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S.A.F.E. Campus, which fights antisemitism and BDS, has taken significant steps to hold a Brooklyn-based grocery co-op accountable for illegal discrimination against Jews and Israelis. Let’s join them!
Last week, on Tuesday evening, May 26, 2026, the Park Slope Food Coop, a grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y., with approximately 16,000 members, voted 67% in favor of removing nine Israeli products from its shelves, including popular items such as Osem Bamba snacks, tahini, olive oil, bell peppers, persimmons, and Dorot frozen herb cubes.
The co-op vote, which followed a preliminary measure lowering the approval threshold from a 75% supermajority to a simple majority, targeted goods produced in the Jewish state, including within the pre-1967 borders.
Ironically, the co-op refuses to boycott goods from countries with well-documented human rights violations, such as China.
Products subject to the boycott have been removed from sale, the co-op’s website confirms.
“I am absolutely heartbroken,” the owner of Seed + Mill, an Israeli-made tahini brand in New York whose product was removed from the shelves, told The Jerusalem Post.
“It’s a very visible storm, and my worry is that this sets a precedent for other co-ops. There’s a lot of food co-ops in the US, and I worry that this becomes normalized for others,” she said.
Indeed, she continued, “the stated mission of the boycott is to end apartheid, and I keep saying, ‘What apartheid?’ My products are made by Israeli Arabs, not Jewish Israelis.”
As noted by S.A.F.E. Campus, a non-partisan organization dedicated to advocating for Zionist Jewish students and faculty members who face discrimination and exclusion on college campuses, “this action constitutes a clear and blatant violation of New York Executive Law §296(13), which explicitly prohibits discriminatory boycotts based on national origin.”
S.A.F.E. Campus immediately filed a formal complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights against the vote to boycott Israeli products.
In addition, Prof. Jeffrey Lax, founder of S.A.F.E. Campus and a CUNY law professor, has demanded that New York State add the co-op to Executive Order 157’s BDS list, which requires all state entities to divest from the co-op.
Discriminatory boycotts have no place in New York! Please support S.A.F.E. Campus in its fight against antisemitism and BDS!
📞 CALL TODAY!
Call New York State Commissioner Jeanette M. Moy at 518-474-3899 or email: comments@ogs.ny.gov
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Call the office of New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul at 518-474-8390 or visit: https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form
Sample text:
Executive Order 157 directs all affected state entities to divest public funds from, and refrain from investing in, any institution or company determined—based on credible public information—to engage in BDS activity against Israel. The order defines such activity to include any refusal to deal with, or termination of business relations with, companies because they conduct business with or in Israel.
We demand that the Park Slope Food coop be promptly added to the list of institutions and companies that participate in boycott, divestment, or sanctions activity targeting Israel.
Discriminatory boycotts have no place in New York State!
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