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Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/get_out_vote_effort_helps_win_battle_food_co_op
"Get Out the Vote" Effort Helps Win Battle at Food Co-op
(New York Jewish Week) Doug Chandler - Nearly 2,000 of the co-op's 16,000 members attended the store's monthly meeting Tuesday. One reason for the size of the crowd was the concerted effort mounted by a number of groups to boost the attendance of pro-Israel members of the co-op, said Hindy Poupko, director of Israel and international affairs at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. The groups distributed flyers, posters, e-mail blasts and postcards with the same message aimed at appealing to a progressive audience: "Say yes to a Jewish state. Yes to a Palestinian state. No to BDS." Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked Monday about his views. "I think it has nothing to do with the food," Bloomberg said. "The issue is there are people who want Israel to be torn apart and everybody to be massacred, and America is not going to let that happen."