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Name: Scott McClay on May 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carla Curio on May 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jesse on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dorli Rainey on May 24, 2010Comments: Apartheid would never have stopped in South Africa if it had not been for people with conscience who spoke up at great peril to themselves. As Dr. Martin Luther King said: Silence is betrayal. Can Madison Market do any less?Flag
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Name: Mohamed El-Sharkawi on May 24, 2010Comments: Human right for allFlag
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Name: Aditya Ganapathiraju on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Linda Bevis on May 24, 2010Comments: Hold Israel to the same standards of human rights as every other government. Focus on Israel because we Americans pay Israel $3 billion every year. Without this support, Israel could not maintain its occupation/apartheid/ethnic cleansing. We Americans are morally culpable unless we act to stop Israel now.Flag
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Name: Linda Jansen on May 24, 2010Comments: Support human rights. Join Elvis Costello in boycotting Israel for its brutal occupation of Palestine.Flag
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Name: Nada Elia on May 24, 2010Comments: We cannot be silent as Israel continues to deny the Palestinian people their basic human rights.Flag
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Name: Cynthia Barry on May 24, 2010Comments: I have seen the abuse inflicted by Israeli soldiers on the Palestinian people first hand. A close friend had a cousin die in labor at a checkpoint because the soldiers would not let her through to a hospital. A 10 year old cousin was shot and killed by Israeli snipers leaving his house to go to school, when his uncle tried to help him, he was killed as well. Settlers seized over 100 hectares of land that had been in my friends family since the Ottoman empire, and they received no compensation. No one is this family has ever committed a terrorist act, they in fact, have been the constant victims of Israeli terrorism. These are the events of only one family; a Palestinian family does not exist that has not been affected in a severely negative way by Zionist policies. I beg you to please rethink your stance on a boycott against Israeli products.Flag
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Name: Ahmed Zayan on May 24, 2010Comments: how long it will take people to recognize the suffering of the Palestinian??Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 24, 2010Comments: in the spirit of the Co-op movement, we should consider that legal and just means of production is important, as experienced with coffee, chocolate, etc. Israeli products which are produced on land, and with resources, that are recognized as belonging to Palestinians is completely unjust and should be intentionally avoided. ConstanceFlag
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Name: Shahzad Bhatti on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Erin Wade on May 24, 2010Comments: I want to be on record as supporting the proposal that Central Coop enact a boycott against Israeli goods? The news of yesterday: a large chain of grocery stores in Italy has refused to carry Israeli goods. Please uphold values of justice. Sincerely, ErinFlag
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Name: Ibrahim Soudy on May 24, 2010Comments: Is the US also a Zionist Occupied Territory?Flag
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Name: Lesley Ahmed on May 24, 2010Comments: "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing." Theodore Roosevelt "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.Flag
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Name: Jeff Siddiqui on May 24, 2010Comments: Please do not sell Israeli products as long as Israel is involved in occupation and dispossession of another people. Your decision to permit Israeli products on your shelves is most disheartening and does not encourage us to purchase from your store.Flag
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Name: Abdul-aleem Ahmed on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anne Gough on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Muhammad on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Janae Choquette on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mohammad Saleh on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mohammad Saleh on May 24, 2010Comments: They should surely stop selling goods from an occupierFlag
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Name: Anonymous on May 24, 2010Comments: I am a longtime member of the Central Coop and also a Middle East Peace Activist and a Jew. I support the boycott of Israeli products and hope that Madison Market will too. I have stayed a member of Central because of the consciousness and commitment to justice I have always found at the store. I hope you will continue to run the store in an open democratic way and allow for a continued discussion of this most important issue of human rights. Thank you, Sheila FoxFlag
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Name: Abdullah Al-Ghamdi on May 24, 2010Comments: Israel is destroying America's security and wants America to fight its wars-wake up.Flag
