Philadelphia protesters circle Jewish chef's falafel restaurant: 'You can't hide!'

Fucking idiots - they should be charged with intimidation and a hate crime.

Meanwhile - REPUBLICANS are trying to overthrow our democracy, but NO - let's go protest a falafel place?

So fucking stupid.

I bet they picked this because they believe falafel is a middle-eastern food and he's appropriating the middle eastern arab culture while being Jewish. This is how the dumb left sometimes think.

I'm a progressive liberal - but JFC some of these younger idiots are pissing me off. NOT HELPING!!!

These people are out of control. What the hell does some random American chef in Philadelphia who happens to be Jewish have to do with the actions of the Israeli government on the other side of the world?

[quote] Meanwhile - REPUBLICANS are trying to overthrow our democracy, but NO - let's go protest a falafel place?

Yes Defacto, harassing a falafel guy is going to lead to oppressive dictatorship — certainly not a losing candidate inciting a mob to storm Congress and take lawmakers hostage.

There really is no bottom to your pit of idiocy, is there? You never hear the rock plop, it just falls and falls and falls.

If conducting yourself like this is what constitutes as woke. I’ll say fuck you.

I’m sure the protest of the felafel place will change many minds. ..To go from indifference to downright hate of the protestors.

Yeah, protesting falafel vendors and disrupting Christmas events is really going to win over American hearts and minds.

R5 - why were they protesting against the guy and chanting, "Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide," which is essentially intimidation and can be scary? And OP also mentioned the windows of the restaurant were vandized.

R5 = FF

Goldie?

Oh that's the restaurant's name, never mind

R5 oh fuck off. They were there to intimidate but go ahead and act like this was just a quiet candle light vigil.

I was just asked today what I wanted from Goldbelly. It will be something from a Michael Solomonov restaurant. Goldie's isn't on the Goldbelly list, but Zahav is his preeminent Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia.

Disgusting shitbags.

The optics of this are so bizarre, I’m sorry, could this be a false flag operation by Mossad? Antiwar protesters singling out a falafel restaurant? Why would they know the owner is Israeli? I protested the Iraq war in the Aughts, we never did anything like this.

Yeah, that cultural appropriation bullshit is just that: bullshit.

These people have no relationship with the issue, they're the same empty headed fools who variously self-identify autistic, hey maybe trans, but hey BLM and now Intifada, full Gestapo. Did I miss a cause? Where will the wind blow this trash next?

The fact that David Frum inserted himself into this makes me suspect False Flag. I don’t believe protestors would legitimately pursue the tactic of harassing Jewish-owned businesses. This seems specifically designed to make people associate the protesters with anti-Jewish violence of prewar Germany.

I’m sorry, this has to be Mossad.

All is fair in (love and) war.

Tell it to the Palestinian kid who was shot in Vermont, and is now paralyzed.

All he was doing was having Thanksgiving dinner with family.

This is insanity

It’s not a false flag ffs. Some people really love a sentimental narrative.

I read in the other thread about the 15,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, someone here posted, "Oh, you can't believe them."

But we're supposed to believe Israel?

Please. They're liars on both sides.

I don't believe either of them.

[quote]I don’t believe protestors would legitimately pursue the tactic of harassing Jewish-owned businesses.

Yes, they've shown themselves to be very strategic and level-headed.

Who's the propagandist who keeps hollering "False Flag?" If anything, this was a Tik Tok scrum started by some 19-year old blue haired "queer" from a neighboring college.

Protesting at a televised event like the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting is something protesters would have done in the Iraq war

Targeting a Jewish owned business is not. The fact that the owner is an Israeli dove makes it more suspicious.

Insanity

So much for William Penn's dream of the City of Brotherly Love.

"The city was named by its founder, William Penn, who envisioned a city of religious tolerance where no one would be persecuted."

R22 - but what does what you posted have to do with targeting a Jewish-owned business in Philly?

[quote]The optics of this are so bizarre, I’m sorry, could this be a false flag operation by Mossad? Antiwar protesters singling out a falafel restaurant? Why would they know the owner is Israeli? I protested the Iraq war in the Aughts, we never did anything like this.

ARE THE JEWS BEHIND ANTI JEWISH RACIST PROTESTS!!!!!

The guy supposedly donates to the IDF.

Re: R30:

That excuse is something MAGAts would use to surround someone's business or house who they claimed donated to Biden or Planned Parenthood.

It's absolutely vile behavior.

Do those scarves come in blue and white? That could be fun—no one would know what you meant.

The Bernie Left fauxgressives instigating their own Kristallnacht!

So much progress!

Any Justice Dems hiding in the Democratic Party have any comments? Yeah, I thought not.

R31, it’s apparently public record. He’s Israeli. It’s not unthinkable. Many Israelis do and he’s a loaded philanthropist. Now, the question then becomes, is it morally wrong to donate to the IDF? Americans donate to veteran charities. Do we blame veterans for atrocities or the government? Hell, Americans donate to IRA.

Rational people know that these people are performative jackasses. I think we’re reaching peak progressivism. The DSA is a fringe organization. Marxism fucks with people’s minds. Miss Sarandon isn’t an anomaly.

