ELDER OF ZIYON (Elderofziyon.blogspot.com 25-11-24)
I heard secondhand about a high end supermarket in Seattle closing its kosher section after October 7 2023. So I looked up whether there were any reports about this, and I found a Reddit discussion on this very topic from last June.
A woman from Maryland wrote about her local Wegman's:
My local grocery store used to have a well-marked kosher section in the middle of their store. It wasn’t big, but you could find it pretty easily. My husband went out to the store this evening and said it’s completely disappeared, with the kosher section now having been moved discreetly to a smaller section in the baked goods area, almost entirely hidden behind another display- like they’re *** embarrassed to be making kosher food available. We’re living in a *** twilight zone, you guys
Others chimed in, including from Seattle:
The kosher section of two stores I've been to in my area have disappeared. I'm in Seattle and when I went to QFC it was just gone. I asked where it was because the aisle it used to be in changed the whole row so thought maybe it had just been shifted. The workers seemed evasive and said "maybe it's with the other things" from the old aisle. It wasn't. I found the remains of the section on the clearance rack. It's just gone.
Another said:
The kosher sections have disappeared from a Fred Meyer and my QFC in Seattle. I was heartbroken.
This does not feel like a widespread problem, yet. The Seattle QFC being discussed appears to be in an area that is heavily "progressive," other QFCs in the Seattle area have full kosher sections including meats and sushi.
Nevertheless, it is definitely concerning that some stores either want to boycott kosher products themselves - or feel that making kosher products visible would result in their being attacked.
Needless to say, this is antisemitism, not "anti-Zionism." And it shows how the wave of protests affects the daily lives of ordinary Jews.