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Name: Imad Abi-Saleh on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peggy Wolf on May 24, 2010Comments: If anyone has any factual information contrary to what I am about to write, please do me the huge favor of bringing it to my attention. Otherwise, please answer for what this means to you morally, ethically, politically and how that squares with your idea of being part of a natural food coop, one that once upon a time operated as a collective. Has there been violence from both sides that have hurt people on the other side? Of course. So to arrive at a clearer picture where you can distinguish one side's motives and character from the other, you have to put this mutual violence in context: context of history and context of fairness. Context of history reveals that those who escaped slaughter by the Nazis and moved to Palestine from Europe brought the Zionist mission of colonizing Palestine to become a Jewish state. Whether they would have felt justified in displacing and devastating another people so they could take this land away from them, had they not been so traumatized by the years of Hitler's rampage, I do not know. I like to think not, because I am a Jew and the Jewish ethic about how we honor others and the role we play in shining as humanitarians in the world - this is the Jewish identity I was raised on, and it is absolutely contradicted by the behavior of the zionists in their non-stop assaults on the Palestinians. The land wasn't empty when Zionists began to emmigrate in considerable numbers, but had a 1200+ yr. continual presence of Arabs. The Zionists came with the intention of taking over the land and went about buying up a lot of land from absentee Ottoman landlords and pushed the Palestinians off the land they had cultivated for generations, and of course there was plenty of killing. From those early days before "statehood" till now, there has been an unbroken history of the Zionists receiving hoards of money, weapons and other backing from the United States. So even though the Palestinians have indeed attacked the Israelis, there has been one aggressor in this tragic story from the very start, and that is the Zionists. Who cannot see that Palestine has been put in a self-defensive posture these decades? Who cannot see the bully that is Israel? The context of fairness reveals that Israel's arsenal and economy receives billions of dollars of support each year from the US government, while Palestine receives nothing of that sort from anyone. Israel is considered one of the military giants of the world, while Palestine is nowhere near as endowed with weapons of war. Israel dominates the land and much of the natural resources, all of which was the domain of the Palestinians prior to the Zionists' colonial aggression. While just one life is too many to lose to violence, the statistics of wounded and dead and displaced are grossly higher, on the Palestinian side. The Israelis oppress the Palestinians in ways that the Palestinians are incapable of doing to the Israelis due to their power imbalance, such as completely disrupting everyday life with all the checkpoints, denying Palestinians basic human necessities such as medical supplies, continuing to erect new "settlements" for Israelis to take over more and more of the precious little Palestinian territory that remains, making it very difficult for families to stay together, bulldozing homes, shooting children dead who throw stones, killing international observers, etc. etc. There is no parity whatsoever in this struggle, and anyone who describes it in such terms is either devilishly ill-informed or unbelievably wicked or mentally ill. When I was a little girl, Golda Meir told us Israel was a land without a people for a people without a land. That was a huge and vicious lie. All my life, I have been hearing that saying about how the Arabs are constantly plotting to push all the Israelis into the sea. Everyone's probably heard that. Israel gets a lot of mileage from that, that and the fact that if you say one critical thing about Israel, you must hate Jews. It's time, way past time, to stop buying into this cruel deception. If anyone's trying to push anyone into the sea, it's the other way around - just look at the history, the numbers, etc. I have lost count of how many United Nations Resolutions condemning Israel there have been, and the US media covers all that up so most people aren't even aware. The Israeli government is barbarian and the Palestinians are living and dying through a long nightmare of relentless torture. Please, if I'm mistaken, show me. Raising up a coop to bring healthy choices to the people is a political statement in this age of corporate robbery and toxic consumption. Participating in a coop implies a value of love and fairness and respect and justice. When aggregates of power as large as a country or major corporations commit crimes against humanity as Israel does, it is our duty to stand up and fight against that. Boycott is sometimes the most effective way. I have been a Central Coop member since 1983. I want my coop to boycott Israeli goods, and I want us to do it in the most effective way possible, accompanied by public education about why and encouragement to fellow merchants to follow suit. Thank you, Peggy Wolf, member #4408Flag
