{"id":248076,"date":"2026-05-29T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:40:51","slug":"uja-federation-buys-20000-bags-of-bamba-in-response-to-brooklyn-co-op-boycotting-israeli-products-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248076\/","title":{"rendered":"UJA-Federation buys 20,000 bags of Bamba in response to Brooklyn co-op boycotting Israeli products – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n May 29, 2026
\n \/ JNS
\n )<\/p>\n

The UJA-Federation of New York said that it purchased 20,000 bags of Bamba in response to the Park Slope Food Coop\u2019s recent decision to boycott Israeli products. <\/p>\n

The UJA, the largest Federation in the world, which distributes $275 million in grants annually, described the co-op boycott<\/a> as \u201cdivisive and hate-driven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Food co-op members voted 67% to 31% to boycott Israeli products. Some 8,400 members, out of 17,000, reportedly voted at the meeting, which was moved online due to security concerns.<\/p>\n

The Federation said it will distribute the beloved Israeli peanut butter-flavored snack at Sunday\u2019s Israel Day on Fifth parade in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The food co-op is a beloved Brooklyn institution where people purchase food, particularly fresh produce, at near-wholesale prices in exchange for working a shift there every six weeks.<\/p>\n

It has carried a few products made in Israel, including Bamba, Dorot frozen cubes of herbs and garlic, Equal Exchange olive oil and a few brands of tahini.<\/p>\n

Equal Exchange olive oil<\/a> is made from olives grown by Palestinian small farmers in Judea and Samaria, according to the brand\u2019s website, and is pressed from Nabali olives, an indigenous variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 29, 2026 \/ JNS ) The UJA-Federation of New York said that it purchased 20,000 bags…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-248076","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\/248076","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=248076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}