NYC yanks license for anti-Israel Queens community garden that forced members to side with marginalized Palestinians

The city has yanked the license of a woke community garden in Queens that forced members take a pledge in “solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized people” of Palestine — but the “radicals” behind the space are defiantly vowing to resist the order.The Parks Department revoked the license May 5, eight months after The Post first reported about the Sunset Community Garden, on Onderdonk and Willoughby avenues in Ridgewood and which had a special section called “Poppies for Palestine.”The garden’s 10 “community agreements” — which ironically included a commitment to interrupt “violent behavior or rhetoric that expresses all forms of hate” — breached Parks guidelines, leading to the license’s termination, the agency said.“Parks informed the garden that their membership requirements were not compliant, as they required prospective members to affirm the group’s political and ideological viewpoints as laid out in the Community Agreements,” the agency said.The property must be cleared out by June 6.Garden organizers raged on Instagram that they are “being shut down by racist transphobes and zionists,” but are undeterred, launching an online petition to save the garden and accusing the city of “wrongful termination” of its license.“We’re being singled out for honoring trans legacy, our no tolerance to hateful rhetoric, standing against genocide, and refusing to back down in the face of complaints from a politically connected, bigoted neighbor,” according to the group, which said the city was “using retaliatory tactics and weaponizing bureaucracy.”The group is threatening “legal and direct action” against the city and asking supporters to call their local representatives in a bid to reverse its ouster.Garden organizer Laura Merrick did not return a request for comment.The garden opened in September 2023, started as a non-political endeavor but was “hijacked by crazies,” about seven months later, Christina Wi...