Article: Middle East unrest hits grocery store

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 Israel at the same time as pressure is ...