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Israel/Palestine

Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:55 AM Mar 2012

NYC Co-Op Plans Vote on Israeli Product Boycott

NEW YORK March 27, 2012 (AP)

A New York City food co-op will be voting on a proposed boycott against Israeli products to protest the Israeli's government's policies toward Palestinians.

The Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn is scheduled to take an initial vote on the matter on Tuesday.

The mayor and other politicians have denounced the proposed boycott.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that New York should be doing more business with Israel, not less.

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