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Storied New York food co-op votes to boycott Israeli products after contentious campaign

Members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop voted 67% in favor of boycotting roughly a dozen Israeli and Israeli settlement products, concluding years of contentious debate amplified by the Gaza war. The virtual meeting, attended by 7,000 of the co-op’s 17,000 members, also approved lowering the supermajority threshold for future boycotts; tensions during the campaign included verbal altercations and divisive comments, leading the co-op to increase security measures.