{"id":247342,"date":"2026-05-29T03:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247342\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:48:18","slug":"jewish-legal-group-demands-brooklyn-co-op-reverse-boycott-of-israeli-products-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247342\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish legal group demands Brooklyn co-op reverse boycott of Israeli products – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n May 28, 2026
\n \/ JNS
\n )<\/p>\n

The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, N.Y., is violating federal, state and anti-discrimination law by boycotting Israeli products, according to the National Jewish Advocacy Center.<\/p>\n

PSFC \u201cneeds to undo the Israel boycott, put the Israeli products back on the shelves, stop letting the co-op become a hostile place for Jewish and Zionist members, and preserve all records connected to how this happened,\u201d Mark Goldfeder, director of the center, told JNS.<\/p>\n

The advocacy center sent a demand letter to the co-op on Thursday on behalf of members and importers.<\/p>\n

It gave the co-op until June 3 to remedy the situation. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, the expected next step is litigation on behalf of the members and importers harmed by the boycott,\u201d Goldfeder told JNS.<\/p>\n

The co-op voted<\/a> on May 26 to boycott Israeli products.<\/p>\n

The letter states that the boycott was approved \u201cthrough harassment, intimidation, deception and sleights by activists acting outside the scope of the PSFC amended bylaws and contrary to the interests of the coop and its members.\u201d<\/p>\n

The center states that the boycott \u201ctargets Israelis and Jews, who are the protected groups targeted by your boycott\u201d and argues that it has created \u201ca hostile environment for members, who are also shoppers and employees,\u201d in violation of New York state law.<\/p>\n

\u201cSell kale. Stop discrimination,\u201d Goldfeder stated. \u201cDo it, or we\u2019ll see you in court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 28, 2026 \/ JNS ) The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, N.Y., is violating federal,…\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-247342","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\/247342","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=247342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247342\/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=247342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}