Jew threatend at leftist minority food cooperative

[mord]

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/33058/format/html/displaystory.html

Friday July 20, 2007

Alleged anti-Jewish tirade at Rainbow sparks probe

by joe eskenazi
staff writer

“Paper or plastic?” is a checkout line conversation-starter David Alexander Nahmod has heard a million times.

But “Jews need to be killed, it’s the only way to get them off PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi land” and “You’re just a stupid Jew” are snippets he says he heard at the checkout line once — and that was enough.

Nahmod, a 51-year-old freelance writer and Sephardic Jew, recently filed a complaint with San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission claiming discrimination when a counterwoman at the Rainbow Grocery Cooperative allegedly showered him with anti-Semitic invective late last year.

Nahmod further claims that when he complained to customer relations about the incident, the attendant told him to leave him alone or he’d “whoop” him.

Rainbow officials declined to field j.’s numerous phone calls. One member of the store’s board abruptly hung up during a phone interview, while another demanded that an interview request be submitted in writing. It was. We then received a fax claiming Nahmod was banned from the store because of his “continued documented harrasment.”

Ed Ilumin, an officer at the Human Rights Coalition, said that if Nahmod’s complaint is true, Rainbow would be in violation of a San Francisco municipal code prohibiting discrimination by a business or public accommodation based on race, ethnicity or religion.

Thousands of dollars in fines could be levied against the store. In addition, the co-op could lose its city contracts. But the HRC’s most powerful weapon may be the negative publicity that comes with a finding of discrimination.

“Certainly it would be damaging for a business if we found willful discrimination conducted there,” Ilumin said. He expects the HRC to issue a decision by early August.

In 2002, Rainbow Grocery shocked the organized Jewish community when it announced that several of its departments were boycotting Israeli goods. After a month of protests — and harsh coverage in the local press — the store capitulated. Subsequent attempts to boycott Israeli goods were voted down by the store’s workers.

After writing an email to the store detailing his complaints and stating he would not be back, Nahmod received a phone message informing him the store’s steering committee had decided he was no longer welcome there.

Nahmod — who moved back to San Francisco in 2004 after a long absence — said he was unaware of Rainbow’s past anti-Israel behavior until after his run-in.

In the months since his spat with the store, he has talked to reporters at several local newspapers and TV stations but has been told his story is “not important.”

That has been frustrating, he acknowledges. He posits that if he had been discriminated against because he was black or gay, “it’d be on the 6 o’clock news and people would be running through the streets with banners that say ‘Stop the hate.’ But you call someone a ‘stupid Jew’ and it’s acceptable.

“Some of our self-serving proclamations about tolerance are not as true as we’d like to think,” he said.

Although Nahmod doesn’t want anyone fired or the store run out of business, he would like the checker he dealt with to “take anger management classes” and see Rainbow “shamed into being honest with themselves about their hypocrisy.”

Heres the stores site             



http://www.rainbow.coop/news/index.html

Rainbow IN THE NEWS:




Rainbow Grocery Cooperative Statement
Regarding Boycott on Israeli Goods



As you may be aware, an organization, BIG (Boycott Israeli Goods), has made public statements regarding Rainbow Grocery participating in a boycott on products from Israel. In order to clarify Rainbow Grocery's position on boycotting Israeli goods, we are releasing this statement to communicate to our clients and our community that there has been no decision to enact a boycott on Israeli products and to clarify the process by which any boycott would become enacted.

We are a democratically run workplace. Our policy is that the membership of Rainbow Grocery, comprised of all worker-owners, has to have a chance to discuss and vote on any proposed boycott. While there was some internal confusion among some workers about this policy when the issue first came up, the membership did vote on a proposal to boycott Israeli products in 2003. This proposal was defeated and no boycott was enacted.

In recent months, members of our communities, customers, and workers have suggested that Rainbow revisit the issue of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods. Any worker can begin the process of voting on a boycott by following the procedures we established. As of March 2007, no worker has brought forth a proposal to institute a boycott. We have had discussions as to whether we should institute a boycott, but as of now, the process to boycott products has not begun.