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Name: Rochelle Gause on May 24, 2010Comments: As a friend of Rachel Corrie's, I have traveled to the Gaza Strip twice, most recently living in Rafah for two months in 2006. The conditions the people are forced to live in are unconscionable. If anyone discussing this issue would spend one week in the Gaza Strip they would be horrified that this treatment of human beings is occurring today, carried out by the state of Israel and funded by our tax dollars. I have studied this issue closely and am a strong proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Movement. Please take a stand for human rights and international law, and most importantly for the children of Gaza, who are unable to leave and being starved by the border closures, and implement the boycott. As long as our government fails to sanction Israel for its misbehavior, WE, the people, must use the non violent weapon of Boycott. This is the only way that peace and safety will come to Palestinians and Israelis alike. I am certain that we will look back on this time as we look back now on South African Apartheid, wishing only that we, as the international community, had acted sooner.Flag
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Name: Nasir Junejo on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sid Jordan on May 24, 2010Comments: another member in support of the boycottFlag
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Name: Samuel Scharff on May 24, 2010Comments: CONCUR!Flag
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Name: Deborah Brown on May 24, 2010Comments: I am opposed to what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. I have been a member of Madison Market for many years and I support the boycott of Israeli products.Flag
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Name: Johan Genberg on May 24, 2010Comments: I fully support the petition. Israel's crimes are well documented by human rights groups, the UN and the International Court of Justice. After the latest attack on Gaza, and the ongoing blockade and intentional starvation of 1.5 million people, the brutality of the occupation has never been more obvious. My own experience from visiting both Palestine and Israel reconfirms the human rights reports. We need to send the state of Israel a strong message that the apartheid state is not acceptable, the occupation has to end for the sake of a more humane future for Palestinians and Israelis alike.Flag
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Name: Farhana Satti on May 24, 2010Comments: -- DEMAND AN END TO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR ISRAEL AND FOR THOSE WHO DEFEND ISRAELI CRIMES. -- SUPPORT A BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI GOODS. --DEMAND THAT CENTRAL COOP ALLOW THE DISCUSSION OF BOYCOTT TO CONTINUE.Flag
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Name: Andrew Meyer on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jen Marlowe on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Rena Klein on May 24, 2010Comments: I have been a member of the Central Coop for over 20 years, and i am Jewish. i strongly support the boycott as described in this petition.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Roger Lippman on May 24, 2010Comments: Let's move ahead on the process of informing members about Israeli products that the Co-op carries, and how those products are based on Israeli theft of Palestinian lands and oppression of Palestinian people. Also, let's not let outside pro-Israel forces intimidate the Co-op or take over the conversation. Roger Lippman Founding board memberFlag
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Name: Edward Mast on May 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Zakaria M Chida on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: James Smothers on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Min. W.D. Patterson on May 25, 2010Comments: <i>"The time has come to hold the State of Israel accountable for ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people and to demand equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis." <i> This only makes for good morals, ethical, and common sense. One cannot have his cake and eat it too. Israel has taken and taken the best of both worlds and given back nothing but pain and torment. There comes a time when all good things must come to and end.Flag
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Name: Beverly Stuart on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jane Cutter on May 25, 2010Comments: Please let the discussion of boycotting Israeli goods continue.Flag
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Name: Jirius Isaac on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Rizwan Nazarali on May 25, 2010Comments: I truly believe that human beings need to be treated equally. What is going on in Israel is barbaric. Words cannot describe the atrocities being committed by the occupied government of Israel, yet the business world supports it one way or the other. It is high time for the business world to start voting with their dollars in order to stop these barbaric acts committed by the Israelis over the Palestinians and start fostering the peace movement so that everyone lives with dignity and honor in their own land. For this reason, I am urging you to boycott Israeli products and things that enable and empower them to carry on their atrocities. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Rula Borelli on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Emma Klein on May 25, 2010Comments:Flag