Brooklyn,
NY – Four Park Slope Food Co-Op members who were suspended from the group
for disrupting a presentation on boycotting Israeli products vow to keep up
their fight — and are planning to sue the group.
Co-op
members Alan Ettlinger, Rhudi Andreolli, Milldred Rutner and Sharon Eagle were
suspended for a year by a unanimous vote of a jury of other co-op members. The
decision, which was made in April but only reported this week, bars the four
from entering the co-op or attending any of its events.
Rutner
called the hearing a “kangaroo court” and said that they had already spoken to
an attorney who had agreed to take the case. No legal papers have been filed.
“The hearing
that we had was grossly unfair,” she said. “They were supposed to be impartial.”
Andreolli
also believes that they were unfairly targeted by co-op members who support BDS
when they were merely standing up against antisemitism.
“We stood up
to these bullies and these lies and propaganda and we got shot down,” said
Andreolli.
