Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop — a grocery store, for the record — just voted 67% in favor of boycotting Israeli products after Jewish members said they were literally too afraid to attend the meeting in person. The vote was moved entirely online because the co-op couldn't guarantee anyone's physical safety. At a grocery store meeting. In America. In 2026.
They turned a place that sells organic kale and fair-trade quinoa into a Hamas rally. These people can't even share a grocery store, but sure, they've got the answers for the Middle East.
Out of the co-op's roughly 16,000 members, 6,772 cast votes on Tuesday night. The final tally: 67% for the boycott, 31% against, 2% abstaining. But before they could even vote on the boycott itself, members first lowered the required threshold from a 75% supermajority to a simple 51% majority — which passed 68% to 31%. Convenient, that.
The boycott targets nine Israeli products including bell peppers, persimmons, olive oil, sesame products, Dorot frozen herb cubes, and Osem Bamba peanut-flavored snacks. That's right — they mobilized nearly 7,000 people to ban hummus ingredients and a peanut snack. The geopolitical implications are staggering.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law urged the co-op to cancel the vote or at least conduct it through a confidential process, stating that Jewish members "should not have to choose between local and organic food and their safety and their voice." Read that sentence again. Jewish Americans in Brooklyn are being told they have to pick between buying groceries and not being harassed.
The intimidation isn't hypothetical. During an April meeting, a co-op member openly declared that "Jewish supremacism is a problem" — out loud, to other members, at a grocery store in Park Slope. The group Coop4Unity filed a state human rights complaint alleging antisemitic and anti-Israel harassment targeting Jewish members. Rabbi Rachel Timoner, who leads the Park Slope area's large Reform synagogue and is a co-op member herself, said she would resign her membership if the boycott passed and predicted many other Jewish members would follow.
This isn't new, by the way. Calls for the co-op to join the BDS movement first surfaced back in 2008-09 and erupted into a massive fight in 2012 that drew thousands to debate a referendum. The anti-Israel faction has been grinding away at this for over a decade, and they finally got their vote — after changing the rules to make it easier to win.
Let's be clear about what happened here. A progressive Brooklyn institution held a vote on foreign policy — at a grocery co-op — and the atmosphere was so hostile toward Jewish members that the entire meeting had to be moved to Zoom. Staff raised "explicit concerns" about physical safety. Jewish members reported harassment. And the boycott passed anyway.
This is what the modern American left looks like. They'll lecture you about "safe spaces" and "inclusivity" until it's time to actually include Jewish people. Then it's boycotts, intimidation, and rule changes to ram it through.
As the New York Post reported, the co-op just told its Jewish members exactly where they stand. Nine products banned. Zero shame. Welcome to the most tolerant borough in America.
