The Daily Show Goes Shopping At The Park Slope Food Coop

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"Food shopping...it's kind of a pain in the ass. But did you know that there is a way to make it much, much worse?"

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Epic thank yous to Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee for making me laugh my ass off for a solid five minutes and 19 seconds with their hilarious coverage of the Park Slope Food Coop Israel ban ridiculousness. 

The world is a better place now that this video is in it.

BREAKING: The Park Slope Food Coop Vote: NO BAN ON ISRAELI PRODUCTS

Well, FIPSters, it is done.

The long awaited Park Slope Food Coop vote on whether or not there should be ANOTHER vote to ban Israeli products is over, and you'll all be happy to know that your Sodastreams are safe! 653 Coop members were in favor of a further referendum to vote on the ban, and 1005 members were against it. Translation: the Jews win again! Kidding! (Kinda!).

The live Tweet stream was pretty amazeballs (we retweeted most of the good shit on @effedparkslope) and we'll have some follow-up scoop manyana, but I wanted all you btchz to know right away that Israeli products are safe at the Coop! (for now at least). 

Glenn Beck Calls the Food Coop "anti-Semitic"

While speaking in Crown Heights at a fundraiser for a museum in Jerusalem last night, Glenn Beck addressed the latest revival of the Food Coop's Potential ban on Israeli products. 

Here's what he told the crowd of over 200 people, via The Brooklyn Paper:

“What is happening with the food co-op where they are seriously considering a boycott of Israel?” he said, likening the suggested ban to a subtle version of drawing swastikas. “When you use words like ‘I’m just anti-Israel’ or ‘I’m just anti-Zionist’ — that’s anti-Semitic.”

While most of the crowd reportedly cheered at this declaration, members of the Coop were (predictably) peeved at the name calling. “People at the Co-op are very open-minded,” a Coop member told the Paper. “I’d like to boycott him [Beck].”

Adventures At Planet Coop: A Park Slope Essay

Photo by nancyscola

It was shaping up to be one of those enviable early summer Brooklyn evenings: a group of friends picnicking on quilts in Prospect Park with perfumed linden trees, twinkling fireflies and a Celebrate Brooklyn concert in the background—when my BFF, Pasha, the green-eyed, goateed, social-conscience eco-revolutionary Midwestern hippie—nearly spoiled it all by rolling those green eyes at the tub of hummus I had brought and once again entreated me to join the neighborhood FoodCoop.

“C’mon Michele, you know it’s not only the right, but righteous thing to do. I can’t believe you’ve lived in Brooklyn for so long and not joined. You like good food. You’re all into the community. Plus, it’s MAD CHEAP!”

I had heard this from him many times before and answered (as always), that while I did indeed like food (and very much so), it was now 2008, I had lived in said community for 20 years and been warned at regular intervals by friends and neighbors against subjecting myself to the will of those “militant sanctimonious fascist hippies.” He bristled in defense while our other friends laughed. But since we were, after all, BFFs, we agreed to disagree and turned to more pressing concerns: “Who needs more wine?” and “Keep an eye out for the cops!”

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Who Gives A Shit: Will You Vote For The Vote on Banning Co-op Products from Israel?

 photo by Park Slope Lens

It seems like only last summer we were arguing about arguing whether or not the Park Slope Food Co-op should ban all products imported from Israel. The B.D.S. (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement -- a global initiative to boycott Israeli companies -- has been knocking on the co-op's door since February of 2009, and has been called everything from anti-Semitic to, as super star lawyer Alan Dershowitz said, outright "bigotry."

Needless to say this is a hot topic that won't go quiety into that good night, especially since the Co-op and its members are ready to put their vote where their mouths have been for the last three years. But let's be clear, this isn't a vote for whether or not to actually ban Israeli products. This is a vote for whether or not to put the B.D.S. issue to a vote at a subsequent meeting. As I have written in previous posts, I am not a co-op member because they have too many rules and do shit like voting to put things to votes. Please refer to the quote below from the Wall Street Journal as a case-in-point:

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