News 12 previously reported <\/a>that the co-op voted to boycott.<\/p>\nMariana Gaston says she’s been a member there for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
“We have taken positions around social justice issues that affect society,” said Gaston.<\/p>\n
Alan Scheiner, senior litigation counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center, says the boycott violates anti-discrimination laws.<\/p>\n
“New York has a law against discriminatory boycotts. When you go to a place for public accommodation, or a grocery store, all those places are governed by generally the same anti-discrimination rules. You are entitled to not be subjected to a hostile environment,” said Scheiner.<\/p>\n
The complaint also lists incidents. One section claims “a member wearing a ‘Peace, Love, Israel’ shirt was told that the shirt was ‘disgusting’ and that the member was ‘a racist and a genocide supporter’ who should leave the co-op. \u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t think that it’s part of the co-op’s mission to enforce international law. The co-op is, if you look at its certificate of incorporation, its bylaws, its purpose is economic,” said Scheiner.<\/p>\n
“I disagree because we are human beings. We live in society. This is a vote of people. Of people that care about the people of Israel and the people of Gaza,” said Gaston.<\/p>\n
The complaint claims that the vote was not in accordance with the co-op’s rules.<\/p>\n
“You needed to have 75% of the membership voting in favor of. That vote had to be in-person under the bylaws. But because they flouted the bylaws, they were able to remove that restriction, with only a majority vote, not 75% vote, remotely,” said Scheiner.<\/p>\n
The co-op tells News 12 it is aware of the lawsuit and it’s being reviewed with legal counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Jewish Advocacy Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of some Jewish Park Slope Food Coop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-362228","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\/362228","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=362228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}