'Long Live Yahya Al-Sinwar': Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop Slapped With Discrimination Suit for Rampant Antisemitism, Crushing Dissent Over Israel Boycott
The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was slapped with a lawsuit on Tuesday that alleged an antisemitic intimidation campaign by its leadership to silence Jews who objected to its boycott of Israeli food, according to a copy of the lawsuit first obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The members-only food cooperative—an institution in left-wing Park Slope—voted in late May to boycott all Israeli goods, capping a pitched battle by co-op's anti-Israel "Members for Palestine" to see Jewish foods stripped from the shelves. Feuding at the co-op over whether to stock Israeli goods has simmered for many years—dating back at least to a contretemps over Sabra hummus in 2009—but anti-Israel sentiment hardened after Oct 7.
Tuesday's lawsuit—filed by the National Jewish Advocacy Center on behalf of five Jewish co-op members—maintains the co-op's leadership wrongly altered longstanding practices to facilitate the boycott's passage and that Jewish members who spoke out against the process were met with antisemitic harassment.
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