The Daily Show on the Park Slope Food Co-op + Monday Night's Vote: The Hummus Shall Remain
It is classic Daily Show. An intrepid Christiane Amanpour type diving into a roiling human rights stew. A few foils setting themselves up for easy ridicule with every utterance. A righteous skewering of extremely small-scale activism-gone-absurd in the land of $1,000 strollers. Samantha Bee brings viewers to the heart of the Park Slope Food Co-op's Israel problem. For those who haven't seen it, until a few days ago, the Brooklyn co-op was being torn asunder by members advocating that the store no longer stock products from Israel and those standing against the proposition.
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Watch the video. The interviewed advocate tells Bee, "Good shouldn't come at the expensve of human rights." Bee responds: "They're going to look directly to food co-ops." A spokeswoman for More Hummus, Please, an organization dedicated to keeping the handful of Israeli products sold at the co-op on the shelves, claims the members in favor of a ban hope "to end Israel as a Jewish state" -- an effort, Bee notes, that can start through "the medium of couscous." Hope for a "two-shelf solution," she says, sadly, doesn't seem likely.
On Monday night, however, the issue was resolved -- for now. Nearly 2,000 co-op members reportedly gathered and cast their votes. The result? By a margin of 1,005 to 653, the hummus shall remain.
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