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On Aug. 1, after eight months of strife, the worker-owners of the Rainbow Grocery cooperative began voting on an issue that has become symbolic of a bitter divide in San Francisco's progressive community: whether or not to boycott Israeli goods. The vote is taking place through Aug. 15. In the meantime many onlookers are keeping close watch on the struggle as an important measure of just how much support the pro-Palestinian movement can expect from the left in San Francisco. The split began late last November, when a shopper looking for gelt, chocolate coins traditionally associated with the celebration of...

Boycott & Protest Against Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, SF, CA. The date of the upcoming protest will be published shortly. For further information, contact: Ian Zimmerman, Esq. at: vinzim@pacbell.net or else The Jewish Community Relations Council at: info@jcrc.org telephone (415)957-1551 In spite of substantial community protest, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is continuing to boycott Israeli products. Rainbow Grocery is ONLY boycotting Israeli products. Rainbow continues to sell products from numerous countries including China that have a history of human rights violations. Rainbow Grocery is claiming that there is NO boycott because only the Packaged Foods and Bulk Foods Departments within the Rainbow...