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| US chain store boycotts Israeli goods |
| 2010-07-21 |
| An American chain store has boycotted sales of Israeli products to protest at the policies of the Tel Aviv's regime against Palestinians. The board of directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Washington decided last week that no more Israeli goods will be sold at its two grocery stores in the city. "We met last Thursday for the board members meeting and a pretty large group - about 40 people - presented the boycott project and answered our questions," board member Rob Richards told Ha'aretz on Tuesday. "A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it's minimal," he added. Richards also said that two members on the board were from the Jewish community who supported the boycott. The co-op grocery stores carried Israeli products including ice cream, crackers and a line of baby wipes. Olympia is the hometown of Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist who was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 as she attempted to prevent a Palestinian home from being demolished. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 They are a two-store cooperative, selling expensive organic and locally sourced foodstuffs. Here is their website. Right above the big Welcome! is a link to email the board. I sent them a brief, but pointed note. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-21 16:04 |
| #10 Two stores in the Pacific Northwest? I was going to make a crack about never having heard of them, but... really, this story vanishes up its own irrelevance. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-07-21 14:37 |
| #9 LMAO g(r)omgoru. ^5 I'm considering firing off an angry e-mail to those jokers. If I do, I'll have to find a way to incorporate a similar zinger. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-07-21 14:18 |
| #8 Good point, g(r)omgoru! |
| Posted by: American Delight 2010-07-21 10:44 |
| #7 They are so small that they only have a fragment page on Wikipedia, and it is broken. According to their web site, they have two stores. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-21 10:37 |
| #6 Looks like they will also be boycotting math and accounting. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-07-21 10:23 |
| #5 "US Chain Store"? More like little smelly hippy co-op. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-07-21 08:35 |
| #4 Will the boycott include the Lil' Rachel Yeast and Gluten Free Pancake Mix? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-07-21 07:07 |
| #3 How big is Olympia Food? If it is big any way of organizing a demonstration with slogand about Olymùpia Foood being antisemitic and racist? (Hint: Arabs killing Blacks in Sudan) |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-07-21 06:28 |
| #2 Pile all of that Jewish produced goods in the middle of the round-about, we'll have a huge bonfire tonight, strum guitars and sing patriotic Eco-songs. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-21 05:36 |
| #1 What would really impress me Rob is you and your pals boycotting Israeli chips in your computers, or Israeli invented medical proceedures in your hospitals. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-21 05:13 |