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The Park Slope Food Coop is fighting over another BDS resolution — and this time it may finally pass

JL;DR SUMMARY The Park Slope Food Coop, a community-led grocery in Brooklyn, faces internal upheaval over a proposed resolution to engage in a boycott of Israeli products as part of the BDS movement. 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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BrooklynJewish CommunityBoycottProgressive MovementBdsPark Slope Food CoopCoop4unityPsfc For Palestine

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"inside the Park Slope Food Coop, demarcating a sort of free speech zone to separate two camps of activists from the business of the organic grocery store within."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"One older member walked up to a man handing out fliers against the boycott wearing a hat emblazoned with the logo for the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club"
Nazareth, Northern District, Israel
"at least one, Al Arz tahini, was founded by an Israeli Arab in Nazareth"

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