I have studied countless situations where the radical left has blown apart very reasonable organizations. Today I start with the Israeli goods boycott at the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn. I didn’t experience it personally, but I’ve read much about it. I’m also interested because I was born in Brooklyn and still have friends and family there. I personally experienced the other two examples I write about. All three organizations were deeply affected by anti-Zionism and/or Jew-hatred.

My maternal grandmother moved to an apartment on Eastern Parkway in 1956. It was near the Brooklyn Museum and Prospect Park. To my four grandparents, all of whom had fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, Prospect Park was the epitome of grandeur. There was a lake with boating, there were swings and snack bars. All this accessible to anybody – even Jews. On another corner of Prospect Park is Park Slope, a very chichi neighborhood. It’s been that way for 50 years. And, of course they have a food co-op, established in 1973.

Over the years, the co-op board has brought up boycotting Israeli products – because really – what could be more important to a store’s bottom line? Or to the peace and creativity of a neighborhood icon.

The co-op has over 6,000 members. I don’t know how many voted, but 67% voted to boycott Israeli goods, which means removing and no longer selling any Israeli goods. The threshold for change used to be 75%, but the rules were recently altered to 51% before this vote. To the useful idiots at the Park Slope Food Co-op, if you use any of the following, you’re breaking your own boycott:

Waze, Wix, USB flash........

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