Peaceful protests, ahh...

Just remember who has the buying power in this country.

And while we worry about trifles like this, the hardcore evangelical Republicans and the growing Islamic movement will split us in half. Someone should be mediating between Israel and Palestine. And in America we have to keep the Islamic threat in check. Separation of church and state or we’re all going to be hanging by our thumbs, getting stoned by a few hundred crackpots or being executed. People have a right to choose and practice their religion as they see fit in America. But religious leaders have no business trying to control our votes, Christian nationalists or Muslims.

But y’all go ahead and harass a Jewish falafel shop…

Genocide meal!

Genocide meal!

Genocide meal!

Down down McDonalds!

The man who did Middle Eastern peace treaties was Jimmy Carter.

Hear, hear R37!

What the fuck are these people thinking?

This is like going to a taco joint because you don’t like migrants.

R22, was that within the past day or so?

Who ever posted that Hamas-reported death toll here said it was “15,550,980” or something like that— they typed out 15 million and some odd hundreds of thousands. It was an eight-digit number with three commas. I have dyscalculia and even I knew that was wrong. That couldn’t have been a typo. What a fucking idiot. No wonder so many Americans are so easily manipulated, they’ve been dumbed down to the point where they don’t catch a difference between fifteen thousand and fifteen million.

I believe that poster was making a point about the unreliability of Hamas estimates, R42.

Israel have been targeting Hamas bases, missile equipment and tunnels. Hamas are hiding in civilian areas which means the death toll is high.

There is no doubt that women and children are being killed but Hamas are the ones providing the figures and Hamas refuse to say how many deaths are of Hamas fighters. Conservative estimates are that 1000s of Hamas "soldiers" are dead.

[quote] Just remember who has the buying power in this country.

What’s that supposed to mean?

[quote]The guy supposedly donates to the IDF.

So fucking what? You can publicize that. You can say what you think about the man. But surrounding his store with an angry mob is not okay. They should have been arrested. Governor Shapiro tweeted that antisemitism is unacceptable. Awesome. If antisemitism is unacceptable, why did Philadelphia police accept it.

I eat old people’s excrement.

Oh OK, R43, that makes sense.

It was followed by comments like the ones you mentioned and I thought they were serious. It is hard to tell given the absurdity of so many of the pro-Hamas posts.

I’m glad you saw it at least— I was coping with insomnia when I read it in the wee hours. Today I couldn’t find it and I was starting to think I dreamt it.

r43, you are correct. I posted that, as that is how I understand it works at the Gaza Health Ministry Department of Statistics.

Thanks for the clarification, R49. I should have known.

R3 - I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

The left should be demonstrating against the stripping of rights (abortion, LGBT, voting - the list goes on) and our slow walk to dictatorship with the Republican party and Trump.

By no means did I say that protesting a falafel place would lead to dictatorship. I meant that this protest is misplaced energy - particularly targeting a Jewish business and yelling slurs.

The left is getting all riled up about Palestine and all of this energy would be better placed toward fighting the Republican regime.

The National Review has spoken.

The National Review is in no position to label anyone a psychopath.

Turns out the political climate at the restaurant had been unraveling for weeks before the high-profile episode, creating a situation for which the company has now apologized.

Two workers at Goldie said they were recently fired for wearing pro-Palestinian flag pins at work. They, along with three other current and former CookNSolo employees, told The Inquirer that the restaurant group had made a political statement on the conflict by hosting an Oct. 12 fundraiser for a nonprofit that provides aid to the Israeli military, misled employees about the nonprofit’s work, and then thrust workers into a politically difficult position for nearly two months.

The protesters’ brief stop at the falafel spot — where demonstrators chanted “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” — drew widespread rebuke and accusations of antisemitism from the local Jewish community up to the White House.

Gov. Josh Shapiro visited Goldie on Wednesday to show support for the restaurant that he alleged had been targeted solely due its Israeli and Jewish owners, chef Michael Solomonov and businessman Steve Cook, who operate a fleet of acclaimed eateries as CookNSolo.

“They don’t have a right to come and protest at restaurants simply because it’s owned by a Jew and hold that Jew responsible for Israeli policy,” Shapiro said. “That’s the definition of antisemitism.”

CookNSolo has not issued a public statement about the Sunday episode. But in a letter sent to staff members Wednesday, Solomonov and Cook addressed the fundraiser, the firings, and the simmering tensions within their restaurants since the war broke out.

Full article at link-

These people are exhausting

Hamilton, who is 23 and had worked at Goldie for more than two years, arrived back at work wearing a Palestine flag pin that she had made.

Two weeks later, management announced a new uniform policy. The only change: “No stickers, pins, patches etc besides those that are Goldie branded.”

After the policy was announced, Hamilton wore her pin to work and was sent home and told to take the following day off. She returned to work without the pin but by then, her coworker, Noah Wood, had begun wearing a Palestine flag pin on his hat. Hamilton didn’t discipline him.

I expect these lovely young people will lose their jobs and claim they were fired for "supporting Palestine" and not "harassing a Jewish customer".