UAW Labor for Palestine + UAW 2325 Labor for Palestine showing up in Albany today. Showing NY state we stand strong with workers and unions both at home and in Palestine. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
zionists switch between BDS being deeply existential and antisemitic, to totally insignificant as soon as institutions follow through successfully on BDS
Centrist Dem says Mahmoud Khalil should be deported for praising the Park Slope Food Co-op vote to boycott Israeli products. Once again, an Israel supporter is willing to trample on Americans' rights to free speech and expression for the sake of a foreign govt.
The critical response to this has been a perfect blend of belittling—“Oh no, how will Israel ever survive?”—and hysteria—“The Park Slope antisemites are out to terrorize Jews and destroy Israel.” Anything to avoid reckoning with what it actually means.
It took 17 years of organizing, but the Park Slope Food Coop's membership has approved a boycott of all Israeli products. There were 4,572 yes votes, or a 67% majority in favor of a boycott. It's another milestone in liberal America's rupture with Israel.
Park Slope Co-Op, the subject of a surge of attention amid a vote to boycott 5 Israeli items, voted 2 to 1 in favor of the boycott: 4551 to 2083, far exceeding the simple majority (50+1) needed.
PSFC Members for Palestine say it took *17 years* for this vote.
W.
One grocery store boycott won’t end the occupation, but remember, it was workers at Dunnes Stores in Ireland who refused to sell grapefruit from apartheid South Africa that sparked a campaign in 1984 that eventually convinced the Irish gov to join the boycott. Bit by bit.
The way folks who’ve never given a shit are venting their electoral anger by constantly going “how’s Palestine now?” are really exposing their cruelty and exactly why folks are so sick of politics and the party brand is in shambles.
Dan Goldman's fearmongering and weaponization of antisemitism couldn't kill the boycott. His constituents passed it 67-31. Funny that establishment Democrats can't read the room in their own district.
And yes, BDS is the floor when Israel is a genocidal apartheid state.