Remember, the protesters say they aren’t Jew haters, they just go after everything Jew
Israeli restaurant chain in DC hit by Gaza protests permanently closes
Shouk, a plant-based kosher street-food chain in Washington, D.C., permanently shut down its final locations this month in part due to protests and boycotts from anti-Israel activists.
Once featured by the Food Network and The Washington Post for its “Shouk Burger,” the chain had five stores in the region. The closures come after two years of protests and boycotts over the war in Gaza crippled the business.
Local activist group DC for Palestine led a boycott campaign that claimed the restaurant’s falafel and other menu items “appropriated” Palestinian cuisine and that the owners were “complicit in Israeli apartheid.”
Co-owner Dennis Friedman, a Jewish American who opened the first Shouk location over a decade ago with Israeli co-owner Ran Nussbacher, rejected those accusations. He said the mission of Shouk was to bring people together.
“I don’t agree with that because the intention of Shouk was pure, and good,” Friedman told Fox News Digital. “When my business partner came to me, it wasn’t ‘let’s make Israeli food.’ He wanted to make plant-based food that reminded him of his childhood and home. That was the core of where we started to build the recipes. For the most part, Shouk has been promoted as Mediterranean, plant-based, and Middle Eastern. Very rarely have we claimed anything else. That’s why Shouk is written in both Arabic and Hebrew in all the stores — because we are a place to bring everyone together.”
He called Shouk “a gathering place for people of all races, colors, and creeds to come together to enjoy food,” that was good for customers and the planet.
I’m suspecting that the owners of Shouk are good little Democrat voters, who just learned that Democrats and the Islamists Democrats brought in to the US hate them. Shouk doesn’t have a website I could find, but, their twitter feed has all sorts of left win stuff, like hating the Supreme Court decision on abortion.
While he said business was booming before Oct. 7, the protests quickly started tanking their income.
Friedman said they reached out to local business groups and representatives and hired security outside their stores, calling the experience of being harassed by protesters over the past two years “scary and unnerving.”
“We had everything from little children coming into the store during a busy lunch screaming ‘Free Palestine’ while their parents videoed for social media,” he said. He said the protests were part of a “very coordinated” and successful “effort by the BDS to hurt Shouk.”
These are your people. You vote with them. And their abject hatred of all Israel and Jews. I feel for the owners, and all the employees, but, if you support the people who hate you don’t be surprised when they turn on you
They’ve forgotten.
According to 2020 census Muslims make up 1.34% of the population of the USA
This apparently puts great stress and concern onto the life of Mr Teach.
Of course that is the national average. Locally? Well Muslim population in Raleigh is estimated at 4 to 10% JESUS GUCKIN CHRIST !!! T that is 2 to 5 times higher than DC.
Panic Mode!! Red Alert Red Alert !
That fuckin Triangle it brought all the wrong types to NC. Smarties. Muslims. Gays. All voting Dem. Now I can better understand the stresses that Teach must live under.
20% of the triangle having advanced degrees. The triangle voted 66% Dem.Damn Dem smarties.
Teach what percent of your car buyers got into one of those groups?
Teach s surrounded
No wonder Teach is terrified, he probably sees Muslims every day.
WTF are you jabbering about, johnnie boy?
Did you share your hookah with Rimjob this morning?
I was fortunate to be born with a strong allergy to nicotine so never was addicted to or used to tobacco. You just never sefm to be able to successfully insult me!
Puppy boy are you afraid of migrants ? Remember my post about NYC ? We have 37% foreign born but a homicide rate lower than most states. And of course in general cities do have a higher rate than other areas our homicide rate this year will come in about at 4 per 100000. That is about 40% less than the national average.
And NYC suicide rate is more than 50% lower. And life span? because of multiple reasons we live longer than ANY state.
Data shows that most people are misinformed about life in NYC. care to tell us about YOUR city or state ?
Was it over run by migrants? Drug gangs? Military aged migrant men ? Are those stresses aging you? Just how bad does your life suck?
It isn’t going to change. Trump is not your new Jesus.
JUST DONT FIGHT IT!! EMBRACE THE SUCK
Getting to ya, huh johnnie boy?
Does EMBRACE THE SUCK hit too close to home CumBreath?
Gettin to ya, huh CumBreath?
“Afraid of migrants….” Johnny boy-we almost never talk of “migrants” here, because that would include those here legally. We’re talking about illegal immigrants, obviously. Please keep up
Jill,
The regime has declared war on even several categories of legal immigrants. Students, asylum seekers, refugees, Green card holders, work visa holders, Temporary Protected Status holders, DACA recipients…
BTW, since “the law is the law”, how many employers of your so-called “illegals” been prosecuted?
None are “illegals”. Try to keep up, young lady.
Poor J-still can’t read. I said nothing about who DHS goes after or doesn’t go after. I said that when we talk of immigration, it’s usually illegal immigration. That is true.
However, a recent rule, the Asylum Processing Rule, made it more difficult for asylum seekers who cross illegally to be eligible for asylum. So in other words, they’re going after those they consider not eligible for asylum. Simple. They also moved to end a “parole” program CHNV (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans) put in place by Biden, which affects the status the legal status and work authorization for thousands. Funny-“declared war”. AKA, following the law
In our country treaties and treaty obligations come before both state and federal law.