NEW YORK — New York City last week issued a vacate order to a community garden that had barred Zionists, in an incident highlighting how tensions surrounding the war in Gaza have played out on the city’s streets. The Sunset Community Garden in Ridgewood, Queens, had required membership applicants to sign a “statement of values” that included opposition to Zionism, antisemitism, and “nationalist and/or racist beliefs.” The New York City Parks Department told the garden in April that the statement violated city guidelines by requiring members to pass political and ideological “litmus tests.” The garden had also gotten into a...
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