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Park Slope Food Coop condemns member over ‘Jewish supremacy’ remark

JL;DR SUMMARY The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn faces controversy after a member's comment about Jewish supremacism at a community meeting was condemned as antisemitic by both the coop's general manager, Joe Szladek, and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israel Palestine ConflictBdsMark TreygerCommunity TensionsPark Slope Food CoopFalse EquivalencyJewish SupremacismArab SupremacyDispute Resolution

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Joe Szladek, the general manager of the grocer in Brooklyn, wrote in an email to members Monday morning that the statement, as well as the applause it had received from other meeting attendees, had not only hurt our community but attributes harmful, false characteristics to an entire group of people and reflects widely recognized antisemitic tropes."
New York, United States
"The row was not the first time that the member-owned and -operated grocer has faced accusations of antisemitism, with a group of Jewish members filing a state human rights complaint alleging antisemitic and anti-Israel harassment there in October 2024."
Israel
"In the context of Israel/Palestine, this term is used by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, human rights experts, and political leaders to describe the racist belief that Palestinian people are inferior or less than human, which motivates Israeli apartheid (including the 2018 Nation-State Law and the 2026 death penalty for Palestinians) and the Israeli genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, the email read."
Palestinian Territories
"In the context of Israel/Palestine, this term is used by Israeli and Palestinian scholars, human rights experts, and political leaders to describe the racist belief that Palestinian people are inferior or less than human, which motivates Israeli apartheid (including the 2018 Nation-State Law and the 2026 death penalty for Palestinians) and the Israeli genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, the email read."

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