Posted on 05/12/2015 5:39:57 AM PDT by SJackson
Activists in favor of boycotting Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Coop lamented in an article the strong showing of Borough Park residents among the cooperative’s membership, which the New York Daily News on Monday said was basically a swipe at the local Jewish community.
In an article written by boycott, divestment and sanctions activist Ann Schneider for New York online newspaper the Indypendent last week, the divestment proponent appeared to lament the strong presence of Borough Park residents among the food cooperative’s members.
Speaking to her friend and “long-time member” Carol Lipton, Schenider wrote: “[Lipton] reminded me that the Coop had a membership drive in the 90’s and reached out to Borough Park, rather than Red Hook, Sunset Park or Brooklyn’s Chinatown. While we have worked for four decades to create a community based on cooperation, equality, diversity, organic farming and sustainability, ‘we’ve incorporated members whose core values are the antithesis of ours, except for the common denominator of concern for healthful and cheap food,’ Lipton said.”
Borough Park is home to the largest Orthodox Jewish community outside Israel.
Meanwhile, Schneider’s comments quickly caused a stir. The New York Daily News wrote an editorial pithily summing up Schneider’s argument as, “Those damn Borough Park Jews ruined everything.”
The Park Slope Food Coop is a successful, decades-old experiment in a collectively owned business, that has grown into a $50 million a year enterprise with 6,000 square feet of selling space.
Brandishing a mission statement that includes ensuring “diversity and equality” and accommodating the “opinions, needs and concerns of every member,” several of the cooperative’s members in 2012 attempted to pass a motion adopting BDS measures, but failed.
Recently, supporters of BDS at the cooperative, Schneider included, have sought to reintroduce a motion that would remove from the coop items produced by SodaStream, which recently announced plans to close its West Bank plant.
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Throw the Jew out, hold another vote.
So, it’s the fault of Jews that their anti-Jewish exercise didn’t work?
These people should have their organs extracted. Brainwise, there ain’t much there.
BDS = swastika
A person named Schneider is trying to damage a Jewish enterprise?
This stupid woman should be shipped immediately to Gaza. Let her see first hand all the bad things Israel is doing and how fine and upstanding the A-rabs are. Deluded libtard.
“Park Slope Food Coop”
Is that anything like a Chicken Coop?
Not ENOUGH self-hating Jews, I suppose.
Not ENOUGH self-hating Jews, I suppose.
Not nearly as many big peckers at a NY Food Co-op.
Park Slope has long been known as a mecca for non-religious Jews. Borough Park, as noted, tends to be filled with religious Jews. There’s long been tension between the two groups. Religious Jews have children...
Red diaper doper babies are being replaced by frum-from-birth Jews and Israelis, and they hate it.
Perhaps they need Natalie Portman as a spokesman.
She’s a self-hating Israeli.
“A person named Schneider is trying to damage a Jewish enterprise?”
Funny how that is. Look at all the anti-Israel sentiment in colleges. It’s run by Jewish groups who align with the 3-4 Muslims who talk equality then behind their backs preach killing Jews.
“Why would anyone boycott a coop...”
Looks like those chickens came home to roost.
Otherwise, move to one of the jealous 3rd world latrines more receptive to your hate and self-loathing.
Better yet, make an offer on the former digs of Soda Stream, and start producing something people willing want.
lol. Must be Obamacoop.
Schneider isn’t necessarily a Jewish name. IIRC it’s German for tailor.
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So what is she implying here? That Jews shouldn't be allowed to buy her organic food because they disagree with her politics?
Maybe she should sell wedding cakes and flowers...
-PJ
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