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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/389011/when-hippies-hate/
Those Who Voted for the Food Coop Boycott Forget the Israelis Who Were Murdered at a Music Festival
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Thane Rosenbaum - Members of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn voted 67-31% to boycott Israeli products and to formally join the ranks of the BDS movement. The Coop carries very few Israeli goods, just some tahini, snacks, produce, kosher matzo, hummus, and two hair products. Imagine the astonishing amount of hubris it requires for a grocery store that sells only a few Israeli products to believe that the world values its opinion about a conflict it doesn't really understand and smacks of antisemitism. The Park Slope Food Coop now officially coexists within the overall pro-Hamas crowd. Yet, screaming is not thoughtful, exclusion is not unifying, violence is not moral, intimidation is not neighborly, bullying is not consensus, and shouting down is not debate. Those who voted for the boycott are too antisemitic to realize that their real allies are not Hamas, who have no special affinity for their kind, but the Israelis who, on Oct. 7, 2023, attended their own version of Woodstock at the Nova Music Festival. Many had tattoos and wore nose rings. They beheld the stars like time-travelers to the Age of Aquarius. All were feminists and many counted themselves among Israel's vibrant LGBTQ community. The writer is a law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society.