Palestine, Produce, Principles
On April 21st, 2026, PSFC Members for Palestine hosted a virtual panel discussion on the Park Slope Food Coop's role in the worldwide BDS movement.
They were joined by scholar, activist, and Professor of Literature at Brooklyn College Moustafa Bayoumi; Greene Hill Food Coop member and BDS activist August Bridgeford; and reporter Jasper Nathaniel (based in Brooklyn, reports from the Occupied West Bank, @infinite_jaz).
About the panelists
- Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror (NYU Press), which was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The Progressive magazine and also won the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. He is the co-editor (with Andrew Rubin) of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage), which has been reissued in an expanded edition as The Selected Works of Edward Said (1966-2006). An accomplished journalist as well as a professor of literature, Bayoumi has written forThe New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other places. He writes a regular column for The Guardian on politics and culture.
- August Bridgeford is a community organizer and BDS activist. He has been a member of the Greene Hill Food Coop since 2017 and co-chairs the Membership committee.
- Jasper Nathaniel is a Brooklyn-based writer and reporter. He covers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and other political and cultural affairs on infinitejaz.com.
About PSFC Members for Palestine
PSFC Members for Palestine is a group of Park Slope Food Coop member-owners organizing in solidarity with Palestine and towards a boycott of Israeli products. Members who wish to support and follow the campaign can sign our petition.
