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Antisemitism in California cafés — a dark history of discrimination

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A man and his child were kicked out of a cafe because they were Jewish. Oakland, in 2024? Brooklyn, last week? Or Nazi Germany, 90 years ago? 

In Oakland, Abdulrahim Harara, owner of the Jerusalem Coffee House, allegedly ejected a Jewish man and his 5-year-old son last year because they were wearing baseball caps that had a Star of David in their design.

But what started in Oakland didn’t stop there.

In Brooklyn last week, Dan Goldman, a Democrat and Jewish member of Congress, and his 7-year-old daughter visited Poetica Coffee, a cafe in the tony Park Slope section of Brooklyn. That’s the neighborhood where a co-op grocery store recently voted to ban Israeli products.

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After discovering that the Goldmans had been in the cafe, Poetica Coffee owner Parviz Mukhamadkulov announced on social media that he was refunding their money and banning them from the premises because they are “genocide enablers.” (That’s a code word for “Jews.”)

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