Recently we have become aware that groups in support of a boycott of Israeli goods have begun making public statements regarding Rainbow and a boycott of Israeli products. Some of these statements are misleading or contain inaccuracies about both the reasons why there is no boycott and the process by which we would institute a boycott. Specifically, in "An Open Letter to Rainbow Grocery" posted by the organization RBIG, there is mention that:

Rainbow shoppers are asking for an open debate on this question. Why won't Rainbow respond?...As regular shoppers at Rainbow, we have been asking the store to reconsider its position in support of a boycott of Israeli goods and are getting stonewalled."

To say that Rainbow Grocery is refusing to respond or is "stonewalling" is inaccurate and unfair. The worker-owners make decisions at Rainbow Grocery democratically, and with an opportunity for discussion and debate. As of now, none of Rainbow's worker-owners has brought the issue to a vote. While we understand that some members of our communities feel that Rainbow should institute a boycott, the decision must be made by the membership of Rainbow Grocery, according to the procedure that was adopted in 2003.

In the same letter, RBIG writes:

"Is Rainbow's financial success from a small coop on Mission Street to a major Bay Area store affecting the decision to boycott, a fear that taking such an action might affect the store's profits? If not, then what are the reasons? Are opposing groups pressuring you privately?"

The implication that Rainbow is making its decisions because of "opposing groups…pressure" or financial concerns is grossly inaccurate. Our decision as to whether or not to boycott anything is solely the outcome of a proposal by any worker and a vote from all of our (currently) 207 members. Our Board of Directors, which is charged with shepherding the collective's financial health, neither advises on nor decides on any boycott. Our success as a worker-owned and operated collective owes in large part to our ability to retain our own agency to run a grocery store in the cooperative manner that we believe best serves both our communities and our members.

Finally, RBIG writes:

"We have heard that when Rainbow discussed a boycott in 2003, the opposition threatened to poison the bulk bins. Is this what Rainbow is afraid of? That those anti-boycott forces will commit acts of terrorism against them if they boycott? Among us are Jewish people and we abhor such terror tactics reminiscent of the Zionist Irgun/Stern Gang in Israel which used violence, blackmail and extortion to get its way.

"What is Rainbow's commitment to the community? If such a threat occurred, why wasn't it made public? Keeping something like this quiet would protect rather than expose those who made such a threat to life even in this country. Your customers have a right to know about threats to our safety. You have a responsibility to tell us."

When Rainbow discussed a boycott of Israeli products in 2003, we certainly received a significant amount of attention from all sides of the issue - most of it negative. We reported any threats made, of course. We have stringent guidelines of what to do in the event that any sort of threat is received - whether it is in relation to our products, our store, or our customers. One of the fundamental values of Rainbow is the quality and safety of the food that we provide for our customers; nothing would ever compromise that.

It is our hope that members of our communities that are in favor of the adoption of a boycott of Israeli goods have a clearer understanding of our process and respect that ultimately this decision must be made by the over 200 members that collectively make up Rainbow Grocery.

If you have any other question or concerns regarding this issue, we urge you to address them to our elected Public Relations Committee.

Thank you for your understanding.












 



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Look at the pictures on the site

[Maccabi]

Friday July 20, 2007

But “Jews need to be killed, it’s the only way to get them off PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi land” and “You’re just a stupid Jew” are snippets he says he heard at the checkout line once — and that was enough.
 

anti-semitic hippies are among the lowest scum of the earth

[newman]

' rainbow' is just a fancy term meaning 'full of niggroes' isn't it?

[mord]

Yes

[kellymaureen]

ahhhh sanfranfreakshow....where its still the 60's and soap still hasnt been invented

[newman]

ahhhh sanfranfreakshow....where its still the 60's and soap still hasnt been invented

I kinda like some of the hippie stuff....mosly split window VW buses, Honda CB 450 'black bombers' and Mamas & the Papas music. The rest of it has worn really thin.

