Members of Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, have voted to boycott products from Israel and Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine after a contentious, decade-long debate.
Of the co-op’s 17,000 members, 6,753 cast votes on the issue during a three-hour virtual meeting on 27 May, with 4,551 (67%) in favour, 2,083 (31%) against and 119 (2%) abstaining.
The boycott took effect on May 27, 2026, and products subject to the boycott have been removed from sale.
The move, reported to involve items including tahini, peppers and persimmons, follows months of rival campaigns, with the boycott call led by the group Park Slope Food Coop Members in Solidarity with Palestine (SFC4Palestine), and endorsed by more than two dozen advocacy groups including several Jewish ones.
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