and against BDS because they'd been crowding out letters on every other topic for ages. So in the next edition, every letter was for or against the new letter policy.
fizzlebuns.bsky.social2Looks like they just voted for the boycott, thus ending a 30-year struggle.
The members of the Park Slope Food Co-op voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli products, approving a measure hailed by supporters as a moral stand in defense of Palestinian rights but castigated by opponents as an endorsement of an antisemitic movement to eliminate Israel.
Gulag Bound9Apparently, no matter how awful the Netanyahu regime behaves, any actions taken against it are antisemitic… like how those who boycotted South Africa were anti-white
B Smith4Do they also boycott Chinese products for how China treats Uighurs? How many of those voting to boycott happily walk around with their iPhones or Android phones (all made in China)? They wouldn't be hypocrites who only care if a product protest doesn't inconvenience them, would they?
