A frightening acene unfolded in Philadelphia on Sunday night, when a Jewish owned restaurant was targeted by a mob of Hamas terror supporters.
During a demonstration with hundreds of protesters marching through Center City, the crowd halted in front of Goldie, an Israeli-style falafel eatery owned by a Jewish restaurateur.
Video footage shared online depicts the crowd chanting slogans like “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!”
Additionally, witnesses reported that protesters affixed “Free Palestine” and “This is Genocide” stickers to the restaurant’s facade.
Goldie is part of the CookNSolo group, co-owned by Israeli-born Michael Solomonov, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Governor Josh Shapiro condemned the protest: ‘Tonight in Philly, we saw a blatant act of antisemitism – not a peaceful protest,’ said Shapiro, the state’s third-ever Jewish governor.
‘A restaurant was targeted and mobbed because its owner is Jewish and Israeli. This hate and bigotry is reminiscent of a dark time in history.’
Shapiro added that he’s reached out to Solomonov ‘to share our support and Lori and I look forward to breaking bread there with them again soon.’
U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, representing Philadelphia in Congress, denounced the harassment, saying, “I can’t believe I have to say this, but targeting businesses solely because they are Jewish-owned is reprehensible. Philadelphia stands against this kind of harassment and hate.”
These incidents occurred at the same time that a group of students at the University of Pennsylvania – where anti-Semitic threats were recently projected onto school buildings – went viral for calling for an ‘intifada’.
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This is very scary times
ולנו אין לנו לסמוך אלא על אבינו שבשמים
May we be זוכה to חנוכה נסים anew – בימים ההם בזמן הזה
Any arrests, or just anotgher bunch of public statements?
Note that the restaurant in question is open on Shabbos. This should scare the frei Jews, who tend to be loyal Democrats, since it shows that the new wave of anti-Semitism unleashed by the left wing Democrats, targets them as well as us. When the focus was attacking Jewish education or fraudulent charges against prominent Yidden or institutions, the frei Jews smiled. They celebrated the pogrom in Crown Heights. Now the secular Jews are seeing that it is all Jews, not just ones with streimels, who are the target for the anti-Semitic left.
It looks like the “protest” had police escort. Why would the police allow chants for long live the intifada?
The terror supporting “protests” all have common threads- violence, vandalism, and viciousness
My first reaction when I read this was “there are no words”. But then 2 words did come to mind, “sick animals”.
When Jews finally begin to leave these Western countries that are being overrun by Muslims, the Muslims will turn their hateful attention to the non Jews who remain.
We will watch from EY as the West crumbles from within, victim of it’s own misguided policies.
Elections have consequences.
Arm yourselves
were was the Philadelphia Police Department.
If Governor Josh Shapiro was really concerned , he would have state police and the national guard on call ready to move in and stop this nonsense.
Pro Palestinian Hamas supporters need to learn what “projection” means. Who exactly is striving for genocide? Hashem Yishmor
Gear up for war
Fun fact:
Not a single one of those miscreant thugs voted for Trump. Not a single one of them voted for a Republican member of Congress.
Don’t these useful idiots students realize that they also should be raped, tortured, beheaded, burned alive and slaughtered along with all non-Muslims according to Hamas?
Arm yourself
Train yourself
Protect yourself
The cops aren’t going to spill black blood to protect the oppressor colonialists.
The Midwest is affordable, conservative and the Muslims are sparse. I would consider moving.
Where the heck are the riot police to break up these riots? This is not a question of free speech — there is no political rhetoric here and these places are not appropriate for public discourse — these are racist, anti-Semitic riots intended to incite violence. The appropriate response is for police in riot gear (shields, billy clubs, tear gas, rifles, etc.) to arrive in formation and then to charge at and arrest some rioters and disperse the rest. When the ringleaders are arrested, the mob will disappear. Law enforcement should never kowtow to bands of rabid baboons!