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BDS vote takes products from coexistence-promoting foodmakers off NYC co-op’s shelves

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NEW YORK — The anti-Israel boycott passed by New York City’s Park Slope Food Coop this week targeted companies involved in Israeli-Palestinian coexistence initiatives, pro-LGBTQ programs and family-owned firms employing diverse workforces. The co-op’s membership voted to boycott  Israeli products on Tuesday, after a years-long campaign that rocked the progressive community of 17,000. The co-op is a major institution in the Brooklyn neighborhood and the boycott became a citywide issue, drawing in elected officials, rabbis, street activists and leading Jewish groups. The boycott campaigners said the effort was meant to “stop genocide,” while opponents said the boycott was discriminatory, divisive and punished independent food producers for the actions of their government. The pro-boycott effort, led by a group called Park Slope Food Coop Members in Solidarity with Palestine, listed eight companies connected to Israel that sell products at the co-op and would be subject to boycott.…

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