Posted on 10/30/2024 10:58:22 PM PDT by KingofZion
A man says he was kicked out of a coffee shop in North Oakland because he was wearing a Star of David hat.
"You're being asked to leave. You're causing a disruption. This is a private business. You're being asked to leave," the owner of Jerusalem Coffee House at 54th Street and Telegraph Avenue told Jonathan Hirsch as Hirsch recorded the confrontation on Saturday afternoon.
"This gentleman asked me to leave because of my hat," Hirsch can be heard saying on the video.
The owner responded, "This is a violent hat, and you need to leave."
"My hat is violent?" Hirsch asked.
"Yes," the owner said.
In an interview with KTVU on Tuesday, Hirsch said, "I wear this hat all the time. I mean, I've had this hat for years. And it means a lot to me. It's meant a lot more over the last year." The dispute got more heated.
"Are you a Zionist?" the owner asked Hirsch repeatedly.
"I don't have to identify myself," Hirsch answered.
"Get out!" the owner said.
*** Jeremy Russell, spokesman for the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area, said, "This is one of the most clear-cut cases of anti-Jewish discrimination that I have seen in the Bay Area."
Russell said this isn't the first time the cafe has raised eyebrows.
Earlier this month, it introduced a new menu, including a drink called "Iced in Tea Fada," named after "intifada," or Palestinian uprising.
David Levine, professor at UC Law San Francisco said, "To deny somebody service in a place of public accommodation on the basis of what here sure looks like religion, national origin and the like, is simply not allowed under state law."
Hirsch said he may take legal action.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And this is in the “Jerusalem Coffee House?”
Not well named, is it?
And takes the cause so seriously to come up with cutesy intifada-related product names? Oy! What a schmuck!
From oaklandvoices.us
>>Oakland’s Jerusalem Coffee House, celebrating Palestinian culture, marked its first anniversary amid both community support and backlash over menu items that some view as politically provocative.
There it is, celebrating Palestinian...
My first thought also. And how ironic, its name is the "City of Peace". Shalom, Salam, what the heck is wrong with these people, sigh, don't answer that....
RE: Jerusalem Coffee House....
But there is an independent Haifa Falafel restaurant near me. The owner makes what he says are authentic foods of northwestern Israel——but from Arabs such as himself who lived there. Not Jewish.
The owner needs a punch in the face from a human and a dispatch from the Lord. It's unbelievable how ignorant of the truth the leftists are.
Can’t make this up, right?
The problem with them is they're still on this earth.
Next year, in Jerusalem.
looks like they were playing bakery faggot
There’s a Jerusalem Cafe in the big city near here - don’t know that it’s the same guys BUT it is definitely Islamic
Muslims often do “Jerusalem Cafe” of some version
It’s to supplant the Jewish claim to the city from 1004 B.C.
1996 was the 3,000 year anniversary
The “City of Peace” shall see the ACTUAL Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ before there is actual peace under His Lordship. (for the thread)
Zechariah 12:1-3 King James Version
1 The burden of the Word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the Earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a Cup of Trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a Burdensome Stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the Earth be gathered together against it.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+12%3A1-3&version=KJV
IOW I’m only saying what you already know - I might have been as clear as mud, LOL
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