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Oakland café ousts man over religious symbol on baseball hat
ktvu.com ^ | October 19, 2024 | Henry Lee

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Israel; US: California
KEYWORDS: hamas; hate; jew; violenthat; zionist
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Sometimes the trial lawyers are useful. The Hamas-loving owner is going to be sued into bankruptcy for violating the Unruh Act.
1 posted on 10/30/2024 10:58:22 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

Watch this video of the encounter:

https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1851799271739396305


2 posted on 10/30/2024 10:59:01 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

And this is in the “Jerusalem Coffee House?”


3 posted on 10/30/2024 11:05:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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And this is in the “Jerusalem Coffee House?”

Not well named, is it?

4 posted on 10/30/2024 11:10:50 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: hinckley buzzard

And takes the cause so seriously to come up with cutesy intifada-related product names? Oy! What a schmuck!


5 posted on 10/30/2024 11:10:55 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: KingofZion; All

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...


6 posted on 10/30/2024 11:11:16 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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https://oaklandvoices.us/2024/10/28/jerusalem-coffee-house-oakland-palestine/


7 posted on 10/30/2024 11:12:22 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: hinckley buzzard
> And this is in the “Jerusalem Coffee House?”

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....

8 posted on 10/30/2024 11:12:48 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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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.


9 posted on 10/30/2024 11:31:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: KingofZion
"Are you a Zionist?" the owner asked Hirsch repeatedly.

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.

10 posted on 10/30/2024 11:39:40 PM PDT by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Can’t make this up, right?


11 posted on 10/30/2024 11:40:23 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: dayglored
...what the heck is wrong with these people

The problem with them is they're still on this earth.

12 posted on 10/30/2024 11:47:21 PM PDT by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Next year, in Jerusalem.


13 posted on 10/30/2024 11:54:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: KingofZion

looks like they were playing bakery faggot


14 posted on 10/30/2024 11:59:24 PM PDT by conserv8 (. . . a wet paper book . . . )
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To: KingofZion

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


15 posted on 10/31/2024 12:00:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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They should hire Democrat Kamala Harris. She can throw out the born-again Christians just like she had done at her abortion rally.

Democrat Kamala Harris immediately freaking out over "Jesus is Lord!" is absolutely a clear warning to REAL Christians





Do NO harm Christians but pray, pray, pray!!!






16 posted on 10/31/2024 12:04:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dayglored

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


17 posted on 10/31/2024 12:06:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dayglored

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


18 posted on 10/31/2024 12:27:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dayglored
Oh, and I know you already know, so....

/preaching to the choir


19 posted on 10/31/2024 12:28:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dayglored

IOW I’m only saying what you already know - I might have been as clear as mud, LOL


20 posted on 10/31/2024 12:29:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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