Article: Middle East unrest hits grocery store

Strasburg, Jenny
Arab American News
12-13-2002
The tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have spilled into the aisles
of a San Francisco supermarket, where certain departments of the co-op
Rainbow Grocery have removed Israeli-made products from their shelves.

Although Israeli products remain on the shelves of other Rainbow
departments, which are run independently, some workers are pushing for a
storewide boycott, an employee of the Mission District store said Tuesday.

The existing partial ban on Israeli-made goods, imposed by the proprietors
of Rainbow's packaged-food and bulk-food departments, is causing
controversy both inside and outside the Folsom Street store. It's angering
supporters of ...