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Park Slope Coop’s Israel boycott actually ripped Arab products from the shelves: business owner

Nypost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · · 643 words · By Kyra Breslin
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Park Slope Coop’s Israel boycott actually ripped Arab products from the shelves: business owner See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Park Slope Coop’s Israel boycott actually ripped Arab products from the shelves: business owner See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GooglePark Slope Food Coop’s contested vote to boycott Israeli products earlier this week has actually removed Arab-founded products from the shelves, according to one of the business owners impacted.

Common ground

Rachel Simons, the founder and CEO of tahini brand Seed + Mill — one of the products impacted by the boycott — told The Post that the ban also included fellow tahini rival Al Arz, formerly owned by Julia Zaher, an Israeli-Arab.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Pity: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/lifestyle/park-slope-coops-israel-boycott-actually…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Park Slope Food Coop’s contested vote to boycott Israeli products earlier this week has actually removed Arab-founded products from the shelves”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that the Park Slope Food Coop voted to boycott Israeli products and that this resulted in the removal of Arab-founded products from shelves.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC) is a food cooperative located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is one of the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the United States. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope_Food_Coop
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct. Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs. This…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_cooperatives
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Claim 2: “Julia Zaher... sold it for $50 million”
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The specific detail that Julia Zaher sold the business for $50 million is mentioned in one web search result (quoting Rachel Simons), but not corroborated by other independent sources or the provided Wikipedia entry.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aida Touma-Suleiman (Arabic: عايدة توما سليمان, Hebrew: עָאִידָה תּוּמָא סֻלִימָאן; born 16 July 1964) is an Israeli Arab journalist and politician. She has been a member of the Knesset for Hadash sin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida_Touma-Suleiman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Julia Zaher (Arabic: جوليا زهر, Hebrew: ג'וליה זהר) is an Israeli Arab businessperson, philanthropist, and former schoolteacher. She is owner and CEO of Al Arz Tahini, a tahini manufacturing company. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Zaher
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 · “This is an Arab-Israeli woman who's just grown and built a successful business and sold it for $50 million,” Simons said. “And now you're going ...
https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/lifestyle/park-slope-coops-isr…
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Claim 3: “the ban also included fellow tahini rival Al Arz, formerly owned by Julia Zaher, an Israeli-Arab”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that the boycott included Al Arz and that it was formerly owned by Julia Zaher, an Israeli-Arab.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct. Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs. This…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_cooperatives
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC) is a food cooperative located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is one of the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the United States. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope_Food_Coop
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Claim 4: “Seed + Mill works with a co-packing facility in Northern Israel that is owned by Arab Muslim Israelis”
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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant (Minecraft seeds, gardening seeds) and do not mention Seed + Mill's co-packing facilities.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 6, 2026 · First, use the controls above the map to enter your world seed, Minecraft version and dimension (Overworld, The Nether or The End). You can also use a savegame to import the seed, or use…
https://www.chunkbase.com/apps/seed-map
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web search NEUTRAL — Johnny's helps growers and gardeners succeed with superior seeds, tools and service. Quality vegetable, herb and flower seeds including certified organic seed.
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Nothing compares to the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow. Our founder, W. Atlee Burpee, knew this. And so do we. Since 1876, we've been committed to developing and sourcing seeds and tool…
https://www.burpee.com/
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Claim 5: “The boycott vote on May 26 — which drew over 7,000 members and passed with an overwhelming 67% in favor — went into effect immediately”
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Multiple independent sources confirm the May 26 vote, the participation of over 7,000 members, the 67% approval rate, and that it went into effect immediately.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nearly 7,000 out of the 16,000 members of the Park Slope Food Coop signed on to participate in the vote, where two ballot questions decided the fate of under a dozen Israeli products sold at the neigh…
https://www.jta.org/2026/05/26/ny/park-slope-food-coop-votes…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tuesday’s boycott vote — which drew over 7,000 members and passed with an overwhelming 67% in favor — went into effect immediately, with the Israeli products vanishing from the shelves by Wednesday mo…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/park-slope-coop-remove…
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web search NEUTRAL — The boycott passed with 67% in favor, 31% opposed and 2% abstaining. It will apply to a range of goods produced in Israel and in West Bank settlements, including peppers, persimmons, several tahini br…
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1fnt114emg
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Claim 6: “Rachel Simons... the Australian-born founder”
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Three independent web sources explicitly state that Rachel Simons, the founder of Seed + Mill, was born in Australia.
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web search NEUTRAL — Founder & CEO Seed + Mill and author of Sesame · Experience: Seed + ... Sep 2004 - Oct 2012 8 years 2 months. Sydney, Australia. Commercially focused ...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-simons-38043051
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web search NEUTRAL — Seed+Mill has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Food52, Bon Appétit, and more. Rachel was born in Australia, but now lives in New York with her ...
https://clevelandjewishbookfest.eventive.org/schedule/68cc45…
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web search NEUTRAL — Seed+Mill has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Food52, Bon Appétit, and more. Rachel was born in Australia, but now lives in New York with her ...
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/rachel-simons
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Claim 7: “The New York-based sesame and halva company, which began as a stall in Chelsea Market in 2016, has sold products through the Park Slope Food Coop since roughly 2019”
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The provided evidence discusses the coop's history of boycotts and pension issues, but does not contain information regarding Seed + Mill's founding date, Chelsea Market location, or its history with the coop.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Park Slope Food Coop has taken political stances on selling certain country’s products before, including boycotting Chilean products in 1973 in response to the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet,…
https://www.jta.org/2025/06/23/ny/at-park-slope-food-coop-a-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Need to spread the Bamba love…people don’t know what they’re missing out on. Unless, of course they have a peanut allergy. Open a competing Coop in the neighborhood.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uja-federation-of-new-york_ba…
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web search NEUTRAL — Members shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn.The trustee responsible for the biotech stocks will step down, once he finishes liquidating the portfolio, a process that will take months. “Y…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/business/park-slope-food-…
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Claim 8: “Another product, Equal Exchange Olive Oil — also ripped from the shelves — is actually made by a non-profit organization led by a team of Arab and Jewish women”
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Three independent web sources confirm that Equal Exchange Olive Oil was removed and that it is produced by a non-profit led by Arab and Jewish women.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amoco ( AM-ə-koh) is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998. The Amoco Corporation was an American chemical and oil company, founded b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Oil-for-Food Programme (OIP) was established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The olive (botanical name Olea europaea, "European olive") is a species of subtropical evergreen tree in the family Oleaceae. Originating in Asia Minor, it is abundant throughout the Mediterranean Bas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive
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