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Applauding a speech that labels Jews as supremacists is not principled: It's hatred — and wrong

New York Post·Ramon Maislen·about 1 month ago
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At this month’s Park Slope Food Coop general meeting, a member announced on Zoom: “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country … “ And the crowd cheered. I have been a coop member for 15 years, and I have never felt more unwelcome in my own community. Members of the self-proclaimed “Park Slope Food Coop members for Palestine” have called me a racist genocide-supporter, simply for opposing their attempt to have our coop join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which wants consumers and stores to boycott Israeli companies.  Ramon Maislen is fed up with the unwelcome feeling he and others have endured in Park Slope. J.C. Rice I have grown used to it. What I have not grown used to is hearing antisemitic rhetoric spoken so openly , and so comfortably, in my own community . This did not happen overnight. The coop has seen a steady rise in anti-Jewish sentiment . In 2024, an Israeli woman stocking shelves was screamed at and told she smells of Palestinian baby blood.…

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