US activists to boycott Israeli products

On Tuesday night, thousands of members of the Park Slope Food Co-op gathered at the Brooklyn Technical High School to vote on a proposed ban of Israeli foods.

“We… support the boycott because of Israel’s decades-long discriminatory policies against Palestinians… We believe Israel’s policy on settlements must be actively protested and that an end to the occupation and equal rights for Palestinians are imperative,” Carol Wald, a co-op member said during the gathering.

On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution which condemns Israel’s announcements of new settlement homes, demands a reversal of the settlement policy and orders a probe into how Israeli settlements are infringing upon the rights of Palestinians.

Israel responded to the resolution by severing ties with the council.

Nearly 500,000 Israelis live in more than 100 settlement units built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

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