[mord]

ahhhh sanfranfreakshow....where its still the 60's and soap still hasnt been invented

I kinda like some of the hippie stuff....mosly split window VW buses, Honda CB 450 'black bombers' and Mamas & the Papas music. The rest of it has worn really thin.

YEA I LIKE SOME HIPPIE STUFF GO TO MYSPACE AND LOOK AT THE MUSIC VIDEOS I HAVE ALTHOUGH IT NOT LEFTIST

[HiWarp]

ahhhh sanfranfreakshow....where its still the 60's and soap still hasnt been invented

LOL.  Not to mention deodorant and razor blades.

[newman]

ahhhh sanfranfreakshow....where its still the 60's and soap still hasnt been invented

LOL.  Not to mention deodorant and razor blades.

.............or bikini wax!..........see the pics floating around....Whoa!!

[kellymaureen]

I was born in 75 so a little after the 60s...I DO like the Doors, but mostly 70s stuff...ok enough geeky secrets

[newman]

A fiend of mine who was in her teens in the 60s said if they'd realised then just how good they had it (full employment, good pay etc) they'd have stopped the clock.

[Ehud]

Yes this shows the anti-Jewish and pro affirmative action people's bias in the U.S.  If someone said, hey you, "we should kill all of you negros and get out of here you stupid negro" it would be on the national news, the individual would be charged with a hate crime, and Al Sharpton would be shown all over the media demanding that the worker resign, which would happen.  Then the black would file a claim in civil court for discrimination that "killed his will to work" and he would be compensated generously. 

[newman]

Yes this shows the anti-Jewish and pro affirmative action people's bias in the U.S.  If someone said, hey you, "we should kill all of you negros and get out of here you stupid negro" it would be on the national news, the individual would be charged with a hate crime, and Al Sharpton would be shown all over the media demanding that the worker resign, which would happen.  Then the black would file a claim in civil court for discrimination that "killed his will to work" and he would be compensated generously. 

But isn't that ALLWAYS how it goes. Niggroes can storm threw Crown Heights screaming "get the kikes" and the hate crime legislation is nowhere to be seen. Just see what happens if a mob of whities rampaged through Pig Stuy or Harlem shouting " get the ni_gers"........
 .......they'd call out the Nat'l Guard.

[MassuhDGoodName]

Re:  "...Although Nahmod doesn’t want anyone fired or the store run out of business, he would like the checker he dealt with to “take anger management classes” and see Rainbow “shamed into being honest with themselves about their hypocrisy.”

-The Jew "doesn't want anyone fired?" !
-The Jew "doesn't want the Nazi store run out of business"!
-The Jew wants the checker who told him "all Jews should be killed" to sign up for "anger management classes"!
-The Jew wants the Rainbow Cooperative "to be honest with themselves about their hypocrisy!"

-THIS JEW NAHMOD, IS CLEARLY THE ONE WHO IS INSANE IN THIS SCENARIO!

-HE IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL "GHETTO JEW", BEGGING AND SCRAPING "IN HOPES THAT THE GOYIM WILL FORGIVE HIM FOR TAKING OFFENSE AT THEIR INTENDED GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE"!

-NAHMOD SHOULD HAVE HIS ASS BEATEN BY OTHER JEWS FOR HIS CRIME OF NOT BEATING THE ASS OF THE ATTENDANT WHO INSULTED JEWS AND WISHED GENOCIDE UPON US, AND HE SHOULD BE FORCED TO GO BACK IN THAT PLACE AND "TEACH A FEW QUEERS A LESSON THEY'LL NEVER FORGET!"

-HEY JEWS AND GENTILES!....DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE ALL OF THIS "CO-OP RAINBOW NEW AGE QUEER SPIRITUAL CRAP IS A RECENT DEVELOPMENT EXCLUSIVE TO AMERICA?

-WRONG!  READ UP ON NAZI MINISTER RUDOLPH HESS AND YOU'LL SEE HOW THESE EXACT SAME MISCREANTS PERMEATED THE THIRD REICH 60 YEARS AGO!