{"id":245897,"date":"2026-05-28T01:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:49:48","slug":"brandeis-center-exploring-legal-options-after-brooklyn-food-co-op-boycotts-israel-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245897\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandeis Center exploring legal options after Brooklyn food co-op boycotts Israel – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n May 27, 2026
\n \/ JNS
\n )<\/p>\n

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is weighing whether to sue the Park Slope Food Coop after the Brooklyn, N.Y., store voted<\/a> on Tuesday night to boycott Israeli products.<\/p>\n

Omer Wiczyk, senior counsel at the center, told JNS that he has been in contact with \u201cnumerous\u201d members of the co-op both before and after the vote and is \u201clooking aggressively to see what recourse we can take through the legal process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese types of boycott, divestment and sanctions resolutions end up bubbling over into more aggressive antisemitic conduct,\u201d he told JNS. \u201cThey are inherently antisemitic and anti-Israeli, and these movements don\u2019t stop with a boycott.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know where this is going, and that\u2019s why we are going to get out ahead of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The attorney noted that supporters of the boycott measure made antisemitic comments<\/a>, including someone saying during a co-op debate that \u201cJewish supremacism is a problem in this country.\u201d Some at the meeting applauded the latter statement.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Jewish supremacy\u2019 is a classic dog whistle, a classic antisemitic trope,\u201d Wiczyk told JNS. \u201cIt shows intent. When the members of the coop that are advocating in favor of the resolution are talking about \u2018Jewish supremacy\u2019 and applauding each other, it indicates to you that\u2014is this really about the treatment of Palestinians or something else?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is evidence of antisemitic animus going back 18 months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 27, 2026 \/ JNS ) The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-245